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The massive Japan Airlines plane collision is the ‘first real test for a modern aircraft’ under distress and Airbus’s new lightweight carbon-fibre fuselege may have protected passengers from fire long enough for everyone to evacuate, experts tell Arpan Rai

The temporary grounding will impact tens of thousands of customers with cancelled flights

US regulators have ordered the temporary grounding of 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft following a cabin panel blowout that forced a brand-new plane...

Theyre going to look at is who touched it last. the plug that pete was talking about there, who installed that last? as you look at those pictures, it doesnt appear that there was any structural failure. it looks more like the mounting brackets that are holding that plug in or that door in are intact, which would indicate to me that there wasnt a sudden structural failure, that there was something that came loose or came off. its important to remember too that air current has reported that this ...

United and Alaska Airlines both reported on Monday that loose hardware had been discovered on some of their Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes during preliminary inspections after a dramatic mid-flight

The move follows an in-flight blow-out of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max fuselage section Friday.

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The massive Japan Airlines plane collision is the ‘first real test for a modern aircraft’ under distress and Airbus’s new lightweight carbon-fibre fuselege may have protected passengers from fire long enough for everyone to evacuate, experts tell Arpan Rai

The collision and evacuation of Japan Airlines’ Airbus A350 put state-of-the-art aircraft to the test, and the results were remarkable.

Boeing delivered a 787 jet to a Chinese customer for the first time in more than four years, while LATAM Airlines has ordered five 787s, bringing to 46 the number of Dreamliners the Chile-based carrier will have once all of its deliveries are completed.