To legally fly over vast stretches of ocean between California and Hawaii, Continental Airlines had to ensure its 737-700s met strict ETOPS certification, typically ETOPS-180 or higher, meaning ...

The vast Pacific Ocean has always proved difficult for flying but airlines have ... The first twin-engine aircraft to perform an ETOPS flight was a Trans World Airlines Boeing 767 that flew ...

DAVID LEARMOUNT / LONDON. Pacific incident was longest ever single-engine diversion. A United Airlines Boeing 777-200ER was forced to fly a 190min diversion on one engine over the Pacific Ocean ...

True innovations with two-engine aircraft only came about once aviation regulators introduced ETOPS in the 1980s and manufacturers started to build larger twin-engine jets like the Boeing 777 ...

Farther south in the Pacific and near the South Pole, there are even fewer alternatives, which is why Airbus was recently reported by the Wall Street Journal to be seeking an ETOPS of 420 minutes ...

ETOPS: Why two-engine planes can now fly across oceans. ... Boeing’s 777) were not allowed to fly the 2,500 miles between the U.S. mainland and Hawaii – or on other long, over-ocean routes.

Early combustion engine planes were notoriously unreliable, leading regulators at the FAA to say it would "be a cold day in hell" before they would let a small plane with only two engines fly over ...

We read with interest the plight of alternate airfields for emergency use by aircraft flying ETOPS routes (Flight International, 3-9 June). It was, however, perhaps remiss of the author, given the ...

American Airlines Flight 31 departed Los Angeles International Airport on Aug. 31, and landed at Honolulu International Airport, but the A321 airplane had not been ETOPS, or extended range ...