Plane Was Being Moved To A Maintenance Hangar, No Passengers On Board
A Southwest Airlines 737 being moved from a passenger gate to a hangar for maintenance went off a taxiway at Orlando International Airport Tuesday night, and caused one runway at the airport to be closed for a portion of the day Wednesday.
Capt. Sam Pool Will Continue As Chairman Of The Executive Council
Pilot leaders at Envoy Air, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), re-elected their current officers to serve additional two-year terms beginning September 8, 2015. Continuing to serve on behalf of their pilots as Envoy Air Master Executive Council (MEC) officers are: Capt. Sam Pool, chairman; Capt. James Funderburk, vice chairman; and F/O Stephan Ramos, secretary-treasurer.
Japanese regional carrier Amakusa Airlines took delivery in Toulouse of a 48-seat ATR 42-600, the first of the type to start operations in Japan. For almost 15 years, the airline has been providing regular scheduled regional services connecting the city of Amakusa off the coast of mainland Kyushu in southwestern Japan to large cities such as Kumamoto, Fukuoka, and Osaka.
Says Contacts Are Old, Had Been Previously Discounted
The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB) says that recent articles suggesting that sonar images gathered during the underwater search for MH370 could be aircraft debris are incorrect.
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