An audio recording of the conversation between a doomed Yemenia passenger jet and the airport it was attempting to land at does not indicate that the plane was suffering any technical problems. One hundred and fifty-two people died when the Airbus ...Read More
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- European Aeronautics, Defense andSpace Co. said its Airbus A380 super-jumbo remains a “matter ofconcern” that may create additional charges this quarter as thecompany struggles to maintain the jet’s production schedule. EADS said today it has yet to ...Read More
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -Airport officials in Kansas City say a passenger jet struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff and returned to land safely. The Frontier Airlines flight took off about 7 p.m. Saturday night bound for Denver when it ...Read More
* Order kickstarts Dubai show but business seen down DUBAI, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines will firm up anorder for around 12 A350 jetliners worth almost $3 billion atthe Dubai Air Show, industry sources said on Saturday. The order is expected ...Read More
LOS ANGELES - Officials say a taxiing passenger jet and a departing airliner came within 100 feet (30 metres) of each other on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport. The Daily Breeze of Torrance reports on its Web site Monday ...Read More
The next generation of NASA is on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and it's looking slimmer than ever. As early as Tuesday, the space agency will launch the Ares I-X rocket, a candlestick-shaped powerhouse with more than 12 times ...Read More
EVERETT, Wash. -- To get the troubled 787 Dreamliner back on track after more than two years of delays, officials at Boeing Co. are counting on interpreters who can handle 28 languages, earthquake detectors and high-resolution video cameras. The features are ...Read More
* Airbus confident on A350 development loans * Talks with Spain progressing well, spokesman says * Loans come amid WTO trade spat over aircraft subsidies (Adds quotes, details, Boeing comment) PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Planemaker Airbus (EAD.PA) saidon Friday it was confident on ...Read More
STUTTGART, Germany - A passenger jet made an emergency landing Monday on a protective layer of foam at Germany's Stuttgart airport after having problems with its landing gear. Stuttgart Airport said five passengers suffered shock and a stewardess was taken to ...Read More
A passenger jet suffered landing gear problems on landing at Stuttgart airport on Monday, but there were no significant injuries, airport authorities said. The Fokker 100 was on an internal flight from Berlin's Tegel airport, the airport said on its Web ...Read More
A passenger jet made an emergency landing at Germany's Stuttgart airport on Monday, but there were no significant injuries, airport authorities and a passenger said. The Fokker 100, which was on an internal flight from Berlin's Tegel airport, had problems with ...Read More
Efforts to recover the bodies of the 13 people who died in a plane crash near the Kokoda Track are due to resume this morning, after bad weather stalled the recovery process yesterday. An Australian helicopter was unable to winch a ...Read More
The wreckage of a missing chartered plane carrying 13 people to a tourist region of Papua New Guinea has been located, aviation officials have said, but there are no signs of survivors. The plane was found in a heavily-forested mountainous region ...Read More
PARIS – A submarine scouring the Indian Ocean on Sunday detected the signal beacons of the two black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed off the Comoros Islands, the French aviation agency said. Plans were under way to retrieve ...Read More
(CNN) -- Yemenia Airways is canceling all its flights between Yemen and the Comoros Islands after this week's crash on the same route, the airline said Saturday. One more flight between Sanaa and Moroni is scheduled for Sunday, but all flights ...Read More
A Paris schoolgirl, who survived a plane crash into the Indian Ocean this week, was told today that her mother had been lost in the wreckage off the Comoros Islands. Bahia Bakari, 13, clung to a piece of debris in the ...Read More
PARIS, France (CNN) -- The teenage girl who is the only known survivor of this week's plane crash in the Comoros Islands arrived back in France on Thursday. Bahia Bakari, the only known survivor from the 153 people aboard the Yemenia ...Read More
Paris - The only known survivor from the crash of a Yemenia Airbus A310 near the Comoros islands, 12-year-old Bahiya Bakary, arrived at Le Bourget airport near Paris Thursday. The "miracle girl," as she has been dubbed, was accompanied on ...Read More
The teenage girl who is the only known survivor of the Comoros plane crash that killed up to 152 people has described how she floated in the Indian Ocean clutching a piece of debris for 12 hours before her rescue. Bahia ...Read More
A 12-year-old girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemenia air crash has told how she was thrown into the ocean and watched her aircraft sink. Baya Bakari told her father at a hospital in Yemen that she heard ...Read More
Paris/Johannesburg - The trawl for victims in Tuesday's Yemen Airways (Yemenia) crash off the Comoros islands continued for a second day Wednesday as the sole known survivor of the disaster recovered in hospital, and officials said they had located one ...Read More
