The News Review:
- French Concorde Crash Manslaughter Trial To Begin In Feb 2010
- Embraer Sets New Record by Delivering 204 Jets in 2008
- Great Lakes adds airline service to four Montana cities
- AIG still looking to sell aircraft leasing company
- AME Info Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates aviation briefs
- Small Plane Crashes in Florida Panhandle Pilot Not Found
French Concorde Crash Manslaughter Trial To Begin In Feb 2010
CNNMoney.com
airline Continental Airlines Inc. (CAL) and twoof its employees for manslaughter over the crash of a Concorde airliner in 2000will start in February next year prosecutors said Monday. A former French civil aviation official and two senior members of the Concordeprogram will be tried on the same charge before a criminal court in Pontoiseoutside Paris. The New York-bound Concorde crashed in a ball of fire shortly after takeofffrom Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on July 25 2000 killing all 109 people onboard and four workers on the ground. The trial of Continental Airlines and the five defendants will open Feb. 22010 the Pontoise prosecutor said. A French accident inquiry concluded in December 2004 the disaster was partlycaused by a strip of metal that fell on the runway from a Continental AirlinesDC-10 plane that took off just before the supersonic airliner.
Embraer Sets New Record by Delivering 204 Jets in 2008
PR Newswire (press release) NY
For the second consecutive year the Company set a new aircraft delivery record delivering 20% more airplanes than in 2007 (169 jets). The last quarter of 2008 was also marked by the delivery of the first two Phenom 100 executive jets. The value of the firm order backlog came to US$ 20. 9 billion on December 31 2008.
Great Lakes adds airline service to four Montana cities
USA Today
(AP) — Beginning Feb. 1 commercial airline service will return to the Montana cities of Glasgow Glendive Havre and Wolf Point. Great Lakes Aviation of Cheyenne Wyo. announced Wednesday it will resume daily flights between the four cities and Billings. Those cities and three others in eastern Montana were served for three decades by Big Sky Airlines but financial problems forced the airline out of business last March. Great Lakes assumed Big Sky’s federal Essential Air Service contract to serve Montana. Essential Air Service is a program offering airlines federal subsidies to serve routes to small cities that otherwise would be unprofitable.
AIG still looking to sell aircraft leasing company
USA Today
But the same frozen credit markets that hurt AIG are making it hard to find a buyer for debt-laden ILFC and the planes it values at some $50 billion. ILFC should be one of AIG’s most attractive assets in part because it has nothing to do with the troubled housing finance sector. Its 950 planes make up the world’s second-largest fleet behind only GE Commercial Aviation Services. ILFC’s customers include Fort Worth-based American Airlines Delta Air Lines JetBlue and US Airways although 90% of its business is done internationally. That has insulated it from the ups and downs of U.
AME Info Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates aviation briefs
TMCnet
ZZZ END –> [January 12 2009] AME Info Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates aviation briefs (AME Info (Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jan. 12–BEING’S DELAY AFFECTS QATAR AIRWAYS EXPANSIN: Qatar Airways is in talks to revise delivery of Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner jet and is seeking compensation after the manufacturer’s latest delay affected the airline’s expansion. Qatar Airways has about 200 planes on order including 30 of Boeing’s Dreamliners. Boeing pushed back the schedule for its troubled 787 Dreamliner for the fourth time last December making its new plane almost two years late.
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Small Plane Crashes in Florida Panhandle Pilot Not Found
FXNews
— Authorities were searching late Sunday night for the pilot of a small plane that crashed in the Florida panhandle officials said. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says only the pilot was aboard the single-engine Piper Malibu. Bergen says the plane apparently crashed at about 9:20 p. The wreckage was found scattered across a swampy area near the city of Milton Fla.