FedEx continues to show strong optimism that it will soon begin operating its fleet of MD-11 freighters despite no signs from regulators investigating the deadly UPS accident about when they’ll lift the aircraft’s flight ban.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Boeing knew of previous failures in a structural component that broke on a UPS MD-11 freighter in November, causing a fatal crash.
Western Global Airlines says it faces an existential crisis from the grounding of MD-11 aircraft following the UPS accident earlier this month and is laying off workers to preserve cash.
The left-engine separation that caused a UPS cargo jet to crash in Kentucky this month is tied to metal fatigue in a key structural component, a preliminary report by investigators said.
UPS and FedEx have temporarily grounded all 57 MD-11 freighter aircraft in their fleets to conduct checks following the catastrophic accident involving one of the planes this week.
Transair, a small all-cargo operator in Hawaii, is preparing to restart business after a serious accident in 2021 and a failed FAA attempt to pull its operating certificate.
More than 100 Boeing 757s that underwent passenger-to-freighter conversions by Precision Aircraft Solutions need to be inspected and repaired to address the risk of cracking in an external component.
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a civil penalty of $400,000 against cargo airline Kalitta Air for allegedly operating flights in a prohibited region when certain aircraft have a faulty multimode receiver. The agency announced Friday that Kalitta Air, based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, used prohibited procedures on 44 flights between late December 2022 and Jan. […]
The NTSB is now investigating two incidents involving FedEx Boeing 767 cargo jets, one in Texas and the other in Turkey this week when a plane landed on its nose.
Global Crossing Airlines is using its small regional jets to airlift aid to Israel. Other U.S. carriers are more cautious and have canceled flights to Israel until further notice.
House Oversight Committee Republicans are accusing U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg of not acting on the DOT inspector general’s recommendations for improving aviation and rail safety.
Mud dauber wasps pose a danger to jets at Australia’s Brisbane Airport, which is using special treatments to keep the insects away.
A hard landing on the runway puts stress on a plane. ATR is using artificial AI to help identify any damage and get planes flying again.
Congress, regulators and industry are trying to develop a long-term plan that would allow 5G cell towers to coexist with airport traffic.
Nearly 80% of the U.S. commercial fleet has been deemed safe to operate around 5G antennas, but not some of the largest freighters in the FedEx and UPS fleets.
Shippers, not just passengers, will be negatively impacted by delayed flights and rerouting to alternative airports if telecom companies eventually launch service close to airports.
Clean up on Runway 2, please! We’ve got rubber deposits.
A British Airways plane fell on its face at Heathrow Airport. One ground engineer was too short to reach the landing gear housing, and his colleague put a pin to hold up the landing gear in the wrong place. Oops.
The Federal Aviation Administration puts Transair on freeze because of safety concerns.
Blame game: The National Transportation Safety Board says an incompetent co-pilot caused an Atlas Air cargo plane to crash. Contributing factors were an inattentive captain, poor pilot vetting by the company and the FAA’s slowness developing a database for pilot records. The pilots union only points the finger at the company and the FAA.
Recipe for disaster: a pilot who made serious mistakes, panicked, had a history of reacting poorly under stress and lied about it to his employer – Atlas Air.
Improper loading of cargo led to a weight and balance issue on a passenger plane, investigators found.
The FAA chief was on the hot seat during a Senate hearing Wednesday looking into reforming the certification process for new aircraft after the 737 MAX grounding.
IATA is aligning its dangerous goods rules with international standards.
