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IndustryFokker brand reborn after 14 years
Amsterdam, Netherlands - On 700 airplanes from January 1
The beginning of the new year brought the brand of a historical aircraft manufacturer, Fokker of the Netherlands, to be shown again on more than 700 airplanes, thanks to the decision of its successor group,... more
OccurrencesAir Berlin airplane skids off the runway in Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany - The pilot cancelled take off due to mistaken speed readings
An Air Berlin Boeing 737/800 yesterday skidded off the runway at Dortmund airport, in Germany, after the pilot had decided to stop the take off maneuver. It is likely that the runway's conditions, made... more
MiscellaneousAVIONEWS wishes a Happy New Year
Rome, Italy - The Agency will regularly open again next Monday, on January 4, 2010
AVIONEWS communicates to its subscribers and readers that the Agency will finish today the publication in 2009 of the news, for an extended holiday of end and beginning year, tomorrow and Friday. The... more
AirlinesThe ambitious project by Malaysian Airlines
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Increase of profitability and ownership of a third of fleet
"The Airbus A-330 to integrate our fleet composed by six A-380 and by 35 B-737/800, creating so a compact base for a growth of profits. We fund the purchases through a combination of issue of new shares... more
AirportsBody scanner at Amsterdam's airport: and controversies took off
Amsterdam, Holland - Announced its use at Schiphol for passengers towards USA
After the failed attack on Christmas, when a 23 year old man of Nigerian origins but British citizen Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, evading the controls at Amsterdam's airport was on board of a United's airplane... more
AerospaceItalian ASI. The top ten in 2009: a year of space
Rome, Italy - The Herschel and Planck missions. The satellite images of earthquake in Abruzzo. The Hubble's reparation. The events to remember
What will remain into space field in 2009? ASI, the Italian Space Agency, has tried to answer to retrace the main ten stages that have scanned for the Agency and for the other great space agencies, the... more
AerospaceItalian ASI (2). A year of space: Italy protagonist
Rome, Italy - The water on the Moon, the Italian astronauts, international collaborations, the allocations
6) The Moon's year In the year in which the entire world has celebrated 40 years of the moon-landing of Apollo 11, the Moon has been protagonist of a stunning discovery: there is water on our satellite,... more
SecurityFAA (Revision) AD on Bombardier, Inc. model CL-600-2B19 airplanes (2008-09-12R1)
Washington, Usa - To identify and correct an unsafe condition on an aviation product
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Federal Register: [Page 68132-68135] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part... more
SecurityFAA (Revision) AD on The Boeing Company model 727 airplanes (2008-04-10R1)
Washington, Usa - To prevent the potential for ignition sources inside fuel tanks which, in combination with flammable fuel vapors, could result in a fuel tank explosion and consequent loss of the airplane
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Federal Register: [Page 66227-66230] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part... more
SecurityFAA AD on Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. (EMBRAER) model EMB-135BJ, -135ER, -135KE, -135KL, -135LR, -145, - 145ER, -145MR, -145LR, -145XR, -145MP, and -145EP airplanes (2009-26-02)
Washington, Usa - To identify and correct an unsafe condition on an aviation product
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Federal Register: [Page 66034-66038] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part... more
IndustryBoeing: Brigade Combat Team Modernization Increment 1 to Enter Production
St. Louis, Usa - The industry, as the prime-contractor, is responsbile for development of it
Boeing announced that Increment 1 of the U.S. Army's Brigade Combat Team Modernization program was approved to begin Low-Rate Initial Production early in 2010 as a result of the Milestone C production... more
AerospaceBoeing-built DIRECTV 12 satellite delivers 1st signals From Space
El Segundo, Usa - Together with twins DIRECTV 10 and 11, will expand DIRECTV's HDTV broadcasting in United States, Hawaii and Alaska
Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from DIRECTV 12 nine hours after launch, indicating that the satellite is healthy and operating normally. DIRECTV 12 is a Boeing 702 commercial satellite... more
SecurityFAA (Correction) AD on Boeing model 737-300, -400, and -500 series airplanes equipped with a DTSD installed in accordance with STC (2009-20-11)
Washington, Usa - To prevent a potential of ignition sources inside fuel tanks, which, in combination with flammable fuel vapors, could result in a fuel tank fire or explosion and consequent loss of the airplane
