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FILE PHOTO: American Airlines flight 718, the first U.S. Boeing 737 MAX commercial flight since regulators lifted a 20-month grounding in November, lands at LaGuardia airport in New York, U.S. December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
(Reuters) - American Airlines Co said on Friday that a Boeing 737 MAX bound for New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport declared an emergency after the captain shut down one engine over a possible mechanical issue.
American’s Flight 2555 from Miami with 95 passengers and six crew landed safely at Newark without incident, the airline said.
The possible issue was related to an engine oil pressure or volume indicator and not the result of anything related to the MCAS system linked to two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019 that prompted the plane’s 20-month grounding, it said.
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PARIS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - France’s Safran predicted a gradual recovery from the aviation industry’s worst crisis, after seeing demand for its jet engines and services drop sharply last year.
The world’s third largest aerospace contractor said its 2020 recurring operating income fell 56% to 1.686 billion euros ($2.1 billion) as revenues fell 33% to 16.498 billion.
Operating margin dropped 530 basis points to 10.2%.
For 2021, Safran expected this key profitability gauge to recover by more than 100 basis points, with the recovery to be felt mainly in the latter part of the year.
It predicted 2021 revenues would decrease in the low single digits in percentage terms, and on a like-for-like basis.
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1 Min Read Electrical power pylons of high-tension electricity power lines are seen next to the EDF power plant in Bouchain, near Valenciennes, France, July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossigno/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) - EDF has struck deals to buy stakes in Econet Energy Kenya and Bboxx Kenya, it said on Thursday, as the French state-controlled power firm looks to boost its presence in Africa and in renewable energy.
EDF said it had bought a 50% stake in solar energy firm Econet Energy Kenya and a 23% stake in off-grid energy company Bboxx Kenya. The financial terms were not disclosed.
Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by Jason Neely
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Damage to a fan blade on an engine that failed on a United Airlines Boeing 777 flight is consistent with metal fatigue, based on a preliminary assessment, the chairman of the U.S. air accident investigator said on Monday.
The Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine failed on Saturday with a “loud bang” four minutes after takeoff from Denver, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Robert Sumwalt told reporters following an initial analysis of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.
There was minor damage to the aircraft body but no structural damage, he said.
He said it remained unclear whether the incident is consistent with an engine failure on a different Hawaii-bound United flight in February 2018 that was attributed to a fatigue fracture in a fan blade.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Steve Dickson said Tuesday the agency is acting quickly to finalize a new emergency airworthiness directive that will require stepped-up inspections of all Boeing 777-200 airplanes with Pratt & Whitney PW400 engines after an engine.