South African investigators found an engine generator control unit to be unlatched after a Boeing 737-400 suffered a series of system failures on departure from Johannesburg last month. South African ...

Freight operator West Atlantic is overhauling its approach to deferred defects after a serious incident in which a Boeing 737-400 suffered substantial electrical failure and the loss or degradation of ...

Boeing says 787 operators addressed the anomaly the manufacturer discovered in generator control units (GCUs) soon after they were notified of the issue via an alert service bulletin (SB) several ...

The risk comes despite action taken to fix the issue after a Qantas incident in 2008. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has told the US Federal Aviation Administration that improved regulatory ...

The U.S. Navy is taking another step in improving the readiness of F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft by reversing a more than 10-year-long shortfall of generator control units (GCU). Improving the readiness ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A range of safety measures is being introduced as a result of an electrical systems failure on board a Qantas 747 aircraft nearly three ...

WASHINGTON -- In a new problem for the Boeing 787, the Federal Aviation Administration has ordered repairs to correct a software bug that could cause the aircraft to suddenly lose all power. The ...

The US air safety authority has issued a warning and maintenance order over a software bug that causes a complete electric shutdown of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and potentially "loss of control" of the ...

A software bug in Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner jet could cause the plane’s electrical system to fail, prompting a potential “loss of control” of the aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

[Avionics Today 05-05-2015] Boeing will provide a software update later this year to address an issue that causes the 787 Dreamliner’s Generator Control Units (GCUs) to simultaneously go into failsafe ...