Avianca A320 flight AV39 near Miami, turbulence cracks cabin window

Aug 1st 2016

An Avianca Airbus A320-200, registration N745AV performing flight AV-39 from Miami,FL (USA) to Cali (Colombia) with about 120 people on board, was climbing out of Miami when the aircraft encountered turbulence twice causing a cabin window to crack. The crew stopped the climb at FL310 about 110nm south of Miami about 20 minutes into the flight at about 22:00Z, descended the aircraft to 10,000 feet to burn off fuel and landed safely back on Miami's runway 09 about 75 minutes after departure.

Passengers reported the aircraft appeared to drop/fall substantially for several seconds about 20 minutes into the flight then stabilized again, about 5 minutes the aircraft again appeared to drop and stabilized again. The captain subsequently announced they had encountered turbulence and they were returning to Miami due to a cracked cabin window.

The Aviation Herald

Avianca Brasil has agreed for 62 Airbus A320neo

Synergy Aerospace Corporation, the largest shareholder of Colombia-based Avianca (AV, Bogotá) and the owner of Avianca Brasil (O6, Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont), has finalized a Purchase Agreement with Airbus Industrie (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) for sixty-two A320neo Family aircraft. 

The order, which was first announced as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Paris Airshow 2015, was firmed during a ceremony held at the 2016 Farnborough International Airshow.

Synergy plans to use the aircraft to renew its Brazilian asset's fleet which currently consists of fifteen A318-100s, four A319-100s, twenty-six A320-200s, and one A330-200(F).

“These A320neo will allow Avianca Brasil to take an important leap toward growing and modernizing its fleet in a profitable and sustainable manner, while improving passenger experience,” Alex Bialer, Chairman of the Board, Synergy Group, said.

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Airline Routes 5/7 by ATWOnline

Air Canada rouge began 3X-weekly Toronto YYZ-Budapest Airport service.

Norwegian begins 2X-weekly Edinburgh-Barcelona service.

Etihad Airways and Avianca Brazil signed a codeshare agreement.

AirBridgeCargo Airlines began 2X-weekly Moscow SVO-Chongqing service.

Nile Air begins 3X-weekly Cairo-Istanbul SAW service July 7 and 4X-weekly -Al-Ain service begins June 29. Both routes are flown with Airbus A320s.

Etihad Cargo has started a 2X-weekly Abu Dhabi-Brussels BRU service.

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Avianca Brazil A319 at Ilheus on Jun 16th 2016, bird strike

An Avianca Brazil Airbus A319-100, registration PR-AVD performing flight O6-6326 from Brasilia,DF to Ilheus,BA (Brazil), was on approach to Ilheus' runway 11 when a vulture impacted the nose of the aircraft "slightly" rearranging the nose cone. The crew continued for a safe landing on runway 11.

The aircraft was unable to depart for the onward flights, the rest of the rotation was cancelled.

PR-AVD with bent nose:



Incident: Avianca Brazil A319 at Ilheus on Jun 16th 2016, bird strike

Avianca A332 near Salta on Jun 4th 2016, turbulence injures 23

An Avianca Airbus A330-200, registration N279AV performing flight AV-965 from Lima (Peru) to Buenos Aires Ezeiza,BA (Argentina), was enroute at FL410 about 90nm south of Salta,SA (Argentina) when the aircraft encountered severe turbulence causing altitude deviations of -100/+150 feet. 23 occupants received injuries as result of the upset. The aircraft continued to Buenos Aires for a safe landing about 80 minutes later.

Ezeiza Airport confirmed 23 injuries on board of flight AV-965. 

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for 6 hours, then departed Buenos Aires for the return flight.







Accident: Avianca A332 near Salta on Jun 4th 2016, turbulence injures 23

Avianca Re-Schedules Boeing 787 Los Angeles Introduction to Jan 2016 | Airline Route

                                   

Star Alliance member Avianca is delaying planned Dreamliner introduction on Bogota – Los Angelesroute, which sees the first 787 operating flight scheduled on 01JAN16. Previously Avianca planned to operate this 4 weekly flights from 18DEC15.

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Avianca Re-Schedules Boeing 787 Los Angeles Introduction to Jan 2016 | Airline Route