YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail

The report notes that "he cut up the plane into small pieces, and dumped the parts in trash bins in and around Lompoc City Airport." (news.yahoo.com) 更多...

Alaska Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing at PDX after a panel on side of the plane blew out

The flight, No. 1282, was heading from PDX to Ontario, California. Photos show that a panel on the back left side of the plane was jettisoned during the flight. (www.kgw.com) 更多...

Boeing ousts 737 MAX chief in shake-up as blowout fallout mounts

Boeing has ousted the leader of the 737 MAX program at its Renton plant and reshuffled its leadership team at the Commercial Airplanes division, effective immediately. (www.seattletimes.com) 更多...

Bad Weather Prompts Qantas To Swap A Boeing 737 For An Airbus A380

Severe weather in Sydney caused Qantas to consolidate multiple Boeing 737 flights onto an Airbus A380 for the Melbourne - Sydney route (simpleflying.com) 更多...

Airline deregulation may be why flying is such a miserable part of holiday travel

Ahead of the holiday travel season, Harvard Law graduate Ganesh Sitaraman argues in a new book that deregulating the airline industry has led to higher costs, less choice, and more misery for the flying public (hls.harvard.edu) 更多...

Updates on Grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 9 Aircraft

This incident should have never happened and it cannot happen again. FAA formally notified Boeing that it is conducting an investigation to determine if Boeing failed to ensure completed products conformed to its approved design and were in a condition for safe operation in compliance with FAA regulations (www.faa.gov) 更多...

Jet stream powers flights to 800 mph — but not the sound barrier

"weather balloons detected the second-strongest jet stream dating back to the mid-20th century, with winds as fast as 265 mph at 34,000 to 35,000 feet." (thepointsguy.com) 更多...

Boeing names retired Navy admiral to lead ‘independent’ quality review

Boeing has started forming a team to lead a detailed assessment of product quality, a move coming in response to an issue that forced US regulators to ground 171 737 Max 9s 10 days ago. (www.flightglobal.com) 更多...

F.A.A. Tells Airlines to Check Panels on a Second Boeing Plane

The Federal Aviation Administration recommended late Sunday night that airlines begin visual inspections of door plugs installed on Boeing 737-900ER planes, the second Boeing model to come under scrutiny this month. (www.nytimes.com) 更多...

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines to Combine

Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE: ALK), and Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Alaska Airlines will acquire Hawaiian Airlines for $18.00 per share in cash, for a transaction value of approximately $1.9 billion, inclusive of $0.9 billion of Hawaiian Airlines net debt. (news.alaskaair.com) 更多...