The Seattle Times reported on Sunday that 787 programme costs had topped $32bn due to delays. That estimate raised questions, the newspaper said, over whether the new jet would make money for Boeing before "well into the 2020s, if ever". Analysts say new jets typically cost closer to $15bn. Boeing also faces Wall Street concerns over its ability to reach its target of lifting output to 10 planes a month by 2013. (www.guardian.co.uk) 更多...
A buddy of mine who is a First Officer for Air Transat, mentioned to me that HQ is thinking of slowly phasing out the 310's - he is typed on the 310 at the moment. I asked him what are they looking at to replace the 310's. He told me that perhaps they will get 767-200ERs from Continental!? Though, there are obvious hicups with Continentals financials. Anyhow, this is nothing solid. Just thought i would share. (www.airtransat.ca) 更多...
Repairs to the Qantas Airways Airbus A380 that had an uncontained engine failure in November 2010 added only 94kg to the weight of the aircraft. (www.flightglobal.com) 更多...
An EgyptAir Boeing 777-300, registration SU-GDL performing flight MS-986 (dep Mar 4th) from New York JFK,NY (USA) to Cairo (Egypt) with 156 passengers, was enroute over the Atlantic Ocean about half an hour before reaching the Irish coast when the crew reported an engine failure, shut the right hand engine (GE90) down and descended from FL340 to FL260. The crew declared emergency, diverted to Shannon (Ireland) for a safe landing on runway 06 and taxied to the gate. (avherald.com) 更多...
An Eva Air Boeing 747-400, registration B-16411 performing flight BR-702 from Taipei (Taiwan) to Shanghai Pu Dong (China) with 357 passengers, was climbing through about 20,800 feet out of Taipei when the crew received indication of cabin altitude above limit, donned their oxygen masks and initiated an emergency descent to 8000 feet. The aircraft returned to Taipei for a safe landing on Taipei's runway 06 about 25 minutes later. Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council (ASC) confirmed the… (avherald.com) 更多...