Safety

The family of a flight student who died in a 2023 Piper Seminole crash in Oregon has filed a lawsuit against the flight school where he was training.

The South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced plans Monday for safety reforms across the country’s aviation sector this year.

The Friday morning evacuation incident followed “an indication of an engine issue,” an airline spokesperson said in a statement.

The crew diverted to Ponta Delgada-Nordela Airport in the Azores. No injuries were reported following the October incident.

South Korea’s government has ordered the inspection of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft in the country following yesterday’s deadly Jeju Air crash.

A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft veered off a runway and burst into flames near Muan, South Korea, on Sunday morning. 181 passengers were onboard.

An Embraer E190 crash in Kazakhstan on Christmas Day may have been caused by a Russian air-defense system, according to a Thursday Reuters report.

A body was found in one of the wheel wells of a United Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner. The aircraft had just operated a flight from Chicago O’Hare to Kahului Airport.

The jet was bound for Grozny Airport on Christmas Day. Reports indicate that five crew members and 62 passengers were onboard. 

A DHL cargo plane crashed as it was trying to land Monday morning at the Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania.