The latest aviation news and site updates from Aircraftspotting.net http://www.aircraftspotting.net/aircraftspotting.rss A DC-9 cargo aircraft operated by USA Jet crashed near Saltillo, Mexico, killing the captain and iunjuring the co-pilot. The aircraft was carrying spare parts for cars... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/july_08.html#dc9_crash A Boeing 747 Freighter of Kalitta Air crashed after take-off from Bogota in Colombia. The eight crew members survived but two people on the ground were killed. Kalitta lost another 747 on May 25 in Brussels... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/july_08.html#kalitta_crash The Thai CAA have grounded One-Two-Go and its parent company Orient Thai due to discrepancies and safety concerns... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/july_08.html#12go_caa A B-52 bomber of the USAF crashed into sea after take-off from Guam, killing all six crew members... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/july_08.html#b52_crash A Boeing 747 of Qantas made an emergency landing in Manila with a large hole in its fuselage. The aircraft had suffered an explosive decompression while at cruising altitude... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/july_08.html#qantas_747 Emirates has taken delivery of its first Airbus A380, after a delay of almost two years. The airline will operate its first (special) passenger flight with the A380 from Dubai to New York on August 1... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/july_08.html#emirates_a380 Emirates has placed an order for 30 Airbus A330-300s and 30 A350XWBs, the latter being a convertion of an option on the planes the airline took in late 2007... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/july_08.html#emirates_airbus Eight people were killed when a Hawker 800 crashed during approach of a regional airport in Minnesota, while five died when a Grumman Goose crashed on Vancouver Island... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#goose_crash British Airways has ordered six Boeing 777-300ERs to replace part of its 747-400 fleet... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#ba_773er Qantas will receive its first Airbus A380 on 19 September. The first commercial flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles will be operated on 20 October... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#qantas_a380 Malev will cut 400 jobs and stop long-haul operations while Spanair will retire 15 aircraft and cut almost 1000 jobs... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#spanair_cuts An MD-82 of Spanair crashed while attempting to take off from Madrid's Barajas Airport. At the time of writing, reports indicated that only 26 of the 173 people on board survived the accident... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#spanair_crash A Boeing 737 of Kyrgyz carrier Itek Air crashed while attempting to return to Bishkek Airport. Reportedly 25 of the 90 people on board survived the accident... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#bishkek_crash A Beech King Air crashed after take-off from a regional airport in Utah, USA, killing all ten occupants. In Guatemala, a Cessna Caravan hit a mountain, claiming the lives of at least ten people... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#caravan_crash The loss of cabin pressure of a Ryanair Boeing 737 caused injuries to 16 people, who were hospitalised following an emergency landing at Limoges Airport... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#ryanair_emergency A Sun Air Boeing 737-200 was hijacked after leaving Nyala and landed in Kufrah, Libya. At the time of writing, all passengers had been released but the seven crew members were still being held hostage. The hijacker or hijackers demand to be flown to Paris... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#sudan_hijack A Sriwijaya Boeing 737-200 overran the runway upon landig at Jambi, injuring 18 people, some of them seriously... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#indonesia_737 Canadian-UK carrier Zoom Airlines has ceased all operations and started administration procedures in both countries... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/august_08.html#zoom_ops The webmaster of Aircraftspotting.net would like to inform you that the file extensions of the website pages have been changed from .html to .php. If you have any difficulty viewing a page, please check if the link to the webpage address contains a ".php" extension. If not, you can change this yourself. For example, if you try to view any of the RSS news items before September, the link will be to a file with an .html extension. You can simply change the extension manually in the address bar of your web browser. Apologies for any inconvenience this website upgrade may cause. http://www.aircraftspotting.net The site in Ecuador has been found where a Conviasa Boeing 737-200 crashed on August 31, killing the two pilots and an engineer... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/september_08.php#ecuador_crash Turkish airline Pegasus has doubled its order for Boeing 737-800s from 12 to 24... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/september_08.php#pegasus_737 A Beech 1900 operated by Air Serv has gone missing during a flight in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo... http://www.aircraftspotting.net/news/september_08.php#congo_flight