The Federal Aviation Administration has instructed airlines to inspect Boeing 787 ailerons and elevator power control units due to risk that lightning strikes could make the aircraft hard to control. A new airworthiness directive, which takes effect on the 3rd of June, follows “reports of hydraulic leakage caused by damage to aileron and elevator actuators from lighting strikes”. The problems comes in when hydraulic fluid leaks from the power control units at the same time the aircraft loses two hydraulic systems, says the FAA. Such a scenario “could result in an inability to maintain aileron or elevator actuator stiffness and lead to airplane control surface oscillations, which could damage the control surfaces and cause reduced controllability of the airplane”.

13 people, including a family of five lost their lives when a Bombardier Challenger 601 crashed in a remote mountain region in northern Mexico. The wreckage of the small private jet that departed from Las Vegas on Sunday was found via aerial surveillance in the northern municipality of Ocampo, the government of Coahuila state said in a statement on Monday. "There were no survivors seen," the statement said. Mexico's civil aviation authority said the aircraft departed from Las Vegas shortly before 3pm local time (22:00 GMT). Nearly two hours later, Monterrey lost track of the jet and was unable to make contact with pilots, it said in a statement. Mexican broadcaster Televisa said that the pilot had intended to descend to avoid a storm. Francisco Martinez, an emergency services official in Coahuila, told Milenio that recent weather conditions would form part of the investigation into the crash.

Moscow Sheremetyevo airport is in the process of restoring normal traffic capacity after the removal of wreckage from the Aeroflot aircraft which was involved in a landing accident on the 5th of May 2019. The airport had issued a Notice To Airmen(NOTAM) on the 6th of May stating that capacity had been reduced to 42 hourly movements, and that the restriction would remain in effect until early the following day. “Over the coming days the airport will re-establish its regular schedule of flights,” it said. Sheremetyevo is nearing completion its third runway, which is due to be completed in July.