Ali Abedzadeh, who is also the head of the Iran Civil Aviation Organization (CAO), added, “Specialized Iranian experts have achieved good success in repairing engines and have been able to overhaul the hot and complicated section of the engines through applying appropriate technologies,” Fars News Agency wrote.

He noted that Boeing and Airbus refrain from repairing the damaged parts of the planes that are in Iran, making the country move toward developing the needed technologies domestically.

“We have developed the capability to design these parts and can manufacture them. Of course, they have an identity and are based on standards,” Abedzadeh said.

The official added the US had piled “huge pressure” on plane manufacturers to avoid providing Iran with the technical and operational information needed for repairing and overhauling its aircraft.

The comments come as Iran has managed to get around a series of American sanctions that sought to ground its aviation sector through the imposition of harsh penalties on countries and organizations that provide services to the Iranian airlines.

Those pressures even intensified during the spread of the new coronavirus pandemic in Iran when some European governments refrained for a while from allowing flights by Iranian airlines, meant to evacuate nationals from Europe, to land.

Earlier, Abedzadeh said Iran would soon lift its own pandemic-related ban on international flights, adding foreign carriers would start their flights to Iran in the very near future.

An Iranian aviation official announced in 2016 that Airbus and Boeing had granted permission to Iran for conducting the maintenance and repair operations and producing spare parts.

Maqsoud As’adi Samani, a member of the Iranian Aviation Companies Association, added, “Airbus and Boeing have given the Iranian aviation industry the right to carry out plane maintenance and repair operations as well as manufacture spare parts.”

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The company will give one week of pay and will cover the employee share of medical premiums during the furlough period, it said in a statement on Friday, Reuters reported.

Triumph Group also said it will cut about 200 full-time positions due to fall in demand, adding that the reductions will be completed by May 1.

This week, Boeing suspended production of its 787 airplane at its facilities in South Carolina and indefinitely extended a halt in its production operations at its Washington state facilities.

Triumph Group, a Boeing supplier, cited the closures as the reasons for its steps to furlough employees.

Boeing, the largest US planemaker, itself asked last month for at least $60 billion in US government loan guarantees for itself and other American aerospace manufacturers to help the embattled industry withstand a coronavirus-related cash drain.

The outbreak has further compounded an already existing crisis over the year-old grounding of Boeing’s previously fast-selling 737 MAX jet after two fatal crashes.

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New Boeing CEO David Calhoun reported a loss of $636 million on $76.6 billion in revenue for all of 2019, its first annual loss in more than two decades as it grappled with the fallout from the grounding of its bestselling jet.

Boeing also indicated it would cut production of its bigger 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

Boeing added another $9.2 billion to charges for concessions to airlines that have canceled thousands of Max flights and higher costs related to compensation, doubling its estimate of the total financial hit from the crisis to $18.6 billion.

The Boeing 737 Max crisis started last March after two crashes within five months killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

The crisis torpedoed sales and deliveries of new jetliners, leaving Boeing far behind rival Airbus. It caused a shutdown in Max production, layoffs at suppliers, and led to the firing of CEO Dennis Muilenburg.

US airlines that own Maxes – Southwest, American, and United – don’t expect it back until after the peak of the summer travel season.

Boeing has been embarrassed in recent weeks by the disclosure of years-old internal messages in which test pilots and other key employees raised safety concerns about the Max, even saying they wouldn’t put their families on it, while the plane was in development and testing.

Calhoun called the messages “horrible” and criticized company leaders who didn’t disclose the messages right away. He said board members were kept in the dark.

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According To Iran News, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said a 10-member Canadian delegation is heading to Iran to deal with issues related to Canadian victims of the Ukrainian airliner’s crash in northern Iran.

In remarks on Friday, Mousavi pointed to the latest developments surrounding the incident, and said, “Based on the coordination between the Iranian Foreign Ministry and Canada, a 10-member Canadian delegation is heading to Iran to deal with the affairs of the Canadian victims of the tragic incident.”

“The Islamic Republic of Iran will not hesitate to facilitate the affairs of countries whose nationals have been affected by the tragedy,” he said.

The results of technical examinations and investigations by international experts, including representatives of Boeing, Ukraine and other affected countries will be released to the public after their completion, the spokesman added.

The remarks came as some US, Canadian, and British officials said Thursday the cause of the jet’s crash was a missile fired from Iran in the hours after the country had launched other missiles at bases housing US troops.

The victims of Wednesday’s crash included 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans, and three British nationals.

