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New incident with a Boeing aircraft: a Delta Air Lines 757 loses nose wheel before takeoff at Atlanta

A Delta Airlines Boeing 757, preparing for takeoff from Atlanta, experienced a nose wheel malfunction, causing the wheel to pop out and roll down...

Small passenger plane makes emergency landing on Virginia Highway after departing Washington Dulles Airport

On 19 January, a small passenger plane, a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan registered N1983X operating Southern Airways Express flight 9X246 from Washington Dulles (IAD)...

SpaceX says propellant venting caused loss of second Starship

WASHINGTON — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk says a propellant dump caused the destruction of the Starship upper stage on a November test flight,...

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Rolled Out At Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works

The X-59 made its official debut at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. NASA and Lockheed Martin rolled out the X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft...

NTSB hunts for bolts from Alaska’s blown-out MAX 9 door plug

American air crash investigators are trying to determine if bolts used to secure the door plug that blew out on an Alaska Airlines 737...

SpaceX targets February for third Starship test flight

NEW ORLEANS — SpaceX expects to conduct the third integrated test flight of its Starship vehicle in February as it works to demonstrate key...

First astronaut missions to the Moon since 1972 delayed due to heat shield questions, hardware readiness

A quartet of astronauts will have to wait until next year before their voyage around the Moon. In a robust update on Tuesday afternoon,...

Many reactions after loss of a window and fuselage panel on an Alaska Boeing 737 MAX 9: Boeing to cooperate, FAA orders grounding, intervention...

After the incident in which an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 lost an emergency exit door shortly after takeoff, there were several reactions...

NASA instruments set to fly on Peregrine commercial lunar lander

WASHINGTON — As NASA prepares for the first launch of a commercial lunar lander carrying agency-sponsored payloads, it is trying to balance the science...

Loose Bolt Prompts 737 Max Inspections

Plane maker Boeing is urging airlines to inspect its 737 Max airplanes for a possible loose bolt in rudder control systems, after an international...

Stowaway in critical condition after surviving Oran-Paris flight in landing gear compartment

French authorities discovered a man in his 20s hidden in the landing gear compartment of Air Algérie flight AH1060 from Oran, Algeria, as the...

Zero Fuel Weight Explained

Zero fuel weight is an important metric for fixed-wing aircraft. Not to be confused with maximum takeoff weight (MTOW), it represents the total weight...

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