Aviation events

Ten days after the crash of the Germanwings A320 in the French Alps, the aircraft’s second black box, the FDR (Flight Data Recorder) has been recovered.
 

On 1st April, eight days after the crash of the Germanwings A320, the heads of Lufthansa and their subsidiary flew by helicopter to Seyne les Alpes (France), from where the search is being coordinated.
 

On March 29th an Air Canada Airbus A320 exited the runway while landing in Halifax. Of the 138 people onboard, 23 were slightly injured. An investigation has been launched by the Transport Canada Civil Aviation authority.
 

At a press conference held today (26th March), the prosecutor of Marseille (sourthern France), delivered the last elements of the investigation into the crash of the Germanwings Airbus A320. The hypothesis is that the first officer had "the will to destroy the aircraft".
 

According to the New York Times, one of the two pilots was outside the cockpit, and unable to regain access. According to the CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) recording, he repeatedly knocked on the door, but without response.
 

A black box recovered, together with its cockpit voice recorder (CVR), damaged but usable, that, in essence, is the information with which we came away from the press conference organized by the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC), on 25th March.
 

On 24th March, a Germanwings Airbus A320 with 150 people on board, crashed in the south of France, leaving no survivors.
 

A Germanwings Airbus A320 has crashed in south western France today, March 24th. 150 people were onboard the aircraft. According to French President François Hollande, there are no survivors.
 

Swimmer Camille Muffat, sailor Florence Arthaud, boxer Alexis Vastine, and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in Argentina, last Monday. They were participating in a reality show, called "Dropped", produced by the company ALP, for a French television channel, scheduled for broadcast this summer.
 

It was at the Aero India air and defence show, held from 18th to 22nd February, at Bangalore in southern India, that the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced an about turn, by advocating : "Made in India".
 

At Zhuhai in China, it is a little like Christmas in advance. 700 aviation industry manufacturers, more than half of whom being Chinese, are gathered together to exhibit their new "toys". From November 11th to 16th about fifty kilometres (30 miles) as the crow flies, west of Hong Kong, the China Airshow is an opportunity for the country to present its range of military aircraft.
 

Four days after the crash of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo vessel in the California desert, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is hard at work to determine the causes of the accident. Investigators have found that the copilot carried out an abnormal action in the cockpit two seconds before the disintegration of the aircraft.
 

The Helitech International show, dedicated to helicopters, this year is in Amsterdam in the Netherlands from 14th to 16th October, and the organizers hope to draw crowds and exceed the 5,600 trade visitors at the previous edition in the United Kingdom. This time, a number of new features will be presented.
 

Aviation enthusiasts of all kinds are present at Airventure from July 28th., to August 3rd., at Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the United States, making it none other than the largest U.S. aerospace gathering annually attracting 10,000 aircraft.