The NTSB found the probable cause of the July 2, 2021, crash of the Transair Boeing 737 freighter was: 'the flight crewmembers' misidentification of the damaged engine (after leveling off the airplane and reducing thrust) and their use of only the damaged engine for thrust during the remainder of the flight, resulting in an unintentional descent and forced ditching in the Pacific Ocean. Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's ineffective crew resource management, high workload, and stress.

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The complete loss of a large transport airplane like a Boeing 737 usually brings out the NTSB in force. That was the case with Transair 810. The initial NTSB headquarters Search and Recovery team arrived in Honolulu the day of the accident and got started promptly. The team made arrangements to find and recover the wreckage. The Operations and Human Performance and Air Traffic groups arrived the next day. Other groups formed later. A crash of this type could have been a major (Class 1) investigation, but it was eventually rated as Class 2.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg James Pozzi September 26, 2023 ST Engineering, the world's largest airframe MRO provider, has operated since 1967 and has undertaken commercial MRO work since 1990. Its aerospace MRO division focuses on airframe, engine and component maintenance with its main base close to Singapore Changi Airport. The company recently broke ground on a new hangar that will be its fourth airframe facility in Singapore and the 10th in its global network of airframe MRO facilities.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg The U.S. Army has ordered 1,000 RQ-28 drones from Skydio and plans to award a competitive follow-on contract next spring for thousands more. Credit: Defense Innovation Unit A new operational concept within the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command proposes to use a horde of drones to turn the Taiwan Strait into a 'hellscape' if China attempts to invade Taiwan. To realize that vision, the Defense Department has created several new efforts to solve the industrial, bureaucratic and.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Tools and processes used for pilot production in Marina, California, will be replicated and scaled up in Dayton. Startup Joby Aviation's journey toward becoming a fully fledged aerospace OEM has taken two major steps with selection of a manufacturing site and delivery of its first aircraft to a customer. Access to workforce is the principal reason Joby chose Dayton, Ohio, as the location for the first full.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Eke Nazri Rahim, COO of MAB Engineering and Mohd Nadziruddin Mohd Basri, CEO of Aviation Services for Malaysia Aviation Group. What are the key elements of Malaysia Airlines' maintenance strategy? Nadzir: A key part of our strategy is to ensure that our service enables operational excellence. We are looking at diversifying our competencies and our capabilities. We are not just looking at airframe maintenance but also at.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Some MRO providers in Latin America are losing workers to competition from U.S.-based companies. Credit: Lindsay Bjerregaard/AW&ST Commercial air traffic in Latin America has nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels, and forecasts paint a positive picture for its MRO industry. However, airlines and MROs in the region still face serious concerns about economic uncertainty, workforce shortages and ongoing supply chain issues.

