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Dreamliner battery redesign approved by FAA

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  • March 13, 2013
The US airline regulator has approved a plan to redesign the lithium-ion batteries of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved Boeing's plan, which it said requires it to "conduct extensive testing and analysis...

Boeing 787 Dreamliner: NTSB details battery fire

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  • March 9, 2013
A detailed description of a battery fire on board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been released by a US regulator but no cause has been specified. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident in Boston on 7 January. In...

Boeing Dreamliner fire cause 'unknown', says US

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  • March 9, 2013
The US national transportation board has released an interim report into a battery fire aboard a Japan Airlines Dreamliner on 7 January. It says it still has not discovered the cause of the fire. Boeing's entire fleet of Dreamliners was grounded a...

Fire alert at Glasgow Airport arrivals hall

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  • March 9, 2013
Passengers were moved from Glasgow Airport's arrivals hall after a fire in the main terminal. Fire fighters used breathing apparatus to allow them to work in the smoke-filled section of the building. The fire was reported shortly after 19:00. Stra...

Five killed as plane crash-lands in eastern Ukraine

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  • February 14, 2013
Five people were killed when a plane carrying football fans attempted an emergency landing and caught fire in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The Antonov AN-24 plane was on an internal charter flight from the Black Sea resort of Odessa, wit...

Two killed as plane crash-lands in eastern Ukraine

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  • February 13, 2013
At least two people were killed when a passenger plane crash-landed and caught fire near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, officials have said. The Antonov AN-24, a twin-engined turboprop which had 45 people on board, was on an internal fligh...

Boeing 787 Dreamliner tests 'missed fire risk'

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  • February 8, 2013
Tests on Dreamliner batteries carried out by Boeing when they were first certificated for flight missed the high risk of fire, US regulators have said. National Transportation Safety Board head Deborah Hersman said: "This investigation has shown t...

Dreamliner crisis: Boeing seeks test flight for 787

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  • February 5, 2013
Boeing has sought the permission of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct test flights of its 787 Dreamliner passenger plane. All 50 of Boeing's 787s were grounded last month because of an ongoing investigation into battery probl...

Dreamliner: Japan's airlines say they changed batteries

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  • January 30, 2013
Japan's two top airlines said they had replaced a number of batteries in the 787 Dreamliners over the past months. All Nippon Airways said it changed batteries 10 times. Japan Airlines (JAL) said it did so in a "few cases". Earlier this month, a b...

Passenger plane crashes near Kazakh city of Almaty

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  • January 30, 2013
A passenger plane has crashed near Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty, killing at least 20 people, officials say. The CRJ-200 aircraft was travelling from the northern town of Kokshetau. Kazakhstan's Scat airlines said it believed everyone on...

Dreamliner: No fault found with Boeing 787 battery

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  • January 28, 2013
Airline safety inspectors have found no faults with the battery used on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, Japan's transport ministry has said. The battery was initially considered the likely source of problems on 787s owned by two Japanese airlines. It has...

Dreamliner: Japan and US probe battery maker

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  • January 21, 2013
US and Japanese authorities have begun a joint investigation into GS Yuasa, the Japanese battery maker for Boeing's troubled 787 Dreamliner aircraft. It comes after an All Nippon Airways (ANA) 787 had to make an emergency landing due to a battery ...

Dreamliner: US joins Japan investigation

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  • January 18, 2013
US safety officials have joined an investigation into the planemaker Boeing's 787 Dreamliner aircraft, which has been suspended from flying. They joined Boeing representatives and Japanese investigators looking into an All Nippon Airways flight wh...

Dreamliner: Most Boeing 787 planes grounded on safety fears

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  • January 17, 2013
Airlines and regulators have grounded the majority of Boeing's flagship 787 Dreamliner planes amid continuing safety concerns. Airlines in Chile and India have temporarily halted 787 flights, following a US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) di...

Boeing Dreamliner investigation ordered by Japan

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  • January 15, 2013
Japan's transport ministry has launched an investigation into what caused two fuel leaks on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet operated by Japan Airlines. It comes after US authorities started a broad review of the aircraft's manufacturing, design and as...

Fresh safety concerns for Boeing Dreamliner 787

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  • January 9, 2013
Two fresh setbacks have hit Boeing's 787 Dreamliner plane, days after an electrical fire broke out on board a Japan Airlines Dreamliner. In the latest incident, Japan's All Nippon Airways cancelled a domestic 787 flight from Yamaguchi to Tokyo on ...

