BEIJING — Attempting to acquire 60 highly capable fighters within a limited budget, South Korea is calling for a further and final round of bids for the F-X Phase 3. The program will be reconsidered if all three bidders again exceed the 8.3 trillion won ($7.2 billion) budget, as they did in their initial offers, local media report.

A second program delay has dashed the small remaining hope of the Comac C919 entering service on schedule in 2016. The first flight of the 158-seat aircraft, delayed earlier this year by about nine months from the original target of June 2014, will not take place until the end of 2015, says the director of an expert committee that is advising the cabinet on the program. That leaves only one year for flight-testing to meet the already doubtful end-2016 target for first delivery.

A Boeing 737-800 operated by Lion Air struck cattle in a night landing at Gorontalo, Indonesia, on Aug. 6. Two of the 110 passengers aboard suffered minor injuries in the evacuation. Three cows were on the runway when the aircraft, registered PK-LKH, landed at 9:13 p.m., a Lion Air source says, unable to explain why the cows were there. When the landing gear hit one of the animals, the brakes were damaged. “One of the cows also became tangled in one of the rear [main] landing [gear], affecting the steering,” the airline says.