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Firefighters battle to extinguish the flames in this plane’s landing gear. The jet, carrying 140 passengers, caught fire while landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport. A passenger on the aircraft says he saw the plane’s wheel burning. (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) PLANE PASSENGER DMITRY VISHKEVICH, SAYING: “It turned out that the back left leg of the landing [...]
US carrier Delta Air Lines will watch the wave of orders for the latest Airbus and Boeing planes and wait for the aircraft to prove themselves before ordering any, its chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday. The two plane makers have orders for more than 3,000 of their narrow-bodied models, the Boeing 737 MAX [...]
Airbus has won an order for three A330-300 aircraft from Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, the European plane maker said on Wednesday. The order, which Airbus said would bring Oman Air’s A330 fleet to 10 aircraft, is worth about USD$720 million based on list prices. The planes will be [...]
A US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport on Saturday morning after experiencing landing gear trouble. Source: WSJDigitalNetwork ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ALSO ON SKY TODAY: US Airways Plane Belly Lands At Newark Airport
A US Airways made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark’s Liberty Airport early on Saturday after the plane’s landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said. The Piedmont Airlines De Havilland Dash 8, operating for US Airways as flight 4560, was flying from Philadelphia with [...]
John Menzies said trading was stronger in its aviation business, but that its core newspaper distribution business was slower in the first four months of 2013 than last year. The 180-year-old Edinburgh-based company said it did not expect to see an improvement in its distribution business — which contributed about 68 percent to revenue [...]
LATAM Airlines said its Argentina unit was halting all of its flights in the country until Saturday after a state company unilaterally decided to stop providing services to the airline. Intercargo provides Latin America’s biggest carrier with ramps at Argentine airports, loads luggage and manages passenger buses to terminals, LATAM said in a statement [...]
French league champions Paris St Germain and Dubai airline Emirates extended their shirt sponsorship deal by another five years on Friday. Despite maintaining a relationship between the two parties that dates back to 2006, neither PSG president Nasser al-Khelaifi nor Emirates executive vice-president Thierry Antinori were prepared to reveal the official value of the [...]
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