Detectives discovered bird feathers and blood in both engines of the Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing 179 people, a person familiar with the probe informed Reuters on Friday. The Boeing 737-800 plane, which departed from the Thai capital Bangkok for Muan county in southwestern South Korea, belly-landed and overshot the local airport's runway, bursting into flames after hitting an embankment. Just two crew members at the tail end of the plane endured the worst air travel disaster on South Korean soil. About four minutes before the fatal crash, among the pilots reported a bird...

Boeing resumed screening for its longdelayed 777X widebody jet on Thursday, with the first flight because the U.S. planemaker grounded the test fleet in August due to the failure of an essential engine mounting structure. The grounding came simply 5 weeks after it had actually begun accreditation flights for the 777-9 with authorities from the U.S. aviation regulator onboard. Federal Air travel Administration personnel were not on board for Thursday's flight, according to the company. The 777X is the successor to Boeing's 777, among the most commercially effective long-haul airliners. The business initially prepared to provide the very first 777X...

Airlines have warned the European Union they can not yet adhere to pollution guidelines that entered into force this month, because the EU has actually not yet launched its promised system to administer them, a document seen showed. The EU guidelines require airlines to track and report contaminants such as soot, nitrogen oxides and water vapour. These emissions contribute to global warming at least as much as airplanes' carbon dioxide output. But the EU has not yet launched an assured system - referred to as NEATS - to look at the data for this reporting, triggering calls from airlines to...

Issues about dispute in the Middle East have triggered worldwide airline companies to suspend flights to the area, though some are resuming the routes as a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was announced. Below are a few of the airline companies that have suspended services to and from the region: AEGEAN AIRLINES The Greek airline company in August cancelled flights to and from Beirut till March 29. AIR ALGERIE The Algerian airline has suspended flights to and from Lebanon up until more notice, it said on Aug. 1. AIRBALTIC Latvia's airBaltic has actually cancelled flights to and from Tel...

Germany's Lufthansa said on Thursday it was set to resume flights to and from Tel . Aviv in Israel from Feb. 1, after a ceasefire contract between. Israel and Hamas was revealed by mediators, as providers. meticulously consider resuming flights to the area. Many Western providers cancelled flights to swaths of the. Middle East in current months, consisting of Beirut and Tel Aviv, as. dispute tore throughout the region. Airlines also avoided Iraqi and. Iranian airspace out of fear of getting mistakenly caught in. drone or missile warfare. Ryanair stated it was wanting to run a full summertime. schedule to...

The following are the leading stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has actually not validated these stories and does not attest their precision. - The U.S. government has actually submitted a $2.1 million claim versus Southwest Airlines, declaring the carrier regularly damaged passengers with persistent hold-ups on two key paths in 2022. - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday took legal action against farm devices maker Deere, implicating it of unjustly restricting farmers from fixing their machinery, pumping up expenses. - Billionaire business leaders, consisting of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk are expected to...

The Vietnam government said late on Wednesday that it will consider eliminating regulative hurdles to permit aircraft manufactured by Chinese stateowned planemaker COMAC to operate in the nation. COMAC is looking for to develop itself as an option to leading Western planemakers Airbus and Boeing. Nevertheless, its two traveler airplane designs presently run nearly exclusively within mainland China, and the company looks for to broaden its presence in international markets. Before an airline can run any aircraft design, it should get approval from the national aviation regulator. Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha appointed the transportation ministry to examine existing...

President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday took legal action against Southwest Airlines, accusing the carrier of unlawfully operating several chronically postponed flights and interrupting travelers' travel. The U.S. Transportation Department stated in its civil match in U.S. District Court in Northern California that the Texas-based air carrier had operated unrealistic schedules and must be required to pay optimum civil penalties. The Justice Department joined in the fit. USDOT said that for 5 months in 2022, Southwest operated 2 chronically delayed flights: one in between Chicago Midway and Oakland, California, and another in between Baltimore and Cleveland. Today's action sends out...

The chief executive of Jet said he was positive the business would reach its target of making 75 singleaisle airplane a month in 2027, offered its financial investment, focus on its supply chain and the hiring of people ahead of time. By 2027 we will be with the capability rate 75 totally in location, which's something we are very confident of, CEO Guillaume Faury informed press reporters on Wednesday. The European planemaker had in July cut its annual shipment target to around 770 aircraft from 800 after Faury said he had been blind-sided by a drop in products from enginemaker...

The European Commission informed Lufthansa on Wednesday it would purchase the German flag carrier to reinstate charter airline company Condor's access to Lufthansa's shorthaul network to feed Condor's FrankfurtNew York route. The expected interim measure becomes part of the Commission's. investigation into the joint endeavor between Lufthansa, United,. and Air Canada, which the EU executive thinks may limit. competition for Frankfurt-New York flights. The Commission stated Lufthansa ought to reinstate plans. concurred in June 2024 that provided feeder traffic to Condor to. and from Frankfurt, however stopped to apply in December. Without the. arrangements, Condor might be required to exit...

Issues about dispute in the Middle East have triggered global airlines to suspend flights to the region or to avoid affected airspace. Below are some of the airline companies that have suspended services to and from the area: AEGEAN AIRLINES The Greek airline company in August cancelled flights to and from Beirut up until March 29. AIR ALGERIE The Algerian airline company has suspended flights to and from Lebanon until further notice, it said on Aug. 1. AIRBALTIC Latvia's airBaltic has actually cancelled flights to and from Tel . Aviv until Jan. 28. It announced the suspension in late. September....

Russia prepared 'acts of terrorism' in the air versus Poland and other countries, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated on Wednesday after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Warsaw. Security officials have said that parcels that took off at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to set off surges on freight flights to the United States. The explosions occurred in depots in Britain, Germany and Poland in July. Russia has denied involvement in the occurrences and Tusk did not mention them specifically. The most recent information can validate the validity of fears...