Second faulty Boeing Dreamliner in Boston

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  • January 9, 2013
A fuel leak on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner has caused Japan Airlines to cancel its takeoff from Boston's Logan airport, the second incident in as many days involving the new jet. The plane, bound for Tokyo, had left the gate when about 40 gallons (151...

Boeing Dreamliner catches fire in Boston

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  • January 8, 2013
Japan Airlines said that a fire broke out in one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners, shortly after it landed in Boston, following a flight from Tokyo. The fire started after a battery in the jet's auxiliary power system overheated. The airline said tha...

New Chairman for IAFPA

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  • January 6, 2013
  It is with great pleasure that I can confirm CFO Cletus Packiam has been elected as Chairman of the International Aviation Fire Protection Association. Cletus took up his post on 1st January 2013 and his tenure will last through till 31st Decemb...

Russian plane crashes into road outside Moscow

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  • December 29, 2012
A Russian passenger plane has crashed into a main road after overshooting a runway at a Moscow airport, killing at least four people, police say. Reports said there were between eight and 12 crew on board the Red Wings Tupolev-204, flight number R...

Kazakhstan military plane crash kills 27 near Shymkent

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  • December 26, 2012
A military plane carrying senior Kazakh security officials has crashed in the south of the country, killing all those on board. Officials said 27 people were on the flight, including border service officers and their acting head, Turganbek Stambek...

Burma Air Bagan emergency landing kills two at Heho

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  • December 26, 2012
At least two people have been killed and another 11 injured after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Burma, officials say. The Air Bagan plane was carrying more than 60 passengers. Two Britons are believed to be among those hurt. I...

Hungary's Budapest airport shut after electrical fault

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  • December 7, 2012
Budapest airport in Hungary has been shut down after the control tower developed electrical problems. Flights are being diverted to Vienna, Bratislava and other major airports nearby. The airport closed at 10:50 GMT and may not reopen until about ...

Continental Concorde crash: Airline criminally cleared

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  • November 30, 2012
The airline blamed for a Concorde crash which left 113 people dead in France in 2000 has been cleared of criminal responsibility by a French appeals court. Two years ago, Continental airlines was fined after a metal strip fell off an aircraft onto...

Brazilian plane skids off runway and crashes into fence

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  • November 14, 2012
A security camera has captured the moment a small plane skidded off a runway and crashed through a boundary fence at Sao Paulo's Congohas airport on Sunday, slightly injuring three people on board. The corporate jet, a Cessna Citation CJ3 aircraft...

Plane makes emergency landing in Dublin after smoke is spotted

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  • October 20, 2012
A passenger plane has made a safe emergency landing at Dublin Airport after crew detected smoke in the cockpit. The Thomas Cook flight touched down without incident at about 09:40 BST, a spokeswoman for the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) said. The...

Emergency evacuation at airport

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  • October 19, 2012
Firefighters are attending an emergency evacuation of an aircraft at Glasgow Airport. The captain of a Jet2 aircraft preparing to depart for Alicante declared an emergency at about 07:40. It is believed smoke had been detected in the cockpit. Pass...

Glasgow Airport: Flights delayed after Jet2 evacuation

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  • October 19, 2012
Flights at Glasgow Airport have been suspended after 17 people were injured during the emergency evacuation of an Alicante-bound plane on the runway. The captain of the Jet2 737 aircraft made an emergency stop at 07:40 after smoke was detected in ...

Glasgow Airport alert after plane starts to fill with smoke

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  • October 13, 2012
About 60 passengers had to leave a plane by emergency chutes at Glasgow Airport after the cabin began to fill with smoke. The Thomas Cook flight from Dalaman in Turkey had landed as normal when the alarm was raised as passengers were disembarking ...

Firefighter hurt as engine topples over at Edinburgh Airport

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  • October 4, 2012
A firefighter has been taken to hospital after a fire engine he was driving toppled over during a training exercise at Edinburgh Airport. The man was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with a suspected broken arm following the incident at 10:15. A...

Ethiopia gets first Boeing 787 Dreamliner in Africa

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  • August 18, 2012
Ethiopia has become the second country after Japan to take delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Ethiopian Airlines has bought 10 of Boeing's flagship aircraft, which are built from lightweight material, rather than aluminium, to save fuel. The B...

Three planes in near miss at Washington airport

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  • August 2, 2012
US air safety regulators are investigating how three planes narrowly avoided a midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said bad weather and a switch of the landing runway led to a ...

Lagos air crash: 'Engine failure caused Nigeria accident'

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  • July 14, 2012
Dual engine failure caused a plane to crash in the Nigeria city of Lagos last month, killing more than 150 people, investigators have said. The crew of the Dana Air flight first experienced problems with their throttles, Nigeria's Accident Investi...

