BRASILIA — A Brazilian court has convicted two American pilots for their role in a 2006 midair crash with a Brazilian airliner that killed 154 people, but commuted their jail terms, angering victims’ families, AFP reported Tuesday. Relatives of people killed in the accident said in a statement Tuesday that they were “disappointed and angry” …
Monthly Archive: May 2011
Continental retires first 767-224, N68155 – OPShots.net
May 17, 2011. The first Continental 767-200 (N68155, 767-224ER, cn 30434) to retire from the new CO/UA fleet was flown to Goodyear, Arizona (GYR) today for storage, and rumored onward delivery to an unnamed Russian carrier. Delivered to Continental in February 2001, the aircraft is just over ten years in age and the first 767 …
New hangar space at Cleveland’s Burke Lakefront Airport could mark start of lakefront plan | cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Efforts to build hangar space for an aircraft maintenance company at Burke Lakefront Airport could prove the first piece of the city of Cleveland’s larger, expansive plans for redeveloping the lakefront. Constant Aviation, a company based at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, is looking for as much as 100,000 square feet at Burke. …
Long distance engine change – Nolinor Cargo rescues stricken sister-ship at Cleveland in 2009 – OPShots.net
On the early Thursday morning of August 20, 2009, C-GNRL, a classic Convair 580 operated by Nolinor Cargo of Canada departed from Cincinnati’s Northern Kentucky International (CVG/KCVG), airport on the return leg of a nightly round-trip from Montréal-Trudeau (YUL/CYUL) airport in Québec, Canada. The routing for these flights regularly take a path directly through Cleveland …