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Kuwait may sign plane deal in May, Airbus favored
(Reuters) – Kuwait is studying plans by its airline to buy 25 Airbus jets, a source with knowledge of the matter said, in the most sweeping overhaul since part of its fleet was seized after Iraq invaded the Gulf state… Continue reading
Boeing ‘taking next step’ toward new 777 plane launch
Boeing is moving forward on launching the new version of its long-range 777 jetliner in talks with customers, company officials said Thursday.
“We are taking the next step when it comes to engaging customers on the 777X,” said Doug Alder,… Continue reading
9/11 plane landing gear found in lower Manhattan
A part of the landing gear, apparently from one of the commercial airliners destroyed on September 11, 2001, is seen wedged between two buildings in New York in this handout photo released by the NYPD on April 26, 2013.
Nearly… Continue reading
Boeing trails Airbus in Q1 plane orders, deliveries
US aerospace giant Boeing trailed European arch-rival Airbus in jetliner orders and deliveries in the first three months of the year, according to company data released Thursday.
Boeing, which last year wrested back the title as the world’s largest aircraft… Continue reading
Military plane crashes in Washington state, three crew dead
Reuters
An U.S. military plane assigned to a Washington state Naval Air Station on Whidbey Island crashed on Monday morning during a routine training flight, killing all three crew members on board, Navy officials said.
The plane, a Northrop Grumman… Continue reading
At least nine die in plane crash in Congolese town of Goma
Reuters
At least nine people were killed on Monday when a propeller plane crashed as it tried to land in bad weather in the eastern Congolese town of Goma, the government said.
It was not immediately clear how many people… Continue reading
Ukraine plane crash kills Champions League fans
Guardian:
A passenger plane carrying football fans to a Champions League match skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing five people, officials said.
The small Soviet-designed AN-24 plane had been… Continue reading
Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 plane crash kills 27
A Kazakhstan border patrol plane with 27 people on board has crashed, the country’s National Security Committee said Tuesday.
Twenty servicemen and seven crew members were on the AN-72 plane when it crashed in southern Kazakhstan, in central Asia, the… Continue reading
Air Bagan Fokker 100 plane crash kills at least two in Myanmar
An accident happened to Air Bagan flight W9-011 during landing near Heho airport at 08:50 a.m. on 25 December 2012. The Fokker 100 aircraft was carrying 65 passengers, 6 crew members including a pilot and a co-pilot.
The emergency exit… Continue reading
U.S. secret space plane X-37B may end mission soon
After spending more than a year orbiting Earth on a mystery mission, the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane is due to return to Earth any day now, local media reported Wednesday. The X-37B spacecraft’s landing window opened on… Continue reading
Passenger plane crashes in Nigeria’s Lagos
* Dana Air plane had 147 people on board – source
* Witnesses say it crashed into building
* No official word on casualties
REUTERS
LAGOS, June 3 (Reuters) – A passenger plane carrying nearly 150 people crashed into a… Continue reading
ICBC Leasing orders 45 C919 passenger jets
ICBC Leasing on Wednesday signed a deal with Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (COMAC) to buy 45 of the nation’s homegrown C919 large passenger planes.
The financial leasing arm of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country’s largest… Continue reading