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A plane carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members has crashed in mountains in China A Boeing 737 plane carrying 132 passengers has crashed in mountains in China. The China Eastern Airlines aircraft was travelling from Kunming in the western province of Yunnan to the industrial centre of Guangzhou along the east coast on Monday when it crashed and caused a fire on the mountains. The jet involved in the accident was a Boeing 737 aircraft and the number of casualties onboard flight MU5735 was not immediately known. Villagers were first to…

China to sanction US businesses and individuals, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, over arm sales to China’s Taiwan, FM spokesperson announced Monday pic.twitter.com/8oAZmAQu1t — People’s Daily, China (@PDChina) October 26, 2020 The State Department last week approved $1.8 billion in new weapons for Taiwan and submitted the package to Congress for a final review. The submission comes two months after the U.S. and Taiwan completed the sale of 66 new model F-16 Block 70 aircraft from Lockheed, and as tensions between the two superpowers continue to escalate ahead of…

A Southwest Airlines jetliner hit and killed someone as it landed at Austin’s main airport Thursday night, authorities said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the pilot of Flight 1392 reported seeing a person on the runway shortly after the Boeing 737 touched down at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport at 8:12 p.m. local time. The carrier said the pilot maneuvered to try to avoid the person, whose identify wasn’t immediately released. The driver of an airport operations vehicle subsequently reported finding the person on the runway. Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services said…

An aircraft had to make an emergency landing after one engine caught fire and the other stalled due to a fuel additive error, a report has found. The plane took off from Gatwick Airport on 26 February after an engineer using an internet calculator added 37 times too much of the chemical, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said. The Airbus A321 was being moved from Gatwick Airport to Stansted Airport at the time. There were seven crew members on board, but no passengers. The amount of Kathon – which…

The FAA has issued a further airworthiness directive to operators of the A220. The US aviation safety regulator now requires operators of A220 aircraft in US airspace to remove certain full-authority digital engine control software and install new software. The directive comes after four in-flight shutdowns last year. The FAA considers this a serious safety issue This latest directive concerning the A220 follows an earlier directive issued in September 2019 after a series of engine shutdowns in the skies over Europe. According to a report in Flight Global, three of these…

I don’t think that #United’s #B767 touchdown was particularly hard. Looked very normal to me. Hard to tell as the video cuts to the next jet, but he very likely went around afterwards applying a balked landing maneuver. Wings level, power up & Go-around attitude. No biggie. https://t.co/hhIIXEguB6 — Miami Rick ✈️🇺🇸 (@miami_rick) February 22, 2020