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Southwest Airlines 737 MAX A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max airliner made an emergency landing in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday 26 March. “The aircraft returned and landed safely in Orlando. No passengers were aboard the aircraft,” the Federal Aviation Administration said. The pilots reported an engine issue that appears to be unrelated to the control-softwareRead more

Boeing said it will be ‘carefully monitoring’ the aviation officials’ testimony, adding that ‘safety is our top priority.’ The FAA was ‘directly involved in the system safety review of the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS),’ Elwell will tell lawmakers. ‘FAA engineers and flight test pilots were involved in the MCAS operational evaluation flight test,’ theRead more

Boeing 737s Boeing has flown test flights of its 737 MAX to evaluate a fix for the system targeted as a potential cause of the crashes. The aviation giant, which has been under fire and has seen its flagship narrow-body planes grounded since 13 March, tested the system upgrade on Monday, two days after pilotsRead more

Due to some factual inaccuracies in Monday’s APAnews about this tragedy I have revised the text. The Matsieng Flying Club regrets to make the following announcement: At approximately 18h20 GMT on 23 March 2019 a 2016 Beechcraft Kingair B200 aircraft A2-MBM was involved in an ground impact incident resulting in the death of the pilotRead more