Buddha Air’s (Kathmandu) yesterday (September 25) flight U4 103ย crashed while operating a sightseeing flight of the Mount Everest region. The flight, operating with Beech (Raytheon) 1900D 9N-AEK (msn UE-295) with 19 passengers, mostly foreign tourists, crashed in Nepal. The aircraft lost contact with the control tower at Kathmandu International Airport 42 minutes after departing.
16 passengers (10 Indians, two Americans, one Japanese ย and three Nepalis) and three crew members were on the flight and were killed in the crash. The airliner crashed and burn while flying in low clouds and fog in the skies above Badegaun, a few miles from the airport.
Buddha Air operates two ATR 72-500s, three ATR 42-320s and before the crash four Beech 1900Ds. The Beech 1900D is pictured on the right (Buddha Air):
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Read the full report from the Los Angeles Times: CLICK HERE
Boeing (Chicago) and ANA (All Nippon Airweays) (Tokyo) yesterday (September 25) as planned signed the formal documents completing the contractual delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner. Celebrations to mark this historic milestone begin today in Everett with a delivery ceremony followed by flyaway of the airplane on Tuesday. The signing comes after a series of flights, inspections and the transfer of funds.
Celebrations for Boeing employees begin Monday at 6 a.m. (0600) (Pacific time) outside the 787 factory in Everett with the static display of ZA002, one of the flight test airplanes painted in ANA’s livery. ANA and Boeing executives, employees, partners and government officials will gather at 9 a.m. (0900) for the delivery ceremony in the same location. The pictured “Airplane 24”, painted in ANA’s special livery, will join the display during the ceremony. Flyaway of the airplane to Tokyo is scheduled for Tuesday morning at 6:35 a.m. (0635) from Paine Field.
A live webcast of Monday’s delivery events and Tuesday’s flyaway can be seen at www.newairplane.com. Video highlights of those events also will be posted to the website.
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JetBlue Airways (New York) on September 17 started flying a weekly charter flight for Airline Brokers from Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood to Havana and return. The weekly flight will operate on Saturdays with Airbus A320s.
Frontier Airlines (2nd) (Denver) is downsizing the Milwaukee hub as we previously reported. The downsizing will now affect 213 positions at MKE effective November 14.
Baltia Air Lines (New York-JFK) has been one of the longest-running start-ups. The company has painted its first Boeing 747. Formerly operated by Northwest Airlines as N623US, 747-251B N706BL (msn 21705) has become the first aircraft for the new airline now undergoing FAA certification.
Once the Part 121 AOC is obtained, the airline intends to inaugurate nonstop passenger service from New York (JFK) to St. Petersburg, Russia. Baltia plans to expand later to Moscow, Kiev, Riga, and Minsk.
EasyJet (easyJet.com) (London-Luton) founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has withdrawn his request for an extraordinary general meeting to remove Professor Rigas Doganis as a non-executive director on the airline’s board of directors. This withdrawn falls after the company paid out a dividend payment to all stockholders including the Haji-Ioannou family.
Read the full report from The Guardian: CLICK HERE
United Airlines (Chicago) is shaping up as the next battleground between Airbus and Boeing. The holding company is now shopping for up to 200 narrow body aircraft.
Read the full report from the Chicago Tribune: CLICK HERE
Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) (1st) (New York and Miami) is making a lot of headlines lately due to the increased interest as a result of the new American TV show called “Pan Am” on ABC. The new TV show premieres this Sunday.
Pan Am International Flight Academy is a scheduled stop for the much anticipated “Worldwide Family Reunion” of former Pan Am Employees being held on October 20 – 23, 2011 in Miami, Florida.
According to the organizers, former employees, friends and family of Pan Am International Flight Academy’s founding airline, Pan American Airways, affectionately known as Pan Am, together with aviation aficionados from all over the globe and every division of the company, are expected to attend the reunion being held in the Dinner Key/Coconut Grove area of Miami (the flying clipper boats would depart from Dinner Key, now the city hall of the city of Miami). Attendees will be celebrating the Centennial of Aviation in Miami as they honor the enormous part the airline played in shaping aviation history while also marking 20 years since the close of one of the country’s most iconic pioneering companies.
Interest in “Pan Am” is at an all-time high. Along with the noteworthy rise and continued success of the former airline’s only remaining division, Pan Am International Flight Academy – providing training solutions worldwide, there is the much-anticipated ABC network television series “Pan Am,” and the musical “Catch Me If You Can” is now running on Broadway.
Other reunion events include a “Hangar Party,” to be held in the historic Coast Guard Hangar on the shores of Biscayne Bay in Dinner Key which the original Pan Am Clippers once called home during the pioneering days of aviation, as well as tours of the special exhibit “Aviation in Miami: The First 100 Years” at HistoryMiami in downtown Miami.
JetBlue Airways (New York) wants to increase its presence at Boston’s Logan International Airport from 100 daily flights to 150 according to this article by the Boston Business Journal and CEO Dave Barger. JetBlue wants to take over all of Terminal C at BOs.
The company is also considering adding service at Providence and Worcester.
Slovakian Airlines (Bratislava) is the latest scheduled airline in Slovakia. The newcomer has painted its first Boeing 737-500 pictured at Norwich. Two additional copies are expected to be added for the airline which is in the process of obtaining its AOC.
Boeing 737-55S EK-73771 (msn 28471), formerly operated by Armavia, will become OM-BTS on delivery. The airframe is named M. R. Stefanik. Milan Rastislav ล tefรกnik was a Slovak politician, diplomat, and astronomer. Bratislava’s airport is also named after this famous Slovak.
Buddha Air’s (Kathmandu) yesterday (September 25) flight U4 103ย crashed while operating a sightseeing flight of the Mount Everest region. The flight, operating with Beech (Raytheon) 1900D 9N-AEK (msn UE-295) with 19 passengers, mostly foreign tourists, crashed in Nepal. The aircraft lost contact with the control tower at Kathmandu International Airport 42 minutes after departing.
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