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A prominent DC lawyer who died earlier this month after traveling on a corporate jet did not pass away from severe turbulence as originally reported. Earlier this month, Dana Hyde, a prominent DC lawyer who served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations was killed while flying over New England in a business jet. The business jet carrying five passengers made an emergency landing at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut. ... Hyde, 55, was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut on Friday where she was pronounced dead. Hyde also served as a lawyer on the 9/11 commission. The...

It wasn't immediately clear how many people were aboard the Bombardier CL 600. The Federal Aviation Administration said the aircraft crashed at 1:18 p.m. on Monday while the pilot was attempting to land at nearby Truckee-Tahoe Airport. The owner of the aircraft and the flight plan were not immediately made public, although authorities later said it might have come from either Coeur d’Alene, Idaho or Florida. The CL 600 is a multi-seat business jet with twin engines mounted on the rear fuselage and a distinctive T-shaped tail. The jet can hold as many as 14 passengers and two crew.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- There are alarming new details from the MTA about doors opening on some moving subway cars, prompting the MTA to order that each train car to be inspected. The MTA says it was forced to pull its entire fleet of R179 subway cars, the newest model, the over ongoing door problems. Both of the incidents happened on the southbound C train less than two weeks apart. The first was December 24 on a C train heading south of High Street, and the train's doors opened about four inches while the train was moving. Bombardier, which made...

The mysterious flight between the two nations had many asking "Whodunnit?" A privately owned, unidentified Challenger 604 jet departed from Ben-Gurion International Airport, landing first in the Jordanian capital of Amman and then in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on Tuesday evening, causing many to question which Israeli decided to pay the Saudis a visit. The plane in question departed from Israel and flew to an airport in Amman, where it remained on the ground for about two minutes before taking off again and landing in the Saudi capital. After a little less than an hour, the plane, privately...

The World Trade Organization ruled in favor of the United States Wednesday in a long-running dispute with the European Union over subsidies to Airbus, paving the way for the U.S. to hit the EU with $7.5 billion in retaliatory tariffs........ The U.S. and EU have been fighting since 2004 over whether their respective aerospace industry policies toward Airbus and Boeing amount to unfair practices. The WTO's ruling said the EU subsidized Airbus by giving it preferential treatment on interest rates. "The Appellate Body upheld the Panel’s findings that Airbus paid a lower interest rate ... than would have been available...

Bombardier Inc. is forecasting its planned C Series assembly facility in Alabama will create as many as 2,000 jobs in the U.S. The plant, planned for Mobile, Ala., as part of its proposed partnership with Airbus on the program, would create 400 to 500 direct jobs, 550 to 700 indirect jobs at supplier and support companies and an additional 1,000 to 1,250 new jobs created in the communities where those other new direct and indirect employees spend their money. According to a report, Bombardier’s jobs forecast was part of a regulatory filing that also revealed the new assembly line would...

The Commerce Department slapped duties of nearly 220 percent on Canada’s Bombardier C Series aircraft Tuesday in a victory for Boeing that is likely to raise tensions between the United States and its allies Canada and Britain. Commerce ruled that Montreal-based Bombardier used unfair government subsidies to sell jets at artificially low prices in the U.S. “The U.S. values its relationships with Canada, but even our closest allies must play by the rules,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said. Canada responded by saying it “strongly disagrees” with the U.S. move. “This is clearly aimed at eliminating Bombardier’s C Series aircraft from...

A current dispute between the Canadian government and the Montreal-based aircraft maker Bombardier on the one side, and Boeing on the other, appears to be proving one thing: Protectionism begets protectionism. The quarrel heated up a few weeks ago, when Boeing launched an anti-dumping petition against Bombardier, asking the U.S. Department of Commerce to find that the latter was guilty of dumping its C Series plane on the U.S. market at below market costs with the help of the Canadian and Quebec governments. Demonstrating an all-too-predictable tit-for-tat approach, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland responded immediately to the move, ordering a...

Canada suggested on Thursday it could scrap plans to buy Boeing fighter jets if the United States backed Boeing’s claims that Canadian plane maker Bombardier dumped jetliners in the U.S. market. “Canada is reviewing current military procurement that relates to Boeing,” Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said in a statement released late on Thursday. Canada “strongly disagrees” with the U.S. Commerce Department decision to investigate Boeing’s claims that Bombardier sold planes below cost in the United States and benefited unfairly from Canadian government subsidies, the statement added. The remarks came after the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation into Boeing’s...

OTTAWA — There are few problems so bad that the intrusion of government can’t make it worse. But the pickle the Liberals have inherited on the CF-18 fighter jet replacement program and Bombardier’s bailout might both benefit from some creative thinking from Ottawa. Is it possible that the government could maximize its stone-to-bird ratio and use one dilemma to help solve the other? I was engaged in idle speculation with a defence analyst last week about the CF-18 replacements. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has said that a new statement of requirement for the jets will be released — one that...

