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Radar Failure Triggers Newark Airport Controller Crisis

Travellers flying through Newark Liberty International Airport in May 2025 faced hundreds of flight cancellations and long delays after a radar failure and a serious shortage of air traffic controllers brought the airport close to gridlock. Newark handles around 400 flights a day and is the main hub of United Airlines, and the disruptions caused chaos for tens of thousands of passengers during one of the busiest travel periods of the year.

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Boeing Repatriates 737 MAX Jets from China Over Tariffs

In the space of a few days in April 2025, one of the most visible consequences of the escalating trade war between the United States and China manifested itself at an aircraft completion centre in Zhoushan, Shanghai: Boeing 737 MAX jets finished and prepared for Chinese airline customers were ferried back across the Pacific, unwanted by the carriers for which they had been built. The Chinese government had directed its airlines not to accept further Boeing deliveries following the imposition of 125-percent retaliatory tariffs on American goods, making the economics of taking new aircraft wholly indefensible. For Boeing, already navigating a precarious financial recovery from years of programme setbacks and regulatory scrutiny, the sudden loss of one of its most strategically important customer bases represented a significant blow with consequences that extended well beyond the immediate delivery cycle.

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German Airport Strikes Cancel 3,500 Flights in One Day

On 10 March 2025, the Ver.di trade union orchestrated a 24-hour warning strike at 13 German airports, bringing the country’s aviation network almost entirely to a standstill and disrupting the travel plans of more than half a million passengers. The action — the largest coordinated airport strike in Germany in recent years — was designed to demonstrate the union’s resolve ahead of ongoing wage negotiations covering airport security workers and a broader group of 2.5 million public-sector employees, and it succeeded in causing precisely the scale of disruption that Ver.di intended.

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All 80 Survive After Delta Flight Overturns at Toronto

On 17 February 2025, a Delta Connection regional jet crash-landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport, flipped upside down, lost its tail and right wing, and caught fire — yet all 80 people on board walked away alive. The accident, involving a Bombardier CRJ900 operated by Endeavor Air on a flight from Minneapolis, is being studied around the world as a remarkable example of aircraft design and crew action saving every life in what could easily have been a fatal crash.

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67 Killed in Potomac River Mid-Air Collision

At 8:47 p.m. on 29 January 2025, American Airlines Flight 5342 — a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet operated by PSA Airlines — collided with a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at an altitude of approximately 300 feet over the Potomac River, less than half a mile from the threshold of Runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed: 64 passengers and crew on the regional jet, and the three-member Army crew. It was the deadliest aviation accident on American soil since 2001, and the first fatal crash of a US commercial passenger flight since 2009.

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Jeju Air 737 Crashes at Muan, Killing 179

On 29 December 2024, a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash-landed at Muan International Airport in South Korea with its landing gear retracted, overran the runway, and struck a concrete barrier at the far end of the runway. Of the 181 people on board, 179 were killed. Only two flight attendants, seated at the rear of the aircraft, survived. It was South Korea’s deadliest aviation accident in 27 years and one of the worst in the world in over a decade.

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