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Thursday, 31 October 2019

BBC News

• Boeing 'doesn't understand our grief'Zipporah Kuria's father Joseph Waithaka was one of 157 people killed when a Boeing 737 Max crashed in March.
• Bombardier 'on brink of being sold to US firm'Bombardier's Belfast operation was put up for sale in May as part of a reorganisation.
• Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane due to 'cracking'The airline is inspecting its 737 NG fleet after similar discoveries by regulators in the US.

Financial Times

• Airbus looks at changing its UK investment plans after BrexitChief executive says group must consider longer-term implications of Britain’s departure from EU

The Guardian

• Boeing 737 cracks: union calls on Qantas to ground entire 737 fleet for investigationEngineers say 33 planes should be grounded after US aviation regulator asks airlines worldwide to check 737NG fleets for cracking in ‘pickle fork’Australia’s aircraft engineers association has called on Qantas to ground all of its Boeing 737 aircraft after cracks were discovered in one of its planes.Steve Purvinas, the federal secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA), said the fleet of 33 should be “grounded until such time that Qantas can establish which aircraft are safe and which aircraft aren’tâ€�. Continue reading...

The Independent

• Boeing Boss asked 'what does accountability mean' as he is grilled about 737 Max crashes'You're not taking a cut in pay at all?' Congressman Steve Cohen tells Dennis Muilenburg
• The shortest and longest budget flights in EuropeExclusive: We reveal the shortest and longest flights by Europe's biggest budget airlines

Times Online

• Driverless luggage cart helps BA to load planes in no time [Subscription]Driverless vehicles may be years away from joining our roads but one can be seen on the airfield at Heathrow.

Daily Post (North Wales)

• One small step for North Wales space port planMore than £7.5m to be spent to help get region into the space race

Aviation Industry

• Pause runaway expansion in response to climate emergencyThe Government must suspend any increase in UK airport capacity until it has developed a climate change plan for aircraft emissions. The call for an immediate moratorium is set out in a letter to the Secretaries of State for Transport …
• Airbus lowers 2019 delivery target; keeps profit guidance Airbus is cutting back its delivery target by up to 30 aircraft as the manufacturer continues to struggle with restoring throughput at its Hamburg final assembly lines. read more
• Boeing engineer raised MCAS concerns in 2015A Boeing engineer raised concerns about the reliance of a critical 737 MAX flight-control system on a single point of failure as early as December 2015, internal documents shared during a US House committee hearing show. read more