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Air Data News • Ricardo Meier

Russia prepares first Il-114-300 deliveries, but launch customer has yet to receive an aircraft

Russian officials and the Il-114-300’s launch customer have not confirmed that the first production aircraft has been delivered, despite reports describing the program as entering airline service. The aircraft is central to Moscow’s effort to reduce reliance on foreign commercial aircraft and rebuild domestic regional aviation capability.

2026-08-16T13:05:11.143104-07:00
PaxEx   Airports   Accident   Aviation Safety & Regulation  
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Paddle Your Own Kanoo • Mateusz Maszczynski

Fire Erupts in Luggage Container Moments Before it Was Due to Be Loaded on Packed British Airways Plane at Milan Malpensa

By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: What to Know A fire broke out in a luggage container moments before it was due to be loaded onto a British Airways flight at Milan Malpensa, with a lithium battery suspected as the cause.

2026-08-16T08:20:22.150788-07:00
Europe   Airports   Accident   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Airlines   Boeing  
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Aviation24 • Bart Noëth

Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 Reportedly Overruns Runway During Takeoff From Munich

By Aviation24: German airline SUNDAIR has launched a new nonstop service between Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) and Damascus, restoring direct flights between the German capital region and Syria for the first time since 2011.

Also: Reuters, aviationnews.eu, Paddle Your Own Kanoo, Aviation24, One Mile at a Time, Aviation A2Z, thebulkheadseat.com, aeroxplorer.com and The Independent
2026-08-15T08:06:08.216320-07:00
Europe   Airports   Accident   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Boeing  
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FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

Vietnam 787-9 apparently damaged after laboured take-off from Munich

By FlightGlobal: Hanoi-bound aircraft returned to German hub after holding for 2h. Investigators are probing an apparent laboured take-off by a Vietnam Airlines Boeing 787-9 at Munich, which appears to have resulted in substantial damage to the twinjet.

Also: Simple Flying and airlive.net
2026-08-15T12:50:02.946985-07:00
ATC   Accident   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Airlines   Boeing 737  
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FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

American 737-800s involved in Phoenix conflict had identical callsigns

By FlightGlobal: Controller acted to separate converging outbound and inbound services on Chicago O'Hare route. Air-ground radio communications have revealed that a controller at Phoenix had to resolve an extraordinary conflict between outbound and inbound American Airlines Boeing 737-800s that were using identical callsigns.

Also: The Independent and The Independent
2026-08-15T03:36:05.829409-07:00
ATC   Airports   Accident   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Airlines   Boeing 737  
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Paddle Your Own Kanoo • Mateusz Maszczynski

‘It Could Have Been Disastrous’: Air Traffic Controller Carefully Handles Two American Airlines Planes With the Same Callsign as They Flew Towards One Another

By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: An air traffic controller at Phoenix International Airport (PHX) is winning praise for the calm way that he handled two American Airlines planes with the exact same callsign heading towards one another with just a couple of thousand feet vertical separation between the two… Something that the controller said he hadn’t.

Also: Simple Flying, Associated Press, Bloomberg, One Mile at a Time, CBS News and The Independent
2026-08-14T08:20:35.273073-07:00