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FAA Changes ETOPS Regs

The FAA has published a comprehensive final rule that "further reduces the risks for passengers and crews flying long-range regularly scheduled commercial routes over remote areas."

AD NUMBER: 2006-26-11 MANUFACTURER: Empresa SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2006-26-11 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Embraer Model ERJ 170 and ERJ 190 airplanes.

AD: Airbus

AD NUMBER: 2006-26-12 MANUFACTURER: Airbus SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2006-26-12 SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD), which applies to all Airbus Model A330, A340-200, and A340-300 series airplanes.

AD: Boeing

AD NUMBER: 2006-26-09 MANUFACTURER: Boeing SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2006-26-09 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 737-200, -300, -400, and -500 series airplanes.

Search Intensifies For Missing Adam Air 737

Families Of Those Missing Confront VP

Indonesia deployed more troops and helicopters to join the search of an Indonesian Boeing 737-400 that vanished from radar screens January 1, while a US military aircraft arrived at a Makassar air base to assist.

Northwest Set To Retire Its Last DC-10s

Workhorse Plane Introduced in 1972

Talk about the end of an era.... Northwest is taking its DC-10s out of scheduled passenger service, after more than 30 years. The final flight was scheduled to leave Honolulu Sunday, and arrive in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN early Monday morning.

Twenty-Somethings Flock To India Cockpits Amidst Pilot Shortage

Young People Taking To The Skies

As Aero-News reported last week, the law of supply and demand is at work in India... a country struggling to find pilots to fly its ever-expanding fleet of airliners. But instead of looking outside the country for new recruits, some India airlines say native twenty-somethings are answering the call, and flocking to flight training programs.