All 179 people on board the Boeing 737, including nine crew, were killed when the jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport on Wednesday morning.

The plane operated by Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) was bound for Kiev.

The Ukrainian embassy in Iran also ruled out the possibility of an attack on the plane.

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Boeing announced Thursday up to 50 of its popular 737NG planes had been grounded after cracks in them were detected, in another blow to the US aircraft maker following two deadly crashes. Iran News quotes AFP report.

Australian national carrier Qantas became the latest airline to take one of the planes out of the air, as it said it would urgently inspect 32 others but insisted passengers had nothing to fear.

The announcement by Qantas came after authorities in Seoul said nine of the planes were grounded in South Korea in early October, including five operated by Korean Air.

Boeing had previously reported a problem with the model’s “pickle fork” — a part which helps bind the wing to the fuselage.

This prompted US regulators to early this month order immediate inspections of aircraft that had seen heavy use.

Following the Qantas announcement, a Boeing spokesperson on Thursday told AFP in Sydney that less than five percent of 1,000 planes had cracks detected and were grounded for repair.

The spokesperson did not give an exact figure, though five percent equates to 50 planes of 1,000 inspected.

Boeing and Qantas stressed travelers should not be concerned.

“We would never operate an aircraft unless it was completely safe to do so,” Qantas head of engineering Chris Snook said.

But the discovery has heightened fears that the scale of the 737NGs’ problem may have been underestimated.

The US Federal Aviation Administration had initially ordered immediate checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.

But Qantas said it had found the fault in a more lightly used aircraft than those singled out for early checks; one that had recorded fewer than 27,000 flights.

“This aircraft has been removed from service for repair,” Qantas said in a statement, adding it had hastened its inspections of 32 other 737NG planes to be completed by Friday.

The airline said it generally used the aircraft on domestic routes, flying primarily between major cities as well as shorter-haul trips to New Zealand.

But there were calls for Qantas to ground its entire 737 fleet until checks were complete.

“These aircraft should be kept safe on the ground until urgent inspections are completed”, an engineers’ union representative, Steve Purvinas, said in a statement.

Qantas described the call to ground its 737 fleet as “completely irresponsible”.

“Even when a crack is present, it does not immediately compromise the safety of the aircraft,” said Snook.

Stephen Fankhauser, an aviation expert at Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology, said that the parts were designed so the “structure can tolerate some level of damage or degradation”.

“The inspection period is set to ensure the cracks do not continue to grow to a dangerous length and then significantly compromise the strength of the airframe,” he said.

A Boeing spokesperson said the company “regrets the impact” the issue was having on its customers and was “working around the clock” to fix the problem.

“Boeing is actively working with customers that have airplanes in their fleets with inspection findings to develop a repair plan, and to provide parts and technical support as necessary,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

The NG is a precursor plane to the Boeing 737 MAX, which has been grounded since mid-March following the two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Boeing is still trying to restore its safety reputation after two 737 MAX crashes last year that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes’ flight handling software.

Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg faced another round of tough questions on Wednesday from US lawmakers who accused the company of a “lack of candor” over the crashes.

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 A Boeing passenger plane from Dubai, UAE, to Oslo, Norway, made emergency landing in Shiraz international Airport after experiencing technical problems on Friday.

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“Such an act (by Boeing) will not undermine our resolve and they cannot harm us in this way,” Taqi Kabiri said on Friday, Tasnim reported.

A Boeing spokesman said on Wednesday that “we have not delivered any aircraft to Iran, and given we no longer have a license to sell to Iran at this time, we will not be delivering any aircraft.”

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As he said, Iran awaits the two companies’ decisions about their agreements with the country.

According to Reuters, Iran has asked Europe’s Airbus to announce whether it would go ahead with its plane deal with Tehran.

“We are in contact with Airbus and they are exploring all possibilities that might exist to take advantage of the limited time in front of us,” Reuters quoted Fakhrieh Kashan as saying.

“It all depends on European government support and policies,” he told Reuters by telephone.

Iran also hopes to import more Franco-Italian ATR turboprops but there are some “technical issues”, he added.

Managing Director of Iran’s flag-carrier Iran Air Farzaneh Sharafbafi announced on Wednesday that the company will announce its final decision about the purchase of aircrafts from Airbus and Boeing within two weeks, Tasnim news agency reported.

Iran Air was to receive 200 new planes, of which 100 were to be purchased from Airbus and 80 from Boeing.
The first, second and third planes that Iran purchased from the European aviation giant Airbus landed in Tehran on January 12, March 11, and March 25, 2017, respectively.

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