Ural Airlines appears to be preparing to undertake what—if successful—would amount to the heroically unlikely retrieval of an Airbus A320 stranded in a Siberian field following a 12 September 2023 emergency landing. Aviation industry pundits posit Ural’s intention to retrieve the ill-fated A320 evinces the paucity of functional aircraft available to Russian airlines in the wake of wartime sanctions imposed upon the nation following Moscow’s February 2022 move against Ukraine.
On 14 September 2023, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General forwarded a memorandum comprising an audit announcement pertaining to the FAA’s oversight of SkyWest Airlines’ maintenance program. Subject memo, as penned by DOT Assistant Inspector General for Aviation Audits Nelda Z. Smith read ...
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