Airbus confirms its first US factory to build A320 jet

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  • July 3, 2012
European plane manufacturer Airbus has confirmed plans for a $600m (£482m) factory in Alabama, marking its first assembly plant in the US. The plan will put it into direct competition with rival Boeing, which dominates commercial plane manufacturi...

Indonesia air force plane crashes in Jakarta

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  • June 21, 2012
At least 10 people have been killed after an Indonesian air force plane crashed into a housing complex in the east of the capital, Jakarta. Seven people on board the plane died, as well as two children and an elderly woman on the ground. The Fokke...

Lagos air crash: No survivors, officials say

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  • June 4, 2012
A passenger plane with about 150 people on board has crashed into buildings in a densely populated district of Nigeria's main city of Lagos. Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority said there were no survivors on board the Dana Air plane. The cause of ...

Cargo plane hits bus in Ghana airport crash

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  • June 3, 2012
A cargo plane has crash landed in Ghana's capital Accra, hitting a bus full of passengers, officials say. Ten passengers on board the bus were reported to have been killed while all four crew members survived. Local TV showed the heavily damaged B...

Passenger plane 'crashes into building in Lagos'

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  • June 3, 2012
A passenger plane has crashed into a building in Nigeria's main city of Lagos, officials and witnesses say. The Dana Air flight was heading from Lagos to Abuja, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority head Harold Denuren told AP news agency. He was quot...

Berlin airport: Opening further delayed until 2013

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  • May 18, 2012
The opening of Berlin's long-awaited new airport has been put back from June probably until March next year, because its fire safety system is not ready. The delay is seen as a major embarrassment as the project has been beset with postponements a...

Plane crash in northern Nepal kills 21 people

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  • May 14, 2012
A plane carrying 21 people has crashed while trying to land at an airport in the north of Nepal, leaving 15 dead. Police say that six survivors are being treated at a hospital in the city of Pokhara. Many of the dead and injured are Indian nationa...

Indonesia searchers find missing Russia jet wreckage

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  • May 10, 2012
Indonesian officials say a helicopter has spotted what is thought to be wreckage of the Russian Sukhoi Superjet plane that disappeared on Wednesday. The Sukhoi Superjet 100 vanished from radar screens 50 minutes after taking off from Jakarta for a...

No Dutch charges over 2009 Turkish Airlines crash

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  • April 26, 2012
Dutch prosecutors have decided not to charge Turkish Airlines and Boeing over a 2009 crash in which nine people died. The Boeing 737-800 jet, carrying 135 passengers and crew, came down in a field near Schiphol airport in an accident blamed on a f...

Delta Airlines plane makes emergency landing after bird strike

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  • April 21, 2012
A Delta Airlines plane has made an emergency landing at New York's John F Kennedy airport after an apparent bird strike. Flight 1063, which was bound for Los Angeles with 172 passengers and seven crew onboard, contacted air traffic control shortly...

Devastation and chaos after Pakistani plane crash

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  • April 20, 2012
Asif Farooqi of the BBC's Urdu service describes scenes of devastation and chaos at the site where a Bhoja Air plane crashed with up to 127 people on board just outside Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. The plane came down over the small village of H...

Virgin plane in Gatwick Airport emergency landing

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  • April 17, 2012
Flights in and out of Gatwick Airport were suspended after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing when smoke was reported in the cabin. Virgin flight VS27 had left the West Sussex airport at 11:48 BST and was bound for Orlando in the US w...

Indian helicopter makes emergency landing on rooftop

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  • April 12, 2012
A helicopter has made an emergency landing on the roof of an apartment building in a busy residential area of the Indian city of Bangalore. Reports say the helicopter was on a routine training flight when its engine failed, forcing the aircraft do...

Man chased helicopter at Norwich airport to warn of fire

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  • April 12, 2012
A helicopter which caught fire was stopped from taking off from Norwich airport by a member of ground staff who ran after it to alert the crew. The engineer chased after the Dauphin II helicopter on the runway in April last year to get the pilot's...

US Navy F-18 crashes in residential Virginia

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  • April 7, 2012
A US Navy F-18 jet has crashed shortly after take off in a residential area near Virginia Beach, Virginia. A navy spokesman told the BBC that the plane went down just before 12:08 (16:08 GMT) and two crew members ejected safely. The plane hit an a...

