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Last Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2025, 4:04 AM PDT
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FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
Maintenance Errors Misled Superjet 100 Crew into Overspeed, Causing Fatal Dive
By FlightGlobal: Russian investigators believe the crew of a Yakovlev Superjet 100 thought the aircraft was experiencing an air-data system fault relating to airspeed, rather than a highly-improbable angle-of-attack discrepancy, before the jet fatally dived into a forest about 6min after take-off.
Paddle Your Own Kanoo
• Mateusz Maszczynski
Southwest Airlines 737 Performs Emergency Descent To Avoid Midair Collision on Burbank–Las Vegas Flight
By Paddle Your Own Kanoo: The pilots of a Southwest Airlines flight from Burbank, California, to Las Vegas had to make the “most insane dive ever” on Friday morning in order to avoid a mid-air collision with another plane.
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Associated Press,
ABC News,
Wings,
View from the Wing,
Aviation A2Z,
One Mile at a Time,
Military Times,
CNBC,
NBC News,
The Guardian,
The Independent
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Bloomberg
• Mary Schlangenstein
American Airlines’ First A321XLR Grounded by Seat Supply Chain Shortage
By Bloomberg: American Airlines Group Inc. finally has taken possession of its first long-range Airbus SE A321XLR aircraft, but the plane will remain in Europe because of a supply chain issue that’s caused a shortage of seats.
Also:
One Mile at a Time
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FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
Work begins to adapt new PD-8 engine to Be-200 firefighting amphibian
By FlightGlobal: Work has started to adapt the Aviadvigatel PD-8 engine to the Beriev Be-200 amphibious firefighter, according to Russian state technology firm Rostec. United Aircraft manufactures the jet-powered amphibian at its Taganrog aviation plant near Rostov-on-Don.
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Flying Magazine
• Zach Vasile
US Senators Urge Transportation Secretary to Oppose Single-Pilot Flights
By Flying Magazine: A group of 45 U.S. senators is urging Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to take a firmer stand against efforts to examine and test out proposals for having a single pilot operate commercial passenger flights.
al-monitor.com
Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over forced strip-searches
By al-monitor.com: By Christine ChenSYDNEY (Reuters) -Five Australian women who say they were pulled from a Qatar Airways flight by armed guards and strip-searched have won the right to sue the airline, after a court on Thursday overturned an earlier decision to throw out the case.Women on 10 Qatar Airways flights, including 13 Australians, were subjected to invasive examinations to see if they had recently given birth after a newborn baby was found abandoned at Doha's Hamad Airport in October 2020.
Aviation Source
Australian Court Grants Women Right to Sue Qatar Airways Over 2020 Doha Strip-Search
Australian Aviation
Qatar invasive search victims can sue airline, court rules
Vertical Mag
MD Helicopters Unveils Super D20B Upgrade for MD 500D Fleet
By Vertical Mag: VIDEO: Introducing the MD Super D20B Helicopter: A New Chapter for the Iconic 500DMD Helicopters is breathing new life into the legendary MD 500D with the all-new Super D20B — the first in a series of performance upgrades for the company’s global legacy fleet.
