by Dino D'Amore | Mar 26, 2014 | Maintenance, Zone: Asia/Pacific
A Malindo Air aircraft en route to Terengganu on Malaysia’s east coast was forced to turn back to Suband Airport near Kuala Lumpur when one of its engines caught fire. The plane landed safely and no one was hurt. The cause of the fire is not yet known.
by Dino D'Amore | Mar 26, 2014 | Maintenance, Zone: Europe
Romanian aerospace company Aerostar has won a contract from Tanzanian-based low-cost carrier Fastjet for the heavy maintenance of two of the airline’s fleet of three Airbus A319 airliners. The first of the aircraft arrived at Aerostar’s Bacau facility in February for...
by Dino D'Amore | Mar 24, 2014 | Maintenance, Zone: Asia/Pacific
A Malaysia Airlines flight MH066 enroute to Seoul from Kuala Lumpur was forced to make an emergency landing in Hong Kong earlier today after a generator failed. Although the main generator supplying normal electrical power to the aircraft failed, the aircraft’s...
by Dino D'Amore | Mar 24, 2014 | Maintenance, Zone: Americas
Chromalloy has delivered the first seal segment carrier components to Rolls-Royce for the new Trent XWB aircraft engine. “As a supplier for the new Trent XWB engine, Chromalloy has delivered our first seal segment carrier components to the manufacturer’s production...
by Dino D'Amore | Mar 18, 2014 | Maintenance, Zone: Europe
Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL), the independent aircraft maintenance provider and division of The Monarch Group, has seconded a specialist team of structural aircraft engineers to Basel to complete a Strut Improvement Program (SIP) for Jet Aviation. The company,...