Texas tornadoes: Airport hit as Dallas counts cost

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  • April 6, 2012
US officials in Texas are assessing the damage after as many as a dozen tornadoes swept through densely populated areas of Dallas-Fort Worth. Thousands of passengers are stranded at the the city's airport, with some 424 flights cancelled. Several ...

Russian plane crash kills 32 in Siberia

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  • April 2, 2012
A Russian passenger plane carrying 43 people has crashed shortly after take-off in Siberia, officials say. Thirty-two people were killed and 11 survivors have been taken to hospital, Russia's emergencies ministry said. The ATR-72 turboprop aircraf...

Contaminated soil at Guernsey Airport to be removed

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  • March 18, 2012
Contaminated soil at Guernsey Airport will be removed as part of work to upgrade the airfield during the first of four planned two-day closures. Tuesday and Wednesday will be the first days when the airport will close to allow the £80m project to ...

Behind the scenes at an airport fire training centre

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  • March 18, 2012
Firefighters from all over the world have started training in a new multi-million pound centre at Edinburgh Airport. The purpose-built centre is designed to provide specialist courses for fire crews who would have to rescue passengers from a burni...

A Delta Airlines plane has slid off a runway in Georgia

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  • March 13, 2012
A Delta Airlines jet has slid off the end of the runway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in the US state of Georgia. The plane was testing its brakes by accelerating on the runway and then attempting to stop. However, the brakes...

Thames Estuary airport plans to be examined

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  • January 19, 2012
The government is to hold a formal consultation on UK aviation - including controversial plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary. The study, to begin in March, will look at options for "maintaining the UK's aviation hub status". Downing Stre...

Latin America's biggest airline LATAM is approved

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  • December 15, 2011
The merger of two major Latin American airlines has been approved, creating the largest carrier in the region. Brazil's anti-trust authorities said they approved the merger of the Brazilian airline TAM with Chile's LAN, first proposed in 2010. The...

Philippines plane crashes into school in Paranaque

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  • December 11, 2011
A small plane has crashed in the Philippines into a school building in Paranaque near the capital, Manila. At least 13 people were killed, including two children, police and Red Cross officials say. Paranaque's Mayor, Florencio Bernabe, said no c...

Jersey Airport closes for emergency exercise

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  • November 12, 2011
Jersey Airport will close on Saturday for an emergency exercise. The airport runway and terminal buildings will close at 19:00 GMT for the exercise to see how well it can respond to a serious emergency. But the early close means a two night stay i...

Russia ice hockey plane crash blamed on 'pilot error'

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  • November 2, 2011
A Russian plane crash that killed 44 people, including an entire ice hockey team, was caused by pilot error, say investigators. The Yak-42 plane came down on 7 September near the city of Yaroslavl. The investigators say the pilot activated the bra...

Plane carrying 230 passengers crash lands in Warsaw

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  • November 2, 2011
A Boeing 767 carrying 230 passengers has made an emergency landing at Warsaw airport after its landing gear failed. The plane, which was travelling from the US city of Newark, in New Jersey, landed on its belly without its wheels. It had circled a...

Boeing's Dreamliner begins first commercial flight

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  • October 26, 2011
Boeing's Dreamliner has finally taken off on its maiden commercial voyage, three years later than planned. The All Nippon Airlines (ANA) flight is carrying its first passengers from Tokyo to Hong Kong. The Dreamliner had originally been scheduled ...

Six dead in Nepal military rescue plane crash

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  • October 19, 2011
A military aircraft with six people on board which went missing in Nepal has been found to have crashed, killing all six people on board, officials say. The plane was returning to Kathmandu carrying a medical team from a rescue mission in western ...

Botswana air crash kills European tourists

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  • October 18, 2011
Seven European tourists have died in a plane crash in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana, officials say. The Cessna 208 came down shortly after take off on Friday from the Xakanaxa airfield, in a nature reserve in the north of the country, sai...

Warning over Edinburgh Airport training exercise

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  • October 11, 2011
Travellers at Edinburgh Airport are being told not to worry if they see fire engines which are taking part in a training exercise later. The exercise to test the "effectiveness" of Edinburgh Airport's emergency plan will take place between 18:00 a...

Qantas buys 110 Airbus aircraft for Asia expansion

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  • October 6, 2011
European aircraft maker Airbus has struck a deal worth US$9.5bn (£6.2bn) with Australia's Qantas for 110 jets. The order, said by Qantas to be the country's single largest aircraft purchase by units, will underpin the airline's expansion into...

