Boeing in talks to sell up to 500 planes to China
US aviation giant Boeing is in talks to sell up to 500 aircraft to Chinese companies, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing sources familiar with the matter...
Tags : aircraft
Coding the 鈥榖anality of evil鈥�
ABOUT a month ago, a military training aircraft crashed onto Milestone School in Dhaka, killing 30 people, including many children, in a fiery explosion. When I saw the news, I fell into silence. But strangely, I noticed something: I didn鈥檛 feel the same deep shock I once would have. A few years ago, such a tragedy would have devastated me 鈥� I鈥檇 have spent the day in...
Greece gets EU help to battle disastrous wildfires
Greece on Sunday was battling wildfires that have ravaged homes and sparked evacuations, with Czech firefighters and Italian aircraft being deployed to help...
Prime Bank to give Tk聽5 Crore to support victims of Milestone plane crash
Prime Bank PLC has committed to contribute of Tk聽5 crore to support the medical treatment and rehabilitation of the critically injured students and teachers of the tragic aircraft crash at Milestone School and College at Uttara in Dhaka...
MCCI mourns BAF jet crash incident
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka has expressed its profound shock and deepest sorrow at the tragic crash of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft into Milestone School and college campus in Uttara, Dhaka on Monday...
The system forgot to be reliable
The crash of the F-7 aircraft over Dia Bari is not merely a tragic accident; it is the tragic symptom of a deeper and chronic institutional pathology. What we are witnessing is not the result of a single point of failure, but rather the slow-motion collapse of an organisational logic that tolerates decay, rewards negligence and defers accountability 鈥� until the cost is measured in human lives...
Kuwait expresses condolences over BAF jet crash
Kuwait embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday expressed deep condolences and sympathy to Bangladesh following the tragic crash of a Bangladesh Air Force aircraft in the capital on Monday...
Health ministry confirms 27 deaths till Tuesday morning
The death toll in Bangladesh Airforce aircraft crash on Monday rises to 27 till Tuesday morning...
Stand by aircraft crash victims, Tarique urges party activists
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman has called upon leaders, activists, and professionals of the party to stand by the affected in a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crash on the Milestone School and College campus in the capital鈥檚 Uttara Diabari area this afternoon...
Fakhrul mourns lives lost in BAF aircraft crash in Uttara
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has expressed deep sorrow over the loss of lives in the tragic crash of a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI training aircraft on Milestone School and College compound in the capital鈥檚 Diabari area...
Yunus expresses deep sorrow over BAF training aircraft crash
Chief adviser Professor Muhammed Yunus on Monday expressed deep shock and sorrow over the tragic crash of a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI training aircraft on Milestone School and College compound in the capital鈥檚 Diabari area...
Bangladesh declares one-day state mourning Tuesday for BAF aircraft crash victims
The national flag will fly at half-mast today as the interim government has announced a one-day state mourning in the tragic incident of a fighter plane crash on the Milestone School and College campus, killing at least 20 children and adults...
Toll of Air India disaster rests at 260 as focus turns to crash report
Indian forensic investigators have identified all 260 people killed in last month鈥檚 crash of a London-bound passenger plane, health authorities said Wednesday, ahead of a hugely anticipated preliminary report into what went wrong...
Biman to lease two aircraft soon: CEO
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is set to lease at least two aircraft in the coming months to address an acute shortage of planes to meet growing passenger demand...
2 Chinese aircraft carriers seen in Pacific: Japan
Two Chinese aircraft carriers were operating in the Pacific for the first time, according to Japan, whose defence minister said Tuesday the move revealed the expansion of Beijing鈥檚 military activities.
Taiwan detects 45 Chinese aircraft in 24 hours
Taiwan said on Thursday it detected 45 Chinese aircraft near the self-ruled island, the highest number this year and a tally that comes a day after Taipei condemned China鈥檚 鈥榣ive-fire鈥� drills off the south.
Taiwan detects 62 Chinese aircraft as US ships transit waters
Taiwan said Wednesday it detected 62 Chinese military aircraft near the self-ruled island this week, as two US ships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait...
Boeing invests $1b to boost 787 production
US aerospace firm Boeing will invest $1 billion to ramp up production of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft in South Carolina, the company said in a statement...
5 Biman officials jailed in Tk 1,164cr loss case
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent five former officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines to jail in a case over leasing two faulty Boeing 777 aircraft from Egypt that led to a loss of Tk 1,164 crore...
Boeing to raise more than expected from new stock offering
US aircraft maker Boeing said Tuesday it will raise more money than initially expected from a new stock offering to offset crushing production woes and a major strike...
Taiwan detects 153 Chinese military aircraft
Taiwan detected a record 153 Chinese military aircraft around the self-ruled island, official data showed Tuesday, after China held a day of large-scale drills.
Malaysia Airlines finds 鈥榩otential issue鈥� on A350-900 engine
Malaysia Airlines said on Friday it had found a 鈥榩otential issue鈥� with the engine of an Airbus A350-900 aircraft in its fleet but added that it had been resolved...
Taliban celebrate 3 years since Afghanistan takeover with military show
Afghanistan鈥檚 Taliban rulers celebrated three years in power on Wednesday with a military parade paying homage to their homemade bombs used in war, fighter aircraft and goose-stepping security forces...
Boeing orders rebound in July thanks to Farnborough Airshow
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing鈥檚 orders rebounded in July after a first half of the year overshadowed by quality control problems, and remained on track with deliveries, according to data unveiled Tuesday...
Dozens of Chinese warplanes detected around Taiwan
Taiwan鈥檚 defence ministry said Friday it had detected 36 Chinese military aircraft around the island in the previous 24 hours.
Ukraine says hit Su-57 fighter jet inside Russia
Ukraine said on Sunday it had hit an Su-57 fighter jet parked at an airfield in southern Russia, its first ever attack on Moscow鈥檚 latest generation stealth aircraft...
21 Chinese planes detected by Taiwan days after drills
Taipei said Monday it had detected 21 Chinese military aircraft and 15 navy or coastguard vessels around Taiwan in the past 24 hours, days after Beijing encircled the island in a massive military drill...
45 Chinese aircraft detected around Taiwan
Taipei said on Wednesday it had detected 45 Chinese military aircraft around Taiwan, the聽 highest single-day number this year and coming less than a week before the self-ruled island inaugurates its new president who China regards as a 鈥榙angerous separatist鈥�...
Taiwan detects 21 Chinese military aircraft around the island
Taipei鈥檚 defence ministry said it had detected 21 Chinese military aircraft around the self-ruled island since 8:15 am (0015 GMT) on Saturday, a month before Taiwan鈥檚 May 20 inauguration of incoming president Lai Ching-te....