Aeroméxico filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, declaring assets and liabilities of $1 billion to $10 billion, making it the third major Latin American airline to file for bankruptcy during the Covid-19 pandemic; its major creditor is the Bank of New York Mellon: $411.4 million.
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A federal watchdog report released Wednesday found that Boeing failed to provide regulators with documents about changes it made in a key system blamed for the deadly crashes of two 737 Max jets last year.
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Requests from defense attorneys for further investigation into the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over Ukraine are out of line, the prosecution said Friday during a trial in the Netherlands.
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Pakistan’s state-run airline said Thursday it will ground 150 pilots, accusing them of getting licenses by having others take exams for them, an accusation that followed a probe into a May crash that killed 97 people in Karachi.
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Lufthansa shareholders approved an $11 billion rescue package Thursday that will see the German government take a 20% stake after management told them the airline was running out of money and faced years of reduced demand for air travel.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday to require intelligence agencies and the Defense Department to publicly track and analyze data collected on “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” commonly referred to as UFOs.
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Defense lawyers in the Netherlands trial over the MH17 plane crash called the investigation into the downing of the passenger jet worrying and suggested it might have been manipulated by Ukraine.
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Defense lawyers for one of the four men charged with the downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet spent Monday questioning the six-year investigation that concluded the plane was shot down by Ukrainian separatists using a surface-to-air missile.
Read moreInstead of climbing above the clouds, the pilot of the helicopter in the crash that killed Kobe Bryant and seven other passengers descended into a hillside where it crashed north of Los Angeles, according to a new government report released Wednesday.
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Three months after the House issued a critical report on a pair of airline crashes that killed hundreds, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration and the father of one Massachusetts victim testified Wednesday at the Senate.
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Three major airlines have launched legal action against the British government, describing the country’s plan to quarantine most incoming travelers as “flawed.”
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Under new rules announced Thursday by the finance department, federal Swiss officials will have to take the train — not a plane — where available for work trips.
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Experts are calling it the worst year in the history of aviation, but New York grasped at some normalcy Wednesday as Governor Andrew Cuomo cut a ribbon at a new LaGuardia Airport concourse.
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Russia’s alternative theories about how a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 are not plausible, a Dutch public prosecutor said during the trial of four men accused of helping to bring it down.
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The trial of four men charged with 298 counts of murder for their alleged role in the downing of a Malaysian Airlines plane resumed Monday after a delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a ban on commercial passenger flights by Chinese carriers to the U.S., effective June 16, in a move meant to penalize Beijing for not allowing American airlines to resume scheduled flights to China.
Read moreSouth America’s biggest airline sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday as it grapples with the sharp downturn in air travel sparked by the coronavirus pandemic.
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President Trump announced Thursday the U.S. will soon exit a treaty that allows more than 30 nations to fly over each other’s territory with sensors that can detect military equipment.
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Police have yet to release the name of a man who was killed Thursday night when he was struck by an incoming plane at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
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