Helicopter crashes into East River in New York City

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  • October 4, 2011
A woman has died and two others are seriously injured after a helicopter plunged into a river in New York City shortly after take-off, officials say. Police spokesman Paul Browne said the privately owned Bell 206 helicopter fell into East River ne...

All 18 people in Indonesia plane crash found dead

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  • October 1, 2011
All 18 people aboard a plane that crashed in western Indonesia earlier this week have been found dead, officials say. The Casa C-212 plane came down in a mountainous part of Sumatra on Thursday, but bad weather and rough terrain had hampered rescu...

Indonesia plane crashes in North Sumatra

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  • September 29, 2011
A plane carrying 18 people has crashed in a mountainous region of western Indonesia, government officials say. The Casa C-212 aircraft sent an emergency signal while flying between North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, the transport ministry's Herry B...

Southampton Airport invests in new fire engines

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  • September 28, 2011
Southampton Airport has spent £1m on two new specially-designed fire engines. It is thought to be one of the first UK airports to use the vehicles, which have been designed specifically to be used at airports. The engines of the two new vehi...

Nepal tourist plane crashes near Kathmandu killing 19

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  • September 25, 2011
A small plane has crashed in Nepal killing all 19 people on board, officials say. The Buddha Air plane was carrying 16 tourists to view Mount Everest and other peaks and was returning to the Nepalese capital. One person was rescued alive and taken...

Russia plane crash navigator 'had been drinking'

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  • September 19, 2011
The navigator of a Russian plane that crashed killing 47 people had been drinking alcohol, investigators say. The passenger aircraft, a RusAir flight from Moscow, hit a motorway minutes before it was to land at Petrozavodsk airport in June. The na...

Brazil judge halts Sao Paulo airport terminal work

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  • September 13, 2011
A federal court in Brazil has ordered an immediate halt to work on a new terminal at the main international airport in Sao Paulo. The judge said the state airport authority ignored the proper bidding process when awarding the contract for the proj...

Two Taiwan military jets 'crash'

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  • September 13, 2011
Two Taiwanese fighter jets are missing and may have crashed while on a training flight, reports from the island say. The defence ministry said that the two aircraft disappeared off radar shortly after taking off from an air base in Hualien, easter...

9/11 anniversary: US marks 10 years since attacks

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  • September 11, 2011
The US has started to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Security is tight following warnings of a possible al-Qaeda attack. The US embassy in Afghanistan has begun the ceremonies, with events ...

Russia's Lokomotiv ice hockey team in air disaster

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  • September 7, 2011
A chartered jet carrying Russia's major league ice hockey team Lokomotiv has crashed on take-off near the central city of Yaroslavl, with 43 deaths. Two people survived with serious injuries after the disaster, which saw the jet burst into flames ...

Chilean air force plane crashes in Pacific

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  • September 3, 2011
Twenty-one people are feared dead after a Chilean air force plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean on its way to the remote Juan Fernandez islands. Chilean Defence Minister Andres Allamand said the Casa-212 plane had twice tried to land at the island...

Turkish Airlines plane skids off runway in India

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  • September 2, 2011
A Turkish Airlines plane has skidded off the runway after landing at the airport in the Indian city of Mumbai, but no one had been injured. The Airbus A340 flight from Istanbul was carrying 97 passengers and crew. It is not clear what caused the i...

Crew survive as Nato jets collide over Lithuania

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  • August 30, 2011
French and Lithuanian jets have collided during a Nato exercise in the Baltic state but all three crew members involved escaped serious injury. The two pilots aboard the Lithuanian L-39 trainer ejected, after which their jet crashed in a rural are...

Gulf Air plane skids off runway in India

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  • August 29, 2011
Seven passengers were injured when a Gulf Air plane skidded off the runway as it came in to land at Kochi airport in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Officials said the 137 passengers and six crew arriving in bad weather from Bahrain had a na...

Crew unable to shut down engine during Shannon airport landing

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  • August 23, 2011
An initial report into what caused a flight to get into difficulty while landing at Shannon airport last month has found that the crew were unable to shut down the engines. The aircraft, operated by Aer Arann, was travelling from Manchester with 2...

Red Arrows pilot dies in Bournemouth Air Festival crash

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  • August 21, 2011
An RAF Red Arrows pilot died when his plane crashed following a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival in Dorset. Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, was killed when his Hawk T1 aircraft - Red 4 - crashed about 1km south east of Bournemouth Airp...

737 crash in Canada kills 12

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  • August 21, 2011
A Boeing 737 passenger jet has crashed in the Canadian Arctic killing 12 people and injuring 3 others on board. First Air Charter flight 6560 was travelling from Yellowknife to Resolute in Canada's northern Arctic region when it crashed less than ...

