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Cockpit Smoke Causes Lufthansa Emergency Landing
Cockpit Smoke Causes Lufthansa Emergency Landing A Lufthansa Boeing 747 made an emergency landing in Canada after smoke was reported in the cockpit. The plane, on a flight from Frankfurt to Orlando with 345 passengers an...
Airbus To Beat Boeing Deliveries by 2020
Airbus To Beat Boeing Deliveries by 2020 Fabrice Brégier, the head of Airbus’s commercial aircraft unit, said the European plane maker will overtake Boeing in aircraft deliveries in 2020. Speaking to German newspaper ...
Boeing Opens 777X Parts Plant In St. Louis
Boeing Opens 777X Parts Plant In St. Louis Boeing has opened a new manufacturing facility in St. Louis to build composite parts for the 777X. The production of 777X wing parts will begin there in early 2017, with first a...
Embraer Delivers More Airliners
Embraer Delivers More Airliners Embraer delivered 29 commercial aircraft in the third quarter, 38 percent up on the same period last year. Total deliveries for the commercial aviation sector for January-September, 2016 s...
China Southern Orders 12 Boeing 787-9s
China Southern Orders 12 Boeing 787-9s China Southern Airlines and Boeing have agreed the terms of a 12-aircraft 787-9 order. The order, due to be be delivered from 2018, is worth USD$3.2 billion at list prices. The 787s...
Norwegian Cruise Line To Debut New Ship Designed For Alaska Cruising In 2018
Norwegian Cruise Line To Debut New Ship Designed For Alaska Cruising In 2018 Norwegian Cruise Line will once again pioneer a new era of Alaska cruising beginning June 2018, as the company announced today that its next new vesse...