Maintenance, repair and overhaul news from around the world
A China Southern flight from Shanghai to Guangzhou was delayed for five hours after an elderly passenger threw nine coins into the aircraft’s engine for good luck. One of the coins landed inside the engine of the Airbus A320 aircraft causing staff to undertake a...
An AirAsia X A330 aircraft bound for Malaysia was forced to return to Perth due to an engine failure on June 26. Passengers on the Sunday flight reported hearing a loud explosion before the Airbus A330 began to shudder. The aircraft landed safely and passengers were...
AFI KLM E&M and Sabena technics have announced the signing of a partnership agreement to set up a joint venture to support A320 and ATR component repairs in Singapore's new Seletar aviation cluster. South East Asia is seeing the world's fastest growth in aircraft...
In May, HAECO Xiamen successfully completed cabin reconfiguration work for the third of 10 Virgin Atlantic’s Airbus A330-300 aircraft planned for 2017. The 12-month project involves C4 checks in parallel with reconfiguration of the Business Class section of the Virgin...
The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) has announced that flag carrier, Thai Airways International has been successfully recertified to the international safety standards of ICAO. Thai Airways is the third of Thailand’s international airlines to receive its...
ExxonMobil has announced that Mobil JetTM Oil 387, a synthetic High Performance Capability (HPC) turbine engine oil, will be used in all of Singapore Airlines’ aircraft. “Singapore Airlines’ decision to use Mobil Jet Oil 387 across its entire fleet is a powerful...
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has approved Lufthansa Technik as maintenance station for Airbus A319 aircraft. This new approval enables the company to perform line and heavy maintenance services as well as cabin refurbishments on Chinese...
An aircraft owned by Scoot (TZ188) made contact with an Emirates aircraft (EK405) during early hours today at Changi Airport, Singapore. The left wing of Scoot flight TZ188 "came into contact with an Emirates aircraft…while TZ188 was taxiing before take-off," reports...
HAECO Component Overhaul (Xiamen), in collaboration with Umbra Cuscinetti (Umbra), has recently completed its first Boeing 737NG flap ballscrew overhaul for a commercial airline customer in Mainland China. HAECO Component Overhaul (Xiamen) is the sole Authorised...
A Qantas aircraft was grounded after it collided with a flock of birds while being diverted from Dubai to Muscat on Saturday morning. The A380, flight QF9 which was en route from Melbourne to London via Dubai, left for Dubai on Sunday evening after necessary repairs....
Singapore Technologies Engineering’s aerospace arm, Singapore Technologies Aerospace has injected its proportional share amounting to S$3.574m into the capital of its joint venture, ST Aerospace Aircraft Seats as working capital. ST Aerospace Aircraft Seats is 90%...
Five Regional Express Airlines passenger planes have been grounded as a precaution after a propeller fell off a Saab 340 as it approached Sydney Airport on Friday (March 17). There were no injuries. The airline has grounded another five of its fleet of 55 Saab 340s...