Helicopter crash kills TV crew

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  • August 20, 2011
Tributes are flowing in for three veteran ABC newsman who were killed when their helicopter crashed near Lake Eyre in remote outback Australia on Thursday. Journalist Paul Lockyer, pilot Gary Ticehurst and cameraman John Bean had been working on n...

2 killed in home-made ultra light crash

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  • August 18, 2011
The bodies of two men have been found near the wreckage of a home-made ultra light aircraft east of Emerald, in Central Queensland, Australia. The aircraft was reported missing late yesterday afternoon after the men had taken the aircraft for a pr...

2 killed in charity flight

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  • August 18, 2011
A charity flight has crashed near Horsham in Victoria Australia, killing a 15 year old girl, volunteer pilot and has left the girl's 43 year old mother in a critical condition in hospital. The plane operated by the charity organisation Angel Fligh...

Birmingham Airport liver transplant plane crashed in fog

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  • August 11, 2011
A plane carrying a donor liver flew into an antenna as it came in to land at Birmingham Airport in thick fog, the Air Accident Investigation Branch said. The Cessna, from Belfast, hit a 50ft-high flight-guiding antenna on 19 November then crash la...

Plane lands at Belfast City Airport after alert warning

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  • August 9, 2011
Ambulances and fire appliances have been sent to the George Best Belfast City Airport after a plane developed a "technical fault" while in-flight. The Flybe plane was travelling from East Midlands Airport, with 41 passengers and five crew on board...

Russian cargo plane crash in Magadan 'kills 11'

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  • August 9, 2011
A Russian cargo plane has crashed in a remote far eastern area, with all 11 people on board believed to have been killed, prosecutors say. The wreckage of the Antonov-12 plane was found in the Magadan region after going missing earlier on Tuesday....

Fire truck in deadly crash on way to blaze

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  • August 7, 2011
Two people are dead after a fire truck crashed into a four-wheel-drive while racing to fight a fire in Darwin on Sunday. Commander Kym Davies from Darwin Police says the airport fire truck was travelling to a warehouse blaze in the suburb of Berri...

9 dead after helicopter crash in Indonesia

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  • August 4, 2011
Nine people were killed when a helicopter crashed near Manado in the northern Sulawesi region of Indonesia on Wednesday. The Bell 412 helicopter operated by PT Nyaman Air and chartered by PT Nusa Halmahera Minerals was flying from Manado on S...

Virgin Australia plane evacuated after bomb threat

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  • August 4, 2011
A Virgin Australia flight was delayed today after a bomb threat was made by a passenger on board as the aircraft was taxiing to take off in Sydney, Australia. DJ402 bound for Adelaide with 41 passengers and crew on board immediately stopped w...

FAA shutdown could cost US $1bn (£610m) in lost taxes

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  • August 3, 2011
The US could lose up to $1bn (£610m) in airline ticket taxes, officials say, amid an impasse in Congress over the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The agency has been forced into partial shutdown after its operating authority expired on...

Edinburgh Airport boss resigns after year in post

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  • August 2, 2011
The managing director of Edinburgh Airport has resigned after a year in post. Kevin Brown is starting a new job next month as chief executive officer at North Queensland Airport Group, which is based in Cairns, Australia. BAA said Jim O'Sullivan, ...

Plane from New York crashes at Guyana airport

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  • July 31, 2011
A plane has crashed and broken in two on landing at Guyana's main airport in the capital, Georgetown, causing injuries but no deaths. The Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight BW-523 from New York had 163 people aboard. The plane apparently ove...

Air France Rio crash: Pilots 'lacked training'

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  • July 30, 2011
The pilots of an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic in 2009 lacked adequate training, French investigators have found. France's BEA authority said pilots had failed to discuss repeated stall warnings and did not have the training to d...

Poland: Russia shares blame for presidential jet crash

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  • July 30, 2011
A Polish report has found that Russia was partly to blame for the air crash last year which killed then-President Lech Kaczynski. It said that pilot error was the main reason for the crash, but that air controllers and poor lighting at Smolensk we...

Two die as Boeing 747 cargo jet crashes off South Korea

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  • July 28, 2011
Both pilots aboard a China-bound Boeing 747 cargo jet were killed when it crashed off South Korea after experiencing mechanical problems. The plane, which was flying for South Korea's Asiana Airlines, came down off Jeju island in the very south of...

