The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) updated and extended the validity of its Conflict Zone Information Bulletins for Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, and Somalia to 23 October 2018.
23 April 2018The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) released a factual update on its investigation (A17C0146) into the fatal ATR 42 aircraft accident that occurred in Fond-du-Lac, Saskatchewan, on 13 December 2017.
The Italian accident investigation board ANSV published it’s Annual Report over 2017, drawing attention to 46 drone incidents over the past year in Italy.
21 April 2018The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued Emergency Airworthiness Directives, requiring inspection of CFM56-7B engines, in the wake of the accident involving Southwest flight 1380.
An MD-83 suffered a main landing gear collapse on landing at Alexandria Airport, Louisiana, USA.
20 April 2018An NTSC final report concluded that misunderstanding of conditional clearance caused the August 2017 runway collision between an ATR 72-500 and a Boeing 737-900 at Medan, Indonesia.
19 April 2018A final report by Nepalese authorities showed that a Let L-410 stalled and crashed in May 2017, after descending below runway level while on finals to Lukla’s mountain airport in Nepal
19 April 2018The FAA issued a statement, saying it is planning an AD to be published in the wake of the Southwest Boeing 737 uncontained engine failure accident on April 17.
18 April 2018A TSIB report detailed how a Boeing 787 clipped a wing of an Airbus A380 at Singapore-Changi Airport when the 787 followed the greens while the controller intended another taxi route
18 April 2018AIB Nigeria released a report on the October 2013 fatal EMB-120 accident at Lagos; the aircraft lost engine power and stalled on takeoff.