Airbus is showing off an unusual vehicle – a truck fitted with basic A350 airliner controls – that it hopes can demonstrate how automated taxiing will make airports safer as concern grows over a spate of jetliners colliding on the …
At least 50 people were hurt when a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines dropped abruptly mid-flight from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, according to the airline and a New Zealand health service organization that treated the injured. The aircraft …
Airlines wrestled with the safety risk of evacuation operations in Israel on Thursday, with carriers including Dutch KLM canceling flights while sister airline Air France mounted a special relief flight chartered by the French foreign ministry. Airlines have faced warnings …
Jet engine maker CFM International said on Wednesday the number of engines suspected of containing falsely documented parts from a UK distributor had risen to 126, including 16 inside its own workshops after it inadvertently bought them indirectly. CFM, owned …
Jet engine maker CFM International said on Wednesday thousands of engine components may have been sold with forged paperwork by a British distributor, as the fallout from a probe into falsely certified parts reached London’s High Court. Matthew Reeve, a …
For dealmakers, this week’s Paris Air Show will showcase the boom in demand for commercial planes and military technology. What won’t be on display is the problem that has consumed time and attention of executives and consultants for the past …
A French court on Monday cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of “involuntary manslaughter,” upsetting families of some of the 228 people killed when an airliner vanished into an Atlantic storm almost 14 years ago. The ruling follows a …
Airbus and Qatar Airways have settled a dispute over grounded A350 jets, the companies said on Wednesday, averting a potentially damaging UK court trial after a blistering 18-month feud that tore the lid off the global jet market. The “amicable …
Airbus and Qatar Airways return to court on Friday as a contractual and safety dispute over A350 passenger jets descends into a tug-of-war over confidential documents while the sums at stake in their unprecedented falling-out top $1.5 billion. Qatar Airways …
A French criminal court opened the historic manslaughter trial of Air France and planemaker Airbus on Monday, with angry relatives demanding justice 13 years after an A330 jetliner plowed into the Atlantic, killing all on board. The heads of both …