Female pilot killed in helicopter crash in remote Western Australia

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  • July 28, 2011
A helicopter pilot has been killed in a crash in the remote north-west of Western Australia. The 48 year old female pilot from Brooking Springs cattle station failed to return from Big Rock Dam about 55km away when her partner raised the alarm. Th...

Air Canada Boeing 777 forced to land due to smoke in the galley

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  • July 28, 2011
An Air Canada Boeing 777 was forced to turn back shortly after take off from Sydney Airport after smoke was seen issuing from an oven on board. Flight AC-34 with 262 passengers departed Sydney at 10:25am en route to Vancouver when smoke was spotte...

Morocco military plane crash kills 78

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  • July 26, 2011
Seventy-eight people were killed when a Moroccan military aircraft crashed into a mountain in the south of the country, the army says. The army said three other people were severely wounded in the crash, in what is thought to be one of Morocco's d...

Helicopter crash kills 2 in Sydney, Australia

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  • July 22, 2011
A Bell 206 helicopter has crashed in bushland in Sydney's north killing 2 occupants. The incident which happened at approximately 0900 AEST occurred during bad weather with the wreckage strewn over a large area over difficult terrain. Th...

Qantas unveils new maintenance control system

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  • July 20, 2011
Qantas Airways has unveiled plans to implement a new high-tech aircraft maintenence control system that will allow engineers to use mobile devices like laptops and iPads while they work on aircraft to obtain maintenance instructions, locate and or...

Helicopter crash kills 5 in Thailand

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  • July 17, 2011
A military helicopter has crashed in the mountainous Kaeng Krachen National Park in Thailand killing all 5 occupants who were Thai military officers. The helicopter, carrying four pilots and one mechanic lost contact with the military base while i...

Brazil plane crash in Recife kills all 16 on board

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  • July 14, 2011
A twin-engine aircraft has crashed in north-east Brazil, killing all 16 people on board. The crew had reported problems almost immediately after take-off from the city of Recife, officials said. They said the pilot had apparently tried to land on ...

Fighter plane collision at Duxford show investigated

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  • July 11, 2011
An inquiry has begun after two classic US fighter planes collided during an air display show in Cambridgeshire. One of the planes, thought to be a P-51 Mustang, plummeted to the ground after their wings touched, forcing the pilot to parachute to s...

DR Congo plane crashes at Kisangani airport

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  • July 8, 2011
A passenger plane with 112 people on board has crashed at Kisangani airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say. Up to 40 people have been found alive, but more than 50 others are known to have died, reports say. The plane, operated...

Cargo plane crash in Afghanistan

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  • July 6, 2011
An Azeri cargo plane chartered by foreign forces has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. The Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76 was carrying nine crew when it went down overnight in the mountainous Siagerd area. The crew's fate is unclear. Rep...

Puma military helicopter crash lands in Hampshire

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  • July 5, 2011
The crew of a military helicopter suffered minor injuries after crash landing near an industrial estate in Hampshire. The Puma helicopter was on a training exercise from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire when it came down in a field close to the A303 in A...

Tiger Airways grounded in Australia over serious safety concerns

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  • July 2, 2011
The aviation safety regulator in Australia has suspended all Tiger Airways flights in Australia for the next week following an incident on Thursday night involving a Tiger Airbus A320. The aircraft flew into Avalon Airport southwest of Melbou...

Lightning strike disrupts Gatwick Airport flights

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  • June 28, 2011
Passengers faced disruption after lightning struck the control tower at Gatwick Airport. The airport said the tower was hit at about 1400 BST during thunderstorms that swept across the South East. A spokeswoman said departing flights were delayed ...

Passenger planes were only minutes from collision

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  • June 24, 2011
A report into a near collision involving two planes flying over the Northern Territory has found an air traffic controller had no idea the aircraft were on course to crash into each other. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released...

Seaplane crashes and kills two in Australia

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  • June 24, 2011
A seaplane has crashed in Lake Jindabyne, New South Wales killing the pilot and another male passenger. Around 11:30am, a number of reports were received indicating an aircraft had crashed into the northern area of Lake Jindabyne.  ...

Qantas 747 makes emergency landing in Brisbane, Australia

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  • June 24, 2011
A 747 with 367 people on board made an emergency landing in Brisbane just before 7:00am this morning after a short circuit in a fan at the rear of the aircraft caused a burning odour to fill the cabin. The pilot of QF16 inbound...

Lufthansa and Egypt Air in 'near miss' at JFK runway

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  • June 22, 2011
A Lufthansa jet was forced to abort a take-off from New York's JFK airport after an Egyptian plane on the ground strayed too close to the runway. "Cancel take-off plans," the American air traffic control official shouted over the radio. A US air t...

