Jamie Freed

@Jamie_Freed

Global news desk editor @Reuters. Former long-time aviation correspondent. Californian-Australian frequent traveller.

Sydney, New South Wales

Joined December 2011

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 24

FAA to review Boeing supply chain before approving hike to 737 MAX production reuters.com/legal/litigati…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Boeing has not yet asked the agency to remove a 38-plane per month cap on 737 MAX production and will review the planemaker's supply chain before...

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 24

FAA sees no mechanical issue with 787 Boeing fuel control unit after Air India crash reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday the fatal crash last month of an Air India Boeing 787 jet does not appear to have been caused by a mechanical issue or inadvertent...

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 24

Air India warned over 'systemic' lapses in fatigue management and training, documents show reuters.com/world/india/ai…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. Air India has been warned by India's aviation regulator that it could face enforcement action for breaching safety standards related to crew fatigue management and training, government notices to the...

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 24

Russian plane with nearly 50 aboard goes missing in country's east reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. Air traffic controllers lost contact on Thursday with an An-24 passenger plane carrying about 50 people in Russia's far east, and a search was under way, the regional governor said.

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 21

Air India jet skids during landing in Mumbai, damaging aircraft and runway reuters.com/world/india/ai…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. An Air India Airbus A320 flight veered off the runway as it landed during heavy rain at the Mumbai International Airport on Monday, briefly shutting the runway and damaging the underside of one of...

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 21

Evidence shows Jeju Air pilots shut off less-damaged engine before crash, source says reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. The evidence included the cockpit voice recorder, computer data and a physical engine switch.

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 18

How Air India flight 171 crash unfolded on the ground reuters.com/graphics/INDIA…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. A visual journey through the crash site spread across 37,000 square metres

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 18

Air India cockpit recording suggests captain cut fuel to engines before crash, Reuters source says, in line with WSJ report reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. The U.S. assessment is not contained in a formal document, said a source, who emphasized the cause of the deadly crash remains under investigation.

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 16

Syria's aviation comeback struggles amid regional turmoil reuters.com/world/china/sy…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. Poor infrastructure, regional conflict and sporadic Israeli airstrikes are holding back more airlines from returning to Syria, industry officials told Reuters, hampering efforts to rebuild a shatte...

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 16

Air India crash rekindles debate over cockpit video recorders reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. The deadly Air India crash last month has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras monitoring airline pilot actions to complement the cockpit voice and...

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 15

Air India to restore some international flights following reduction over crash reuters.com/world/india/ai…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. Air India said on Tuesday it would partially restore its international flight schedule that was scaled back following the crash involving its flight last month that killed 260 people.

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 14

India orders its airlines to check fuel switches on Boeing jets reuters.com/world/india/in…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. South Korea says it will order a similar measure, as scrutiny intensified of fuel switch locks.

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 14

Final moments of Air India flight 171: 32 seconds to disaster reuters.com/graphics/INDIA…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. What happened on Air India flight 171 in the final seconds before its crash in western India

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 14

Fatal Air India crash probe 'far from over' says CEO days after preliminary report reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. Airline CEO Campbell Wilson said in an internal memo that it is unwise to jump to any premature conclusions.

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 14

South Korea preparing to order airlines to check fuel switches on Boeing jets reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. South Korea is preparing to order all airlines in the country that operate Boeing jets to examine the fuel switches at the centre of an investigation into a deadly Air India crash that killed 260...

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 13

Amid Air India probe, US FAA, Boeing notify fuel switch locks are safe, document, sources say reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have privately issued notifications that the fuel switch locks on Boeing planes are safe.

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 12

Boeing settles with Canadian man whose family died in 737 MAX crash reuters.com/business/autos…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. Paul Njoroge’s wife Carolyne and three young children died in the crash.

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 12

Who were the two pilots who flew the Air India jet that crashed? reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month supports the view that the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane's engines, said a source...

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 12

Explainer: What are the fuel switches at the centre of the Air India crash probe? reuters.com/business/aeros…

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Jamie Freed@Jamie_Freed · Jul 12

Inside the cockpit: How Air India's Boeing Dreamliner flight ended in disaster reuters.com/business/aeros…

Jamie_Freed's tweet card. This is the sequence of events - by the seconds.

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