Reuters reported in October that Bombardier had offered the CSeries to Southwest, a long shot since the airline maintains an all-Boeing fleet. The CSeries is due to enter service in 2016 after delays and amid cash problems at Bombardier. The plane maker did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman said this week the plane is "a top contender in several key campaigns." Delta Air Lines Inc on Tuesday said it was considering Bombardier's new aircraft. Another competitor for the United order, Brazil's Embraer SA, declined to comment on the Boeing deal. United is expected to buy more...

A popular alternative to hybrid buses and subways gets a boost Bombardier is well-known worldwide as a manufacturer of aircraft, snowmobiles, and personal watercraft. The company has annual sales of almost $20 billion USD, and is well diversified into multiple transportation markets. One of these markets is light rail vehicles, commonly known as streetcars.Many European cities have highly developed light rail/streetcar lines that both complement and supplement subway lines. New subway lines are extremely expensive and can cost over $1 billion per kilometer to build. They also require high urban densities and heavy passenger volumes to be effective.Light rail lines...

Bombardier Inc. said Thursday it will lay off another 3,000 employees or 10% of its aerospace workforce by the end of the year to combat falling demand for its business jets. The reductions are in addition to the 1,360 layoffs Bombardier announced on Feb. 5 amid a slowdown in production of its Learjet and Challenger aircraft. Altogether, this will mean 1,740 job losses in Montreal and 475 in Toronto, in addition to cuts at its facilities in the U.S., Mexico, and Belfast. While the cuts are largely unionized workers, they also include some management and contractual workers. The Montreal-based plane...

FARNBOROUGH, England (AFP) - With record oil prices crippling airlines worldwide, Canadian planemaker Bombardier said here Sunday it planned to launch its eco-friendly CSeries single-aisle passenger jet in 2013. German carrier Lufthansa has signed a letter saying it was interested in buying 30 CSeries jets and possibly up to 60, Bombardier said in a statement. Launch customer Lufthansa could be followed by other airlines after Bombardier said it had received "significant interest" worldwide regarding the new plane. "The CSeries family offers the greenest single-aisle aircraft in its class," said Gary Scott, president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. "These game-changing aircraft emit...

Pratt & Whitney confirms its GTF geared turbofan has been selected to power Bombardier’s CSeries small airliner. A decision on launching the 110/130-seat CSeries is planned for 2008, for entry into service in 2013. Bombardier revealed at the Dubai show that it is working exclusively with P&W to power the CSeries. “We have reached agreement on the technical and business terms,” confirms Tom Pelland, P&W’s director, next generation products. The GTF has already been selected to power the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, with a launch decision expected at the end of March 2008. The 70/90-seat MRJ is also scheduled to enter...

German investigators are to examine an Augsburg Airways Bombardier Q400 which landed at Munich today with its nose-gear retracted, after turning back from a service to Florence. The aircraft was operating a Lufthansa Regional connection on the Munich-Florence route on behalf of the German Star Alliance carrier. Local reports state that the crew discovered that the nose-wheel could not be deployed as the turboprop started its approach to the Italian city. It returned to Munich in order to make use of the longer runway. Munich’s parallel runways are 4,000m compared with the relatively short 1,688m strip at Florence. None of...

ERLANGER, Ky. (AP) -- The fatal crash of a Comair regional jet Sunday morning dealt an emotional blow to a commuter airline trying to emerge from bankruptcy. "These are tough things and it's very difficult," Comair president Don Bornhorst said at a briefing in a hotel near Comair headquarters in northern Kentucky. Choking up at times, Bornhorst said he was "emotionally devastated" and said he's certain all of Comair's 6,400 employees share those feelings. Bornhorst, a 15-year aviation industry veteran, pledged that the carrier would do all it could to help with the investigation of the crash while also keeping...

Pinnacle Probe Finding the cause of an accident often leads to a cure--and the ongoing probe of Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 is highlighting the need for enhanced high-altitude training and safety management programs at regional airlines. Those shortcomings came to the fore during the NTSB's June 13-15 hearing that aimed to gather more information about the events leading to the Oct. 14, 2004, crash of a Bombardier CL600-2B19 (a.k.a. CRJ200) regional jet that resulted in the deaths of the two pilots on board. The board's findings show that on that date Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, operating as Northwest Airlink, departed...

Activist Scales Hotel with Tibetan Flag and Calls on Bombardier to Leave Tibet International Campaign for Tibet[Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:07] Activists Say Rail Contract Facilitates Cultural Genocide Tibetan protester being driven over by a mock Bombardier train. Montreal – As Bombardier executives and shareholders left their annual general meeting at the Sheraton today, a student hung a Tibetan flag off the hotel as protesters below demanded: “Bombardier: hors du Tibet / out of Tibet”. The action was intended to draw attention to a campaign against Bombardier for its involvement in a highly contentious railway being built through Tibet....

The United States has warned that it is going to proceed “promptly” with a World Trade Organization (WTO) subsidy case against the European Union (EU) unless the Europeans change their position on aid for the development of new Airbus aircraft. Testifying May 25 before a House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Peter Allgeier said that a negotiated agreement on ending so-called launch aid and other trade-distorting aircraft subsidies would be preferable to litigation. But he added that the Bush administration is “fully prepared” to move forward with the 2004 WTO case and believes it has...