Aviation News Stories
Doomed Air France Plane Hit Sea Intact
July 3, 2009
The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month hit the water intact and at high speed but was missing for six hours before an emergency was declared, French investigators said on Thursday.
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Business Jet Market Faces Slow Recovery
July 3, 2009
The business jet market, which soared in recent years as US companies posted record profits and new foreign buyers raised demand, is now facing a hard landing.
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Boeing Says 17 Plane Cancellations In Last Week
July 2, 2009
Boeing said on Thursday it had 17 cancellations for its commercial aircraft in the last week, including a previously reported cancellation of 15 of its delayed 787s.
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EADS Aims To Sell Airbus Planes To Iraqi Air
July 2, 2009
EADS aims to sell Airbus planes to Iraqi Airways and break the monopoly currently enjoyed by Boeing with that airline, chief executive Louis Gallois said on Thursday.
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Yemenia Crash Survivor Reunited With Father
July 2, 2009
The sole survivor of a Yemeni jet that crashed into deep water while attempting to land on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros was reunited with her father back in France early on Thursday.
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Planes Hunt For Indian Ocean Crash Black Box
July 1, 2009
French planes searched on Wednesday for the flight recorder from the Yemenia plane that crashed into deep water off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros.
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Indian Ocean Plane Crash Search Resumes
July 1, 2009
French and US aircraft joined the hunt on Wednesday for possible survivors from a plane that crashed off the Comoros archipelago, while in Paris expatriate Comorans tried to block another flight by the same airline.
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ANA To Raise USD$1.9 Bln, Orders More 787s
July 1, 2009
All Nippon Airways plans to issue shares to raise up to USD$1.9 billion to shore up its battered finances and buy five more of Boeing's long-delayed 787s.
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FlyDubai Secures Financing For 4 Planes
July 1, 2009
United Arab Emirates low-cost carrier FlyDubai said on Wednesday it had secured USD$320 million financing with GECAS for four Boeing 737 aircraft to be delivered this year.
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Boeing 787 Delay Gives Airlines Breathing Room
July 1, 2009
Boeing, red-faced after delaying the test flight of its new Dreamliner 787, may inadvertently have staved off some order deferrals or cancellations by global airlines with sagging traffic.
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Crashed Airbus Had Sparked EU Probe
July 1, 2009
The Airbus plane that crashed off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday had sparked a European Union inquiry two years ago into Yemenia airline's safety record, an EU Commission official said.
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Expat Comorans Warned About Crash Airline
July 1, 2009
Expatriate Comorans, mourning Tuesday's crash of an Airbus plane off their Indian Ocean archipelago, said they had complained to French authorities last week about the Yemeni operator's "rubbish" aircraft and poor security.
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Human Factors Emerge As Trend In Air Crashes
June 30, 2009
Human factors are emerging as a worrisome trend in global air crashes and other incidents as fatigue, complex flight systems, inconsistent training and regulation pose new challenges to airlines, a leading safety advocate said on Tuesday.
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Girl Found Alive After Yemenia Plane Crash
June 30, 2009
A Yemenia Airbus A310-300 with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it approached in bad weather early on Tuesday, officials said.
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EADS Has No Plan To Sell Dassault Stake
June 28, 2009
European aerospace group EADS has no plan to sell either all or part of its stake in French planemaker Dassault Aviation, a senior EADS executive was quoted as saying in a report published on Sunday.
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