January 6, 2012 archive

American Eagle ERJ-145 Incident at Durango-La Plata County Airport

American Eagle ERJ-145

On January 6th, 2012, an American Eagle regional jet with 38 passengers and a crew of three had a failure of its flaps and declared an emergency while operating a flight from from Dallas/Fort Worth to Durango Colorado. The aircraft landed safely and no one was injured. Afterwards,  the aircraft was flown back to Dallas/Fort …

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Bombardier Flight Test Program for CSeries Announced

With the first flight of the CSeries CS100 currently scheduled for the end of 2012, Bombardier announced its flight test programme that will certify the CSeries aircraft by the end of 2013. The 2,400 hour CS100 flight test programme, will be operated by a total of five airframes. The first airframe will be the CS100’s …

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