Content Archive: April 2011

Aircraft

Southwest Returns To Full Schedule, Finds Cracks in Two More 737-300s

Southwest Airlines returned to its regular schedule today after finishing
Aircraft

AIN Blog: Warning: Airliner Lavatories no Longer Have O2 Supply

The FAA is abdicating its safety responsibility.

AF447's Airbus A330 wreckage found

The fourth campaign to fi
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Aircraft

Hole in Southwest Jet To Prompt Boeing Service Bulletin

Boeing plans to issue a Service Bulletin to describe inspection techniques for Boeing 737s similar to the Southwest Airlines 737-300 whose fuselage skin ru
Engines

Lufthansa Picks Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G for Its Airbus A320neos

Evidence of the warm reception that Airbus A320 customers are giving the Pratt & Whitney’s Geared TurboFan engine mounted still further today, as Lufthansa
Aircraft

FAA To Mandate Fuselage Fatigue Inspections for Certain 737s

The FAA plans to issue an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) tomorrow that will require operators of specific early Boeing 737 models to conduct initia

Gulfstream G650 Test Airplane Crashes in New Mexico

A Gulfstream G650 flight-test airplane crashed today at 9:30 a.m.
Aircraft

Southwest Grounds 79 Jets after Emergency Landing

Southwest Airlines has grounded 79 (not 81 as was previously reported) of its Boeing 737s as it began working with Boeing and the NTSB to determine the cau
FBOs

2011 FBO Survey – The Americas: State of the FBO Industry

Printable version of the FBO Report, FBO Ratings and Readers Comments For
Regulations and Government

Business groups join fight against Barr limits

by Paul Lowe Although the words aviation and security usually conjure images of terrorists trying to do bad things to airliners, the FAA’s pr