With the flight data recorder found, avoid the rush to premature conclusions in Lion Air crash
With divers raising the flight data recorder from the Boeing 737 MAX on Thursday, premature conclusions are already being drawn about the cause of the crash of flight JT610 into the Java Sea shortly after departure from Jakarta this Monday.
MAXing out: Boeing’s 737 MAX 10
In this Australian Aviation August 2017 feature story, John Walton looks at Boeing’s 737 MAX 10 narrowbody that was the talk of the 2017 Paris Airshow.
Recovery efforts continuing for Lion Air flight JT610
Recovery efforts are continuing for Lion Air flight JT610, which crashed into the Java Sea after takeoff from Jakarta early Monday morning.
Airbus BelugaXL makes first flight
Airbus’ BelugaXL over-size transport aircraft has completed its maiden flight as part of its type certification program. The aircraft F-WBXL, took off from Toulouse at about 1030 on Thursday (European time) and was in the air for four hours and 11 minutes, Airbus said in a statement. In the flight deck were Captain Christophe Cail,
Airbus and Boeing have presented their final order numbers after a busy few days at Farnborough, as John Walton reports. As exhausted journalists trooped between the Airbus and Boeing chalets on the final day of the Farnborough Airshow prior to the public flight displays on the weekend, the spectre of the “undisclosed customer” loomed large,
The slowing of commercial aircraft orders on Day Three of the airshow was somewhat understandable after the flurry of announcements from the major airframers over the first two days of the event. However, Airbus and Boeing, among others, were kept busy thanks to the ever-present unidentified customer, as well as deals for after market services,
