An electrical problem that led to dozens of Boeing 737 MAX jets being suspended from service has widened after engineers found similar grounding flaws elsewhere in the cockpit, industry sources said on Friday. Airlines pulled dozens of MAX jets from service a
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It is the weight of the aircraft after the fuel has been removed from the calculation. So, if the aircraft’s take-off weight is about 65000 kgs, and the fuel weighs 12000 kgs, the zero fuel weight is (65000 – 12000) = 53000 kgs. The
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FLIGHTS AT SHANNON Airport have resumed after a plane that was attended to by emergency services has now been cleared from the runway. The situation began at 6 am this morning and related to an Omni Air International jet Boeing 767-300 which
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Captain Simisola Ajibola who operated the Air Peace flight on July 23, which had nose wheel collapse, debunks reports, saying the aircraft landed without tyres. She said the incident, which took place at the international runway of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos,
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A Russian passenger plane has made an emergency landing at Moscow airport after a fire broke out mid-flight. All 78 passengers were reportedly evacuated from the Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet aircraft after it landed at an airport in Moscow. At least 13 people
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A Kuwait Airways flight bound for Beirut was damaged after colliding with snow during its landing at Lebanon’s Rafiq Hariri International Airport on Sunday. Images of the aircraft, which was damaged while flying at an altitude of 8,000 feet appeared on social
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A small passenger plane skidded off the runway and smashed into a parked helicopter at the only airport in Nepal’s Everest region on Sunday. The crash occurred while the Summit Air plane was trying to take off from Lukla for Kathmandu, said
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