Even as the airline awaits directions on the next steps, it will have to spend money to ensure that rodents are kept out of critical areas of the grounded aircraft to avoid damage and allow ease in reactivation.
The proving flights of Jet Airways, in its new avatar, have taken to the skies. After a minimum of 5 such proving flights are flown without any adverse events, the airline can receive the Air Operating Permit (AOP).
Even before official confirmation of the crash of a China Eastern flight, aviation geeks and experts were on flight tracking websites for a glimpse of the flight’s fatal descent. Moneycontrol explains how these websites work.
The source declined to give more details but based his comments on the preliminary examination of the black boxes recovered from the Airbus A321 which crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday killing all 224 people on board.