A certification flight test took-off and landed from Francazal airport in Toulouse as part of the validation for the certification process of the ATR 42-500 with modification 5948 in China.
London Heathrow Airport will close one of its two runways following a 90 per cent drop in traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Iranian investigators have detailed the “human error” that contributed towards two missiles being erroneously fired at the Boeing 737-800, killing all 176 passengers on board. In January, Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 was gunned down by the country’s Revolutionary Guard shortly after taking off from Tehran in January. The 17-page report posted to the Civil
The US State Department has green lit the sale of 105 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II jets to Japan, making for the second-largest deal ever approved by the foreign military sales committee. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency told Congress on 9 July that the Japanese government had requested 63 of the F-35A conventional take-off
The new measures were announced in a joint statement by all three bodies, and will be adopted by member airlines of all three alliance groups.
The US has followed the EU and become the latest country to revoke permissions for Pakistan International Airlines to operate flights into the country.
