The National Transportation Safety Board is
dispatching a team of investigators to assist the government of
China in its investigation of Saturday's crash of a
Boeing/McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, operated by Avient Air
(registration Z-BAV).
ALPA ended this week with applause for the US House
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee resistance of pressure
from airlines and battery interests and for their issuing a strong
mandate to fully regulate the shipment of lithium batteries on
airliners in its recently passed version of the Hazardous Material
Transportation Safety Act of 2009 (H.R.4016).
Low-Cost Airline Bumps Up Its Firm Orders For The Embraer
190
Embraer and Austria’s second largest airline Niki
Luftfahrt GmbH signed a contract for another two Embraer 190 jets,
confirming the purchase rights in the original contract which was
announced in July 2008. The initial deliveries of this new order
should take place during the first half of 2011.
MANUFACTURER: McDonnell Douglas Corporation
Model DC- 10-10 and DC-10-10F Airplanes, Model DC-10-15 Airplanes,
Model DC-10-30 and DC-10-30F (KC-10A and KDC-10) Airplanes, Model
DC-10-40 and DC-10- 40F Airplanes, Model MD-10-10F and MD-10-30F
Airplanes, and Model MD-11 and MD-11F Airplanes
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