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Federal Register: [Page 68135] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket... more
Civil aviationIATA: continued traffic improvement
Geneva, Swizerland - International passenger and freight demands
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reported international scheduled traffic results for November 2009. Passenger demand was up by 2.1% compared to November 2008 while freight demand recorded... more
Press releaseItalian ENAC: Riggio convokes Ryanair and CISA next January 7
Rome, Italy - Because the airline continues in an obstinate and ostensible manner to put uncertain the respect and rigidity of security controls by the Italian Authorities
"For the carrier continues, in a wilful and alleged manner, to put uncertain the respect and rigidity of security controls by the Italian Authorities, thing that creates baseless alarms and denigrates... more
AccidentsCrash in Jamaica teaches: don't land with wind in tail on short runway under violent tropical rains
Rome, Italy - The considerations by Capt. Renzo Dentesano, investigator of aeronautical accidents
In the late evening of last December 23 a Boeing B-737/800 aircraft of the American Airlines, took off from Miami (FL) with 148 passengers and six members on board, has tried a nocturnal landing on the... more
AccidentsDetails on the Seregno crash happened on Monday to a DA-40D aircraft
Seregno, Italy - One of the passengers is in a coma
The aircraft in question, a Diamond DA-40D, code HB-SDW, was landed last Monday at 5:10pm from the Lugano's airport: the pilot had informed via radio about a failure at the engine at 5:25pm; at 5:38pm... more
ReportCivil victims for Saudi air raids in Yemen
Sanaa, Yemen - Counter offensive by Yemeni guerrilla
A spokesperson by Yemeni ziditi guerrilla has unveiled that there are more 50 civil victims, killed in the extreme north of the country by a dozen of air raid made by Saudi aviation in the night. A hundred... more
Press releaseMovimento consumatori distrusts Ryanair to suspend some flights
Rome, Italy - And for passengers' right to use all ID
"Ryanair threatens to suspend the domestic routes from ten Italian bases as of January 23 because the ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority)'s orders oblige it to accept identification forms for passengers... more
Press releaseItalian Filt Cgil. Mauro Rossi about Ryanair: respect rules of the Italian Country also on work
Rome, Italy - The national secretary of the union is not surprised about the airline's behaviour
"'The procedures with which Ryanair is trying to impose its conditions even to the Italian Authority doesn't astonish me'. The national secretary of the Italian Filt Cgil union, Mauro Rossi declared it,... more
Latest newsThe parcel bomb, made exploded at Milan-Malpensa's airport, had trigger
Milan, Italy - No news about it had or not explosive
According to that declared by Polaria in Milan-Malpensa's airport, the parcel made exploded by bomb experts had a primer and a simple radio-receiver apparatus, but no news about of explosive. The bomb,... more
Latest newsSuspected parcel made exploded at Malpensa's airport
Milan, Italy - Found near the check-in area for flights at risk
Strict clampdown into the security checks in all airports, also in the Italian ones, after the failed attack last December 25, by a 23 year old man of Nigerian origins but British citizen Umar Farouk Adbul,... more
AirlinesRyanair dismisses false claims made by ENAC on a newpaper
Milan, Italy - The carrier has been forced to cancel its domestic routes in Italy
We receive and publish: "Ryanair dismissed the false claims made by ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) on 'Corriere della Sera' daily. The carrier has been forced to cancel its domestic routes... more
AccidentsBeech Bonanza crashes in South African Republic
Johannesburg, South African Republic - A 4 people family destroyed
The thick fog seems to be the cause of the crash -happened yesterday in the early afternoon near Harrismith, into the KwaZulu-Natal, in South African Republic - against one of the Platberg Mountains. The... more
AccidentsCessna 182Q of the Mexican Civil Defense crashes at ground
Jilotlán Dolores, Mexico - The four people on board dead
Four people dead at 12 of yesterday (local hour) into a crash of a Cessna 182Q aircraft of the Mexican Civil Defense happened in an impenetrable area of "La Higueras" ranch, situated at 225 km far from... more
AirportsItalian Bologna's airport: 100,000 passengers in flight for New Year's day
Bologna, Italy - Between today and Monday January 4, 2010
"SAB (Bologna's airport management society) predicts that about 100,000 passengers, between arrivals and departures, will transit at the air station, from today to January 4, 2010, in view of the New Year's... more
