Mr. Dennis Muilenburg, Chairman, President, and CEO, Boeing Company, says the company will complete the software update of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) in 737 Max aircraft. Muilenburg disclosed this in a statement on Friday in response to the preliminary report on its crashed flight 302, released by the Ethiopian Accident Investigation Bureau on Read more
Ethiopian Airlines pilots followed proper guidance in the fatal crash of a Boeing MAX 8 aeroplane last month, Ethiopia’s minister of transport, Dagmawit Moges, said on Thursday as she delivered the first official report on the disaster. “The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer but was not able to control the Read more
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is set to make its final ruling over subsidies for rival aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus, a dispute that has pitted the United States against the European Union over the past 15 years. The expected WTO verdict will decide whether the U.S. has stopped bolstering Boeing since the Geneva-based trade Read more
The captain of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight did not practise on a new simulator for the Boeing 737 MAX 8 before he died in a crash with 157 others, a pilot colleague said. Yared Getachew, 29, was due for refresher training at the end of March, his colleague told Reuters, two months after Ethiopian Read more
The federal government has banned Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes from flying into Nigeria’s airspace following a fatal crash in Ethiopia over the weekend. Hadi Sirika, minister of state, aviation, disclosed this to state house correspondents at the end of the federal executive council (FEC) meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. “Regarding Boeing 737 Read more
Many of the UN staff killed in Ethiopia Airlines crash were travelling to the UNEP assembly in Kenya’s capital. An assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has opened in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, under a dark cloud cast by the Sunday’s plane crash that killed 157 people, including 22 UN staff, many heading for the annual event. On Monday, Read more
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on a routine flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, Kenya has crashed, with 149 passengers and eight crew members on board. It was not clear whether there were any survivors in the crash that occurred Sunday morning. A message of condolence by the office of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed suggested Read more
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the indefinite suspension of its new national carrier project – Nigeria Air. The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika who disclosed this on Wednesday shielded the reasons for the decision. “I regret to announce that the Federal Executive Council has taken the tough decision to suspend the Read more
British Airways will financially compensate customers whose bank card data were stolen in a “sophisticated” and “malicious” hack, chief executive Alex Cruz said Friday as he apologised for the fiasco. BA late Thursday revealed that personal and financial details of about 380,000 customers who booked flights on the group’s website and mobile phone app between Read more
Arik Air on Sunday left passengers on the ground after three aircraft in the airline’s fleet developed technical problems and were grounded. The development led to confusion at the Port Harcourt airport yesterday when the airline could not airlift passengers scheduled to travel to Abuja because it could not to provide aircraft for the service. Read more
