by Spyros Georgilidakis | Oct 25, 2021 | News
A de Havilland Dash-8 crew landed on the opposite end of the runway from what the tower had cleared them. Then they made one more mistake. The incident happened on Sunday, the 24th of October. It involved SpiceJet flight SG-3733, from Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi Airport...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Oct 25, 2021 | News
What if it had been Boeing, not Airbus, that had taken over the Bombardier CSeries (now A220)? And was this ever likely, or even possible? For those who don’t know, what we refer to today as the Airbus A220 started out as the Bombardier CSeries. The Canadian...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Oct 24, 2021 | News
The crew of a 737-300 experienced a runway overrun when their aircraft skidded sideways off the paved surface, in rainy conditions. The incident happened on Friday, the 22nd of October. It involved a 737-300 freighter, performing flight JT667 from Wamena Airport...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Oct 24, 2021 | News
The 777X has faced many delays, but Boeing will finally get to demonstrate it at an airshow. And perhaps reveal some further news around it. Things have been quite busy around Boeing in the past few years, to put it mildly. The manufacturer has faced challenges around...
by Spyros Georgilidakis | Oct 23, 2021 | News
The A330-800 is the smaller of two A330neo variants but has only a fraction of the bigger A330-900’s sales. Why? What does this mean? We have previously seen the history of the Airbus A330. In its original guise, the plane played a secondary role to the four-engined...