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Two lines from a poem about tenacity are fundamental to ARSA's interactions with governments: 'Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, / Is oft but perseverance in disguise.' The original author is subject to debate, but the principle is clear: Perseverance often pays off in regulatory compliance. It took five years for the FAA to acknowledge that approved technical data did not require reapproval during maintenance. Equal persistence resulted in the issuance of advisory circulars on maintenance fabrication and repair and alteration data.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg With about 1,300 aircraft sold in 18 years, the AW139 may soon be assembled in Algeria in addition to lines in Italy and the U.S. Credit: Leonardo Helicopters Rather than pursuing new-generation, clean-sheet designs, Leonardo Helicopters Managing Director Gian Piero Cutillo is committing to making the company's rotary-wing platforms smarter. It helps that many of the manufacturers' aircraft—with the exception of the AW109 light twin—have been developed.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Germany's M2SAF consortium has launched a project to produce synthetic kerosene from green methanol. Germany Plans To Produce SAF From Methanol Germany has launched a project to develop a process to convert sustainably produced methanol into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) that can be integrated into existing fossil-fuel production plants. The starting point for the 2.5-year, €3.1 million ($3.2... The Week In Technology, Nov, 21-25, 2022 is available to both Aviation Week & Space Technology and AWIN subscribers.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg A Diamond DA42 (left) and a DA40 from Take Flight Aviation make a sunset flight over New York. Not only is Mika Brageot an air race pilot, he also does air show displays, notably with a beautiful Beechcraft Baron 55 modified to perform aerobatics. The picture was taken in southern France. Electra.aero's solar-powered aircraft Dawn One lifts off on its first flight on Sept. 9. The project is part of the SACOS, or Stratospheric Airborne Climate Observatory System, organized by MIT and Harvard.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Bill Carey January 24, 2023 U.S. Rep. Sam Graves now leads the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Credit: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Republicans Streamlining FAA certification and approval processes, cultivating a future workforce, meeting environmental challenges and setting the stage for new aircraft entrants are foremost among business aviation legislative priorities for the 118th Congress.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg France's future aircraft carrier program is likely to be a major beneficiary of the defense spending boost. Credit: Naval Group Concept France's military is to pivot toward high-intensity warfighting rather than so-called conflicts of choice, President Emmanuel Macron has declared. Prompted by the Russia-Ukraine war and after more than a decade of counterinsurgencies in Africa and the Middle East, Macron wants to 'transform' the.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Credit: Ted Hsu/Alamy Stock Photo Each morning, I scan the front page of the newspaper to find an interesting first word for Wordle, the popular five-letter word game. (Forcing myself to start with a different selection each day makes it more fun and challenging.) If you scan Inside MRO's table of contents, words (not necessarily... If Wordle Focused On MRO is part of our Aviation Week & Space Technology - Inside MRO and AWIN subscriptions.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Airlines are still learning about the reliability of new-technology engines—and how many spares they need. Credit: Lufthansa Technik Spare engines provide both operational and financial flexibility for airlines. Their primary role is to keep aircraft flying when standard engines are undergoing overhaul or are out of service for other reasons. Accordingly, demand for spare engines rises during busy maintenance periods and falls.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg After landing in the Pacific Ocean and being ferried to land by the USS Portland, the Orion crew capsule will be transported to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for further analysis. Credit: James M. Blair/NASA With NASA's Artemis I Orion spacecraft back on Earth, the space agency has begun to look ahead to the next milestone in its quest to establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon with commercial and international partners.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg The new, four-port version of the Goldilock system was developed in collaboration with UK national defense and cybersecurity organizations. Advanced defense technologies ought to be one area where the 2020s bear scant resemblance to the 1980s. But for one UK-based cybersecurity vendor, delivering its most recent piece of equipment to its most exacting user had the company's founders thinking back to the Cold War.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Lee Ann Shay August 29, 2023 Advanced Aviation Team CEO Gregg Brunson-Pitts discusses what is involved in chartering aircraft for presidential candidates—from logistics to working with the Secret Service—and upsizing aircraft as the campaign evolves. Hosted by Lee Ann Shay, Aviation Week's executive editor for business aviation and MRO.  Don't miss a single episode.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg A B-52 could provide jamming support for tactical aircraft if an experiment planned next year is successful. Credit: Staff Sgt. Jerreht Harris/U.S. Air Force As an $11 billion makeover of Boeing B-52 engines, sensors and electronics continues, the Stratofortress has won a chance to audition for a role as an airborne electronic attack platform. Next year's planned demonstration of an RTX ALQ-249 midband jammer pod proposes a new—albeit slightly familiar.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Despite efficiency benefits from introducing tablets to the hangar, connectivity issues and unstructured data have created challenges for Lufthansa Technik.  Credit: Sonja Brueggemann/Lufthansa Technik AG From line maintenance on the apron to heavier maintenance in the hangar, the MRO sector is increasingly relying on individual electronic devices to schedule, assist with and even certify work.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg GE has been testing XA100s at ground facilities in Ohio and Tennessee since December 2020. Beneath steel scaffolding and a thicket of instrumented cables and bolted-on accessories, the world's most advanced jet engine—GE Aerospace's XA100—made a rare appearance to a group of journalists and think tank analysts within the normally classified space of Altitude Test Cell 44, offering a.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg The prototype Kaan fighter has been equipped with all the systems to enable flight. Mission systems will be added later, officials say. Credit: Tony Osborne/AW&ST The rollout of Turkey's National Combat Aircraft on May 1 was a boisterous and bombastic affair, symbolic of the country's growing confidence in its aerospace industry. The fighter, named Kaan—Turkish for 'king of kings'—is one of the centerpieces of the government's ongoing effort to make Turkey a.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Airbus has been struggling to increase output of the A220 in Mirabel, Canada, and Mobile, Alabama. Credit: Patrick Descrochers/Airbus Airbus faces new materials shortages in the aerospace supply chain even as it gains better control over other issues that dominated in the past year. 'There are new difficulties with raw materials, particularly aerospace steel,' Chief Operating Officer Alberto Gutierrez told Aviation Week on the.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg The accident aircraft, an Embraer Phenom 100. Credit: BEA/jetphotos.com A charter crew approached Paris Le Bourget Airport in their Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 on the morning of Feb. 8, 2021. The wing and stabilizer de-icing system was not turned on when they passed through a layer of freezing clouds on final approach, and at 50 ft. above the runway, the airplane stalled.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg While their primary role has been national air defense, the Italian Air Force's Eurofighters are beginning to take on additional missions such as ground attack and tactical reconnaissance. Credit: Italian Air Force Marking its centenary this year, the Italian Air Force is acknowledging its formidable achievements and considering its future mission in an increasingly uncertain world.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Christian Albertson April 04, 2023 The Boeing 737 is forecast to comprise the largest share of narrowbody MRO demand in the Americas between 2023 and 2032. Narrowbody jets are projected to account for 53% of the MRO market in the Americas over the next decade. More than 37,000 MRO events are expected in 2023-32, representing a compound annual growth rate of 3.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg AFI KLM E&M has 3D-printed hundreds of tools and thousands of polymer cabin parts. Additive manufacturing applications for aviation are expanding. The technology started out three decades ago with polymer parts for cabin interiors. Five years ago, it extended to polymer printing for MRO providers and moved into metal manufacturing of a few engine and airframe parts.

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https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Lockheed Martin's F-35 will be the dominant type in service among the Nordic air forces by 2030, with Denmark, Finland and Norway (pictured) set to operate the fighter. Credit: Torbjorn Kjosvold/Norwegian Armed Forces The commanders of the Nordic air forces—of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden—have declared a vision to unify their operations. They want their air forces to operate seamlessly, paving the way for a force greater than the sum of its parts that could also serve as a credible deterrent across a.

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