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Court finds Continental responsible for Concorde crash
/A French court has found Continental Airlines criminally responsible for the crash of an Air France Concorde shortly after takeoff from Paris’s Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in July 2000 with the loss of 113 lives. The court ruled that the Concorde ran over a piece of metal that had fallen from a Continental DC-10,
Read moreSikorsky starts final assembly of S-76D
Sikorsky has commenced final assembly of the first production S-76D helicopter at its Coatesville, Pennsylvania facility. The machine’s fuselage was delivered from Aero Vodochody in the Czech Republic on November 19, and all of its electrical and cockpit systems successfully passed acceptance tests. Sikorsky will add the S-76D’s P&WC PW210S engines, rotor blades and gearboxes
Read moreQ400s to Blackall and Barcaldine
QantasLink has announced it will deploy the Bombardier on its flights to Blackall and Barcaldine from early February 2011. The airline is increasings its weekly services to both Queensland centres from two flights to three each week, with the new flights to be operated by the Q400, complementing the existing Q300s flights. “I would like
Read moreQF ups freight capacity on Tasman
/Qantas has announced it will lease a Boeing 767-300F freighter for services on the Tasman, increasing its capacity by 40 per cent over current services which are operated by a wet leased ATI 767-200F. The new aircraft, which will also be the first to feature a new Qantas Freight-specific livery, is being added to cater
Read moreAustralian Aviation’s McLaughlin ‘Aviation Journalist of the Year’
/ | 1 Comment on Australian Aviation’s McLaughlin ‘Aviation Journalist of the Year’Australian Aviation deputy editor Andrew McLaughlin was awarded the National Aviation Press Club’s ‘‘Aviation Journalist of the Year’ for 2010 in Sydney on Friday night. McLaughlin was also awarded ‘Aviation Defence Story of the Year’ and was runner-up in the ‘Aviation News Story of the Year’ category. “The 2010 Aviation Journalist of the Year and
Read moreNew boss for Cathay as Tyler heads for IATA
/Cathay Pacific CEO Tony Tyler will leave the airline on March 31 next year to take on the position of director general and CEO of IATA, replacing the retiring Giovanni Bisignani. Tyler’s replacement as CEO will be the airline’s current chief operating officer, John Slosar. “Our congratulations go to Tony on being recommended by the
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