ReportAfghanistan: two Italian soldiers lightly wounded, an American dead
Bala Morghab, Afghanistan - An Afghani, under police interrogation at the moment, would have hit them
The causes that have brought this morning to the wounding in a light manner of two Italian soldiers and to the death of an American one, are not yet clear. The episode would be happened while they were... more
CargoSEA and Cargolux Italia sign agreement for partnership
Milan, Italy - A new operating base predicted on Malpensa and increase of served destinations' number
"An agreement between SEA (Milan's airports management society) and Cargolux Italia SpA has been signed. The partnership is further reinforced, with this contract, between two societies that have the common... more
Press releaseItalian ENAC: call for bids for modernization works at Pantelleria's airport on the European official gazette
Rome, Italy - It will be published shortly on the Italian one
"ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) informs that the call for bids has been published last Saturday December 26, 2009 on the European official gazette regarding an additional part of modernization... more
AirlinesUnited Airlines, All Nippon Airways and Continental Airlines apply to US DoT
Houston, Usa - For approval of Antitrust immunity & Trans-Pacific joint-venture
United Airlines, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Continental Airlines filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation for antitrust immunity to enable the three carriers to create a more efficient... more
SecurityFAA AD on Cirrus Design Corporation model SR-22 airplanes (2009-26-01)
Washington, Usa - To detect and correct anti-ice fluid distribution lines with improperly installed compression fittings, which could result in anti-ice fluid distribution line separation
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Federal Register: [Page 66040-66042] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part... more
SecurityFAA AD on General Electric Company GE90-110B1, GE90-113B, and GE90-115B series turbofan engines (2009-25-14)
Washington, Usa - To prevent failure of stage 6 LPT blades, which could result in uncontained engine failure and damage to the airplane
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Federal Register: [Page 66042-66045] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part... more
SecurityFAA AD on Eurocopter France model SA-330 F, G, and J helicopters (2009-25-09)
Washington, Usa - To correct a condition that could result in failure of the coupling discs, and loss of control of the helicopter
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Federal Register: [Page 66045-66047] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part... more
AirlinesEtihad to increase services to Beirut
Abu Dhabi, UAE - From next Friday
Etihad Airways will increase its Abu Dhabi-Beirut services from double daily to 18 flights per week from 1 January, 2010. Etihad’s services to Beirut, which were launched in November 2003, have proved e... more
Weather forecastsBad weather in Italy: new worsening waited for New Year's day
Rome, Italy - After that one during the Christmas week
"After the bad weather during the Christmas week, fickleness conditions also in the last days of the year on most part of the Italian Peninsula, due to a series of perturbations coming from Atlantic. Already... more
IndustryEmbraer opens new service center for its executive jets
São José dos Campos, Brazil - This facility is dedicated to its executive jets customers
Embraer officially opened a service center dedicated exclusively to executive jets at its headquarters in São José dos Campos. Now, the Company offers a new support and services option, especially for L... more
SecurityFAA AD on Eurocopter France model EC-120B helicopters (2009-25-07)
Washington, Usa - To prohibit flight over water if a functional test indicates that the emergency floatation gear cannot be armed, which would preclude deployment of the floats in an emergency water ditching
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: (Volume 74, Number 237)] [Page 65682-65684] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14... more
SecurityFAA (Correction) AD on General Electric Company CF6-80C2 series turbofan engines (2009-21-07)
Washington, Usa - To prevent asymmetric thrust and loss of thrust control
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Federal Register: [Page 66042] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket... more
SecurityFAA AD on Bell Helicopter Textron Canada (BHTC) model 407 and model 427 helicopters (2009-25-08)
Washington, Usa - To correct a condition that could result in a loss of hydraulic pressure and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: (Volume 74, Number 237)] [Page 65684-65686] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14... more
Security"Body scanner" into the English airports?
