This may seem like a somewhat insane venture. The plan is for the not-so-cleverly named Rekkof (yes, "Fokker" backwards) to update the designs of the last jets Fokker produced, the Fokker 70 and 100.

Fokker, a member of the UK-based GKN Aerospace, is ready to provide requisite support in the investigation of the passenger jet crash in Kazakhstan, press service of GKN Aerospace told TASS on Friday.

The Fokker 100 aircraft, operated by Bek Air, got into trouble shortly after departing from Almaty, the Central Asian country’s commercial center, on a pre-dawn flight to the capital Nur-Sultan.

The U.S. airplane (offering almost twice the range) is 35 tons heavier when fully loaded, with an mtow of 171,000 pounds versus the Fokker’s 101,000 pounds.

The Fokker 100 is a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner. As of 2017, 113 Fokker jets remain in service across the globe. The main airlines still using the aircraft are in Australia and Iran.

Powered by the Rolls-Royce Tay 620/650, the 107-seat Fokker 100 was a major derivative of the 1960s F28, which entered service with Swissair in March 1988.

American Airlines has taken delivery of the first of a new family of jets, Fokker 100s, made by Fokker Aircraft of the Netherlands. American has ordered 75 of the twin-engine jets that seat 97. Ame… ...

Iranian investigators are probing the serious uncontained failure of a Fokker 100 engine which forced the crew to abort take-off from Tehran’s Mehrabad airport.