Tragic Video of the FedEx MD-11F Crash in Tokyo
Here is some video footage from YouTube showing the MD-11F bouncing off the runway and flipping over.
Entries for March, 2009
American Airlines completed the first flight of a Boeing 767-300ER with blended winglets
American Airlines today completed the first flight of a Boeing 767-300ER with blended winglets supplied by Aviation Partners Boeing.
Flight 78 left Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on 8 March at 8:35 p.m. with 204 passengers onboard, landing ahead of schedule on 9 March at London Heathrow.
American is the launch customer for the 11ft tall blended winglets on the 767-300ER, [...]
787 Dreamliner weight problem to be fixed after 20th aircraft
The first 20 production aircraft are slightly overweight, but from ZA020 onward, there will be a significant weight savings resulted from the incorporation of a revised wing design. According to Airways Aviation News‘ source who has direct knowledge on the matter, the first 20 examples are less than 4 tonnes overweight which was claimed by [...]
A380 Reliability Issues
Airbus is working flat out to resolve A380 technical issues in the wake of a brief grounding of the Qantas fleet and concerns by Emirates about declining reliability.
“We’ve a number of unrelated issues that have brought down despatch reliability,” says Emirates Airline president Tim Clark, adding that the airframer has “gone overboard to sort things [...]