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...
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...
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...
Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) and Lufthansa Technik have signed a ten-year contract covering component support for RB's A320 and upcoming A320neo fleet. The scope of services includes repair management for a comprehensive range of line replaceable units, provision of...
HAECO Americas, a subsidiary of the HAECO Group with headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, will be exiting its line maintenance services segment in the USA to focus resources on its principal businesses: MRO Services and Cabin Solutions. The Company expects...
AAR has signed a contract to provide power-by-the-hour (PBH) component inventory management and repair services to Small Planet Airlines’ A320/A321 fleet. The long-term agreement marks the latest extension of AAR’s PBH program and integrated supply chain services...
Jazz Aviation has extended its Smarts Parts agreement with Bombardier to provide longer-term component support for its growing fleet of Q400 aircraft. The agreement, which was originally scheduled to conclude in 2020, has been extended to December 2025. The Smart...
Aircraft Propeller Service’s Atibaia, Brazil-based facility (APS Brazil), which this past spring earned its certification as a repair station by Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (COM Nr. 1605-41/ANAC), has successfully completed its first 568F blade major inspection...
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft and the International EPD System, an environmental declaration program based in Sweden, has published the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for Bombardier's CS100 aircraft. The EPD, which is based on verified Life Cycle Analysis...