NTSB recovers cockpit voice recorder from crashed Atlas 767F

The National Transportation Safety Board has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Atlas Air Boeing 767-300ER Freighter that crashed southeast of Houston on 23 February. The safety investigatory agency announced the news on Twitter, saying it is sending the recorder to an NTSB laboratory in Washington, DC for analysis. The agency has not commented […]

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ANALYSIS: ATSG profits rise as 767F fleet balloons

Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) continues to acquire more Boeing 767s, riding a wave of demand for package shipments that pushed the company to a $69.3 million 2018 net profit, up nearly four times from 2017. The Wilmington, Ohio-based air cargo company intends to operate another 10 767 Freighters this year, including several former American […]

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United details premium-heavy 767 fleet plans

United Airlines plans to operate 17 Boeing 767-300ERs in its new configuration with 16 additional business class seats. The Chicago-based carrier will reconfigure 14 767s that currently have 30 business class seats in a two-one-two configuration, and configure three aircraft it purchased from Hawaiian Airlines in the premium-seat heavy layout, it says in a recently […]

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OPINION: Only luck saved lives in Durango’s unqualified disaster

On an August day in the Alps last year, a teenage enthusiast on a pleasure flight aboard a single-engined Piper was offered the opportunity to take the controls, even though he had no experience and the pilot had no instructor qualification. The heavily-laden aircraft laboured to climb in the warm air, negotiating a course through […]

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New vehicle set to absorb Air India debt, sell off units

New Delhi has approved the establishment of a special purpose company that will take around half of Air India’s debt and four subsidiaries that are set to be sold off. Air India Asset Holdings was incorporated on 22 January, and will take Rs295 billion ($4.4 billion) of the carrier’s unsecured debt, along with regional unit […]

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China Southern converts two 777-300ER orders to 777Fs

China Southern Airlines has converted an order for two Boeing 777-300ERs to 777-200LR Freighters. The carrier disclosed the order change in a stock exchange statement, and adds that the two freighter aircraft will be delivered in 2020. The two 777-300ERs are from an October 2017 order for eight that were scheduled for delivery between 2019 […]

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India set to welcome its hero – Wing Commander Abhinandan

It was India's diplomacy which finally did a great job in the release of Wing Commander Abhinandan. Pakistan bent for the first time under immense pressure from the international community. This is the first time when Pakistan has announced to release an Indian soldier so soon. Earlier on several occasions Pakistan had inhumanly treated Indian soldiers captured. Pakistan had violated the Geneva Treaty every time.

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