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Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to properly adjust the propeller’s pitch angle, which resulted in a loss of thrust and an inability to maintain altitude.

Alaska Airlines’ subsidiary Horizon Air  has trimmed its summer schedule and delayed the delivery of two new E175 aircraft due to the current economic situation caused by the US government’s imposition of tariffs on imported goods. The carrier was in line to receive the aircraft in May, but has postponed the delivery because it ‘will…

Malta-based Universal Air has stopped scheduled operations just 15 month after starting. The airline had taken a gap in the market left by the demise of Malta Air. Moving away from charter flights, the carrier replaced its sole DHC-8-100 with three much newer DHC-8-400s. It flew to destinations around Europe such as Munich, Palermo and…

Airline disruption payments platform Swiipr has launched new technology that enables airlines to digitally transform their compensation payment operations. The firm said the series of new API (electronic computer connections) will have an impact in “as little as a few weeks”, irrespective of airlines’ legacy systems. Over 500 million global passengers are estimated to be…

Probable Cause: The pilot’s loss of directional control during landing rollout due to interference from the pilot’s foot/shoe with the airplane structure that resulted in a runway excursion and impact with terrain.

Enterprise cloud software provider IFS, has announced that Japan Airlines (JAL) has initiated a project to implement IFS Cloud for Aviation Maintenance, aiming to modernise its existing aircraft maintenance management system that has been in operation for over 15 years. READ: IFS announces acquisition of EmpowerMX JAL set out to transition from on-premise systems to a…

Freighter conversion centre Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) has redelivered the first of three A330 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) aircraft to Air Lease, a leading global aircraft leasing company with over 800 owned, managed and on order aircraft in its fleet. The former Alitalia A330-200P2F aircraft will be operated by Mexican airline Awesome Cargo. It is the first A330P2F…

Safran Landing Systems has opened a building dedicated to machining activities and two surface treatment lines at its Molsheim site in Alsace, France. This investment modernises and increases the Alsace site’s production and maintenance capacities for landing and braking systems, to keep pace with the increasing production rates of aircraft manufacturers and the growing Maintenance,…

Probable Cause: The pilot’s unsafe inflight operation of the airplane and failure to maintain clearance from a person on the ground, which resulted in a serious injury.