New Liberian airline: dark history, beauty queens and no aircraft
Lone Star Air, Liberian national airline, was officially launched on October 30, 2020. However, many questions can be…
International Civil Aviation Organization
243 articles
Boeing 737 MAX crisis: Losing the narrative (Part IV)
This article was originally published on AeroTime News on August 16, 2019. If you have missed the third part of…
Data extraction of Ukraine Flight 752 shot down by Iran begins
After months of dithering, Iran sent to France the flight recorders of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800…
Iran and Ukraine to reopen talks over PS752 crash compensations
The back-and-forth negotiations between Ukraine and Iran continue regarding the compensation of relatives of the victims that were…
PS752: black box data confirms “illegal interference” by Iran
The preliminary analysis of the data extracted from the two recorders of the Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752…
UIA Flight PS752 shot down due to series of human mistakes
In an interim report, the Civil Aviation Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran believes a “human error”…
PS752: Iran turns down compensation talks with Ukraine
Yet another twist in the ongoing negotiations around the crash of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752: days…
Four historical crashes that lead to safer sky nowadays
Experts claim that the risk of dying on a plane is one in 11,000,000, when dying in a…
The unwanted child Middle seat: sacrifice or just smokescreen?
The unwritten etiquette onboard an aircraft states that the one that gets the aisle seat, gets to enjoy…
FL ARI receives EASA Part 145 certificate in China
FL ARI Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering Company Ltd (“FL ARI”), a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service provider…
Iran to send UAI’s downed Flight PS752 black boxes to Ukraine
Iran agreed to send the black boxes of the downed Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 to Ukraine. Iranian officials…
UK’s regulator CAA to leave EASA after Brexit period
At the end of the post-Brexit transition period, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) intends to withdraw from the…
Report: European airports resilient to coronavirus
S&P Global Ratings estimates that novelty coronavirus, Covid-19, outbreak would only have a limited impact on European airports,…
Airline consolidation in Europe: worrying times for the industry
While consolidation looks like a complex and long process that two or more companies undertake for one reason…
Flight 752: Iran halts cooperation with Ukraine after audio leak
Iran halted its cooperation with Ukraine after the leak of conversation recording between an air traffic controller of…
No plans to send UIA Flight PS752 black box to Ukraine: Iran
Following the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737NG, Iranian authorities are deciding what to do with the…
Iran refuses to deliver black boxes of UIA crash to Boeing
The Iranian authorities do not intend to give Boeing and the U.S. authorities the flight recorders of the…
BREAKING | Ukraine Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Iran, 176 dead
Ukraine International Airlines plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Iran during the early morning hours of January 8,…