Emirates says it is “fully collaborating” with investigators after one of its Boeing 777-300 aircraft crash landed at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday. The accident took place a little after 1245 local time, when 777-300 A6-EMW, operating EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram, India, to Dubai, skidded along Runway 12L before shortly bursting into flames. The 282 passengers
Governments of Hong Kong and Fiji have rebuffed attempts from Australia to negotiate changes to their bilateral air services agreements, a senior public servant from the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development says. The department’s general manager for aviation industry policy Stephen Borthwick said Hong Kong, Fiji and Qatar were three markets where airlines from
Australia’s next fighter jet has passed a critical milestone with the US Air Force declaring the Lockheed Martin F-35A Joint Strike Fighter “combat ready”. The F-35A’s achievement of IOC – initial operational capability – was announced by General Hawk Carlisle, the commander of Air Combat Command, on August 2. “I am proud to announce this powerful new weapons system has achieved
Former Fleet Air Arm Commander Vince Di Pietro will succeed Raydon Gates as vice president and chief executive of Lockheed Martin Australia from January 2017. Di Pietro served in the Royal Australian Navy for 39 years, first training as a pilot and then serving in a variety of increasingly senior roles rising to the rank
The federal government’s new Defence Industry Policy Statement played a key role in encouraging Lockheed Martin to establish a new multi-disciplinary research and development laboratory in Melbourne. To be led by current head of the Defence Science and Technology Group’s National Security and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division, Dr Tony Lindsay, the new ‘Science Technology
Qantas has signed a $20 million joint marketing deal with Tourism Australia to help promote inbound tourists from the United States, Asia, the United Kingdom and Europe. The announcement on Wednesday brings to a close a near four-year falling out between the Australian carrier and national tourism body, after Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce in
