The US FAA tomorrow will mandate that operators of A320-family aircraft perform a one-time inspection to determine if improper post-factory maintenance has been performed on the aircraft's wing flaps.

Every Airbus A320-family aircraft will have parts from India by the end of 2010 when Bengaluru-based Dynamatic Technologies, through its partnership with Spirit AeroSystems Europe Ltd., will make all ...

Landing is one of the most labour-intensive stages of a flight. To help the pilots produce the lowest possible amount of noise in complex manoeuvres during the approach phase, the German Aerospace ...

Finnish investigators have disclosed that a Finnair Airbus A320 descended far below the glidepath to Helsinki after the first officer unintentionally selected flaps-up instead of full-flap on approach ...

A: Flaps (and slats) increase the lift that the wing can produce at lower speed. To keep the takeoff and landing speeds as low as possible, the design engineers include highly efficient flaps (and ...

During a routine training flight over Estonia, an Airbus A320 suddenly suffers multiple system failures — fire in one engine, ...