London, UK - The Government would evaluate such possibility
The English Interiors Minister, Alan Johnson, has declared today during an interview at "BBC 4" radio that the British Government is valuating the opportunity to install "Body scanner" inside the English... more
DefenseSwitzerland, currently, renounces to purchase new combat airplanes
Berne, Switzerland - A decision is expected for next Spring. Completed the evaluation's phase for candidates to replace part of Tiger
The federal councillor Ueli Maurer, at the end of his first year as head of defense, sport federal Department (DDPS), has made a positive report on the occasion of a talk with media delegates took place... more
ReportAbout 25 British extremists ready to hit on western airplanes
London, UK - All prepared in Yemen, as Mutallab, the attacker in Christmas day
The British daily, "The Sun", citing sources near to Scotland Yard, unveils today on its pages that there would be around 25 young people, mainly of Somali or Pakistan origins but British citizens, engaged... more
ReportFini in Shama praises the work by the Italian soldiers
Shama, . - Engaged within the UNIFIL mission
Gianfranco Fini, the President of the Chamber, together with an Italian parliamentary delegation has gone, on board of a military airplane, to Shama, a ground strip that divides Lebanon and Israel, to... more
ReportAlarm-security on airplanes to USA: a second Nigerian arrested for aggressive behaviour on Delta's flight
Detroit, Usa - Obama convokes the counsellors in tele-conference
A new episode, after terrostic attack's threat happened in Christmas on an American Delta Airlines' airplane that had to serve the Amsterdam-Detroit route by the 23 year Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab,... more
AirportsThe new flight Turin-Moscow by Aeroflot has taken off
Turin, Italy - With a week in advance compared to that previously planned
The new Turin/Moscow-Sheremetyevo link, that had to begin next Saturday, on January 2, 2010, with surprise, has taken off with a week in advance. Positive news for local tourism, mainly that towards... more
Press releaseItalian ENAC arranges controls on all flights towards USA
Rome, Italy - As requested by TSA, after recent events
"The ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority)'s President, Vito Riggio, also as a President of the CISA (Interministerial Committee for Air and airport Safety), in agreement with the law enforcements, has... more
Press releaseItalian ENAC sanctions easyJet
Rome, Italy - For EUR 110,000
"The ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) unveils that its airport management in Rome-Fiumicino has disbursed, last Thursday, three administrative sanctions (for a total of EUR 110,000) to easyJet,... more
AirlinesEtihad took delivery of an Airbus A-330/300
Abu Dhabi, UAE - The aircraft is the first of five new models that the carrier will receive during the next two years
Etihad Airways has taken delivery of its first Airbus A-330/300, configured with the airline’s new first, business and economy cabin product. The aircraft is the first of five new A-330/300s the A... more
AirportsTurin-Caselle's airport rushed by skiers
Turin, Italy - The 2009-2010 snow charter season has begun
The first real and great invasion by skiers has begun yesterday, on Sunday December 27, 2009 with the arrival of 15 snow charters in Turin-Caselle, served by British carriers Thomson Fly by B-757/200,... more
CuriositiesFAA's green light for Santa Claus' takeoff
Washington, USA - Administrator Randy Babbit controlled all the sleigh's systems
Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt braved snow, ice and foggy conditions at North Pole International Airport to give Santa Claus and his sleigh a thumbs-up for the traditional round-the-world... more