Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
United Airlines Flight 837 bound for Japan took off from San Francisco last night only to turn back shortly after when it experienced an engine malfunction. Eye witnesses report flames coming from one of the engines. The 747 aircraft landed safely. A stalled...
American Airlines Flight 1693 made an emergency landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico due to an engine failure. The A321 had departed from DFW International Airport on Sunday night but experienced an engine failure on the right side of the aircraft. There were 178...
A chartered aircraft with 81 people on board has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport. There are reports of at least six survivors. The British Aerospace 146 aircraft was operated by a Bolivian charter airline called Lamia and was enroute to Colombia...
The US FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain 747-8 and 747-8F series airplanes. This AD was prompted by a report that static strength analysis has shown that the aluminium transmission aft bearing plate assemblies have inadequate structural...
After inking an agreement in February covering extended support for Air Austral’s 787s, AFI KLM E&M and the Réunion-based airline have closed a deal for total care for the carrier’s 777s, which are already receiving AFI KLM E&M support. The services covered by...
MTU Maintenance and Spanish airline Air Europa have signed an exclusive seven year contract for the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of the airline’s CF34-10E engines. The contract between MTU Maintenance and Majorca-based Air Europa includes shop visits,...
AAR has entered into a long-term contract with Air New Zealand to provide nose-to-tail, cost-per-flight-hour rotable inventory support covering 740 parts and 15 of the airline’s B777 aircraft. Under reciprocal terms of the agreement, Air New Zealand will become AAR’s...
AFI KLM E&M and Ethiopian Airlines have signed a long-term component services contract covering a fleet of 28 737NG aircraft. The contract is placed in the framework of the Component Services Program (CSP), the exclusive program operated jointly by AFI KLM E&M...
Teledyne Controls, which provides wireless data acquisition and management technology, and GE Aviation have signed a strategic Digital Alliance partnership to transform engine health monitoring by using GE's Predix platform to apply data and analytics on continuous...
AFI KLM E&M, which already supplies aircraft maintenance services for the entire Air Mauritius Airbus fleet, has signed a contract with the Mauritius carrier to organize power by the hour component support for its ATR 72-500s. The agreement covers the three...
Lufthansa Technik is equipped to perform all work required for the complete maintenance of the new Lufthansa Airbus A350-900, the team is trained and ready to go and the company is licensed by the German Federal Aviation Office (LBA). The handing over of the "Base...
Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work jointly on the development of a new A380 MRO Services offering. With this partnership Airbus and Etihad Airways Engineering will combine their respective skills to offer the...