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March 9, 2020 - by Scott Hamilton for leehamnews.com

Commercial aviation accidents are high profile news events.

These happen rarely. Many times, a lot of people are killed. (It should be noted that often survivors may outnumber those killed as safety improved.)

In this era of 24/7 cable news and minute-by minute social media, everyone wants instant answers as to causes.

Finding answers is not simple. A typical accident investigation usually takes 12-18 months before the...

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United States and Canada Are About To Announce The Shutdown Of Their Airspace

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12:40 - (16:40 UTC) - April 6, 2020 - by Sylvain Faust for fliegerfaust.com

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According to multiple reliable sources the governments of both the United States and Canada are about to announce the shutdown of their airspace to everything but private cargo, government, law enforcement and military aircrafts. The decision should be made public in the next few days.

As for cargo flights, only real "cargo" airplane will be allowed to...

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Bombardier Eyes Resumption Of Toronto Plant Assembling Corporate Jets

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April 9, 2020 - by Allison Lampert for reuters.com

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Bombardier (BBDb.TO) is taking early steps to revive assembly of its most lucrative business jets after production was halted for weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak, even as the pandemic risks sapping demand for corporate aircraft.

Bombardier will bring some employees back to its Toronto plant on Monday for pre-flight activities to support the resumption of operations there on April 27, company spokeswoman Anna Cristofaro said by email.

"Bombardier continues to...

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Is COVID-19 a Force Majeure event?

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April 9, 2020 - by Iain Elder, Nicholas Buckworth, Ben Shorten, Xiaogang (Sean) Wang, Daryl Chew, Jonathan Swil and Danielle Altink from Shearman & Sterling for www.leehamnews.com

Editor's Note: Airbus, Boeing and Embraer and other OEMs face requests for deferrals and perhaps cancellations of orders as a result of COVID-19. In addition, Boeing now faces cancellation requests for the 737 MAX grounding, now in its 13^th month.

While Boeing's contracts generally allow Boeing or the customer to cancel the order after the 12^th month, the COVID crisis raises a new element: canceling by Force Majeure and something called the Doctrine of Frustration.

The following analysis appeared March 12, 2020, on the website of the law firm Shearman & Sterling law firm. The authors are listed at the end of this article. It is reprinted here with permission.

Following the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") that was first reported in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

In this note, we consider how force majeure provisions in commercial contracts and the...

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Here's Why 2 Big Boeing Suppliers Just Called Off Their $6 Billion Merger - What About Bombardier Asset Sales?

A lot has changed since the January deal announcement

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April 9, 2020 - by Lou Whiteman for fool.com

Back in January, aerospace suppliers Woodward (NASDAQ:WWD) and Hexcel (NYSE:HXL), facing increasing competition and pressure due to the grounding of Boeing's (NYSE:BA) 737 MAX, announced plans to combine in a $6.4 billion merger. Fast-forward three months: The 737 MAX is way down on the list of issues aerospace suppliers are facing, and the two companies are calling off the deal.

In a joint statement released on Monday, Woodward and Hexcel said they have decided to terminate their all-stock merger "in response to the increasing impact on both the aerospace and industrial sectors, and global markets broadly" due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The pandemic has resulted in a need for each company to focus on its respective businesses and has impacted the companies' ability to realize the benefits of the merger during these unprecedented times," they said.

The pandemic likely will bring an end to...

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April 9, 2020 - by Red's List source

Some pilots accidentally create a bad situation. Other pilots get caught in a bad situation and make the best of it. Leave a comment on what you think about their flying, or shall I say, landing skills.

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A-10 Forced Emergency Belly Landing At Moody Air Force Base

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April 9, 2020 - by J.D. Simkins for airforcetimes.com

An Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II was forced to make an emergency belly landing at Moody Air Force Base Tuesday as it returned from a routine training operation, WALB News reported.

The single-seat close air support jet, which is assigned to the 75th Fighter Squadron, did not have its landing gear extended when it touched down, officials told WALB...

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All Pratt & Whitney employees to return to work

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April 9, 2020 - by Sylvain Larocque for journaldemontreal.com

Even if Quebec is on "break" until May 4, all employees of the engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) in Longueuil and Mirabel will resume work from Saturday.

However, the Raytheon Technologies subsidiary manufactures engines that propel business jets and airliners (propeller aircraft and Airbus A220).

"We motorize planes that transport drugs, food, medical supplies, and helicopters that carry out emergency evacuation. We also have a military part, "says Daniel Guy, president of the P&WC unit of the Unifor union.

"To say that one piece is essential and another is not, it gets complicated, but I would say that there is a big part that is really essential," he adds.

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Spatial Disorientation Found As Cause of Fatal Plane Crash

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April 9, 2020 - by Shawn Soper for mdcoastdispatch.com

OCEAN CITY — A little over two years after a fatal plane crash in the water just off the coast of the Ocean City Airport claimed the life of the pilot and presumably the female passenger, a report released this week suggests spatial disorientation, a phenomenon associated with night flying, was likely the cause.

On Feb. 28, 2018, a Cessna 172S airplane piloted by Marcson Ngwa, 28, of Windsor Mill, Md. accompanied by Benica Richards-Robinson, 28, of Gwynn Oak, Md., went down in the Atlantic Ocean about a mile from the Ocean City Municipal Airport.

The following morning, when the rented airplane had not returned to Martin State Airport in Baltimore County where the ill-fated flight originated, a massive search effort was initiated.

On March 1, an oil slick was located about two miles...

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"Crazy French safety report: A defense contractor gets offered a joy ride in Rafale B, but fails to strap into seat and helmet properly, then mistakenly yanks ejection handle during negative-g event on take-off climb"

Fighter jet crash averted by defect in civil ejection incident...

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April 9, 2020 - by Clement Charpentreau for aerotime.aero

On March 20, 2019, a civilian passenger was accidentally ejected from a twin-seat Rafale B fighter jet as the aircraft was taking off from Saint-Dizier 113 airbase, eastern France.

The final report of the French investigation bureau for State aviation safety (BEA-E) on the incident outlines a chain reaction of both human and technical failures, one of which unexpectedly prevented the fighter jet from crashing.

Passenger unprepared and mishandled

The civilian passenger, identified by the report as a 64-year-old employee of a French defense manufacturer, was offered a discovery flight on a Dassault Rafale B fighter jet as a surprise by four of his colleagues, including a former pilot of the French Air Force that organized the gift.

The civilian was already nervous when he entered the cockpit,...

Crazy French safety report: A defense contractor gets offered a joy ride in Rafale B, but fails to strap into seat and helmet properly, then mistakenly yanks ejection handle during negative-g event on take-off climb. Rafale, minus backseat, lands safely. https://t.co/vypNLiIPfX pic.twitter.com/mWmMLzTaUY
— Steve Trimble (@TheDEWLine) April 8, 2020

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