Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Wide Body Report - April 26, 2016

April 26, 2016


A Pakistani International Airline Boeing 777, en route from Manchester, UK to New York made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport after smoke was reported in a lavatory.
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/243464305/boeing-777-makes-emergency-landing-at-shannon-airport


Another Boeing 777, a Cathay Pacific flight en route from Hong Kong to London made an emergency landing at Chongqing, China after reporting low oil pressure readings in one of its engines.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1937840/london-bound-cathay-flight-engine-trouble-makes


The FAA has ordered that "urgent", mandatory repairs be made on all Boeing 787 jets equipped with GE GEnx-1B PIP2 engines, requiring them to retrofit the anti-icing system on 176 Dreamliners.  The FAA edict affects 44-percent of the Dreamliner fleet.  The FAA order cites a risk of ice accumulation on the fan blades, which resulted in an in-flight shut-down and emergency landing of a Japan Air Lines (JAL) 787 in January.  In the JAL incident, one of the airplane's two engines shut-down due to ice accumulation and could not be restarted.  The pilots made a successful emergency landing on one engine.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/153207/20160424/faa-orders-urgent-fix-for-icing-problems-in-boeing-787-jets.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/24/urgent-repairs-repairs-ordered-on-boeing-787-dreamliner-engines/


Airbus has completed painting the first Thai Airways A350, in preparation for delivery in mid-2016.
http://mro-network.com/news/2016/04/airbus-completes-painting-thai-s-first-a350/10231


Airbus plans to slow production of its A380 super-jumbo airliner, beginning in 2017, as a result of slow sales.
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-airbus-to-cut-output-of-slow-selling-a380-superjumbo-2016-4

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