Qantas announces profits and Rolls-Royce settlement

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  • June 22, 2011
Australian carrier Qantas has agreed on a settlement with engine-maker Rolls-Royce over a mid-air blast incident and the grounding of the Qantas fleet of superjumbos. Rolls-Royce will pay 95m Australian dollars ($100m; £62m), said Qantas. The...

Australian flights resume as Chile volcano ash clears

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  • June 22, 2011
Flights are gradually resuming from airports across Australia after two days of cancellations caused by an ash cloud from a Chilean volcano. Qantas and Virgin jets took off from Adelaide on Wednesday morning. Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney airport...

Norwich Airport alert over smoke smell on Flybe plane

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  • June 22, 2011
Emergency services were called to Norwich Airport when the pilot of an incoming flight reported the smell of smoke in the cockpit. Fifteen fire engines and several ambulances were sent to the airport to meet the flight from Edinburgh. The Flybe 54...

'Pilot error' blamed for north-west Russia crash

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  • June 21, 2011
Officials are investigating the cause of a plane crash in north-western Russia that killed 44 people. Russian Deputy PM Sergey Ivanov said the crash, near the city of Petrozavodsk, was probably caused by pilot error in poor weather conditions. The...

Chile volcano ash causes renewed air chaos in Australia

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  • June 21, 2011
Australia's two major airports are facing up to 48 hours of disruption as the ash cloud from a Chilean volcano drifts across the south of the country. Qantas and Virgin have cancelled all flights into and out of Sydney and Melbourne. Adelaide air...

Plane crash in north-west Russia's Karelia kills 44

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  • June 21, 2011
Forty-four people have been killed and eight injured in a plane crash in north-western Russia, officials say. The aircraft attempted to land on a motorway about 1km (0.6 miles) from Petrozavodsk airport in the republic of Karelia, but crashed and ...

Paris Air Show: Accidents blight Airbus

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  • June 20, 2011
Airbus' appearance at the Paris Air Show has been blighted by misfortune, with two key planes damaged. The wing tip of its demonstration A380 superjumbo struck a building at Le Bourguet airport venue during taxiing. Gearbox problems have stopped i...

South Korean troops mistakenly shoot at passenger jet

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  • June 18, 2011
South Korean troops have fired at a passenger jet after mistaking it for a North Korean aircraft. Soldiers on Gyodong island, off South Korea's west coast, fired 99 rifle rounds at the Asiana flight, which was out of range and landed undamaged. Th...

Smoke reported on Glasgow-Stornoway aircraft

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  • June 16, 2011
An emergency was declared at Glasgow Airport following reports of smoke coming from the engine of an aircraft. The Loganair plane was taxiing at the time, ahead of flying from Glasgow to Stornoway with 30 passengers. No-one was hurt in the inciden...

Chile volcano disrupts flights in Western Australia

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  • June 15, 2011
Flights into and out of Perth in Western Australia have been cancelled due to the volcanic eruption in Chile. Airlines Qantas, Virgin and Jetstar said the ash cloud was too low around Perth for aircraft to fly safely. Winds have carried particles ...

Eritrea volcano: Ash disrupts air travel in East Africa

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  • June 15, 2011
Flights to East Africa have been severely disrupted as ash from an Eritrean volcano spreads across the region and heads towards Saudi Arabia. Several airlines said they had stopped flying to Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti and Ethiopia. The ash cloud was...

Ash grounds flights in Perth Western Australia

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  • June 15, 2011
The cloud of ash from the Chilean volcano is set to cause further disruptions to Australian airspace today with the volcanic plume affecting parts of Western Australia, including the state capital, Perth. Virgin Australia announced that it wi...

Chile ash cloud delays more flights on two continents

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  • June 14, 2011
Flights in South America, Australia and New Zealand are still being disrupted by ash from a volcano in Chile, affecting thousands of passengers. Hopes of a resumption of air travel from Argentina's capital were dashed after more ash fell on Buenos...

Vintage WWII bomber 'Liberty Belle' crashes near Chicago

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  • June 14, 2011
An American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber used for exhibition flights has caught fire and crashed in a field outside Chicago. The vintage plane took off from Aurora Municipal Airport and crashed about 20 minutes later in nearby Oswego County, Illino...

Eritrea eruption: Lufthansa cancels flights due to ash

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  • June 13, 2011
An ash cloud following an eruption in Eritrea has led to the cancellation of some flights to East Africa. The German airline Lufthansa said it had cancelled flights to Eritrea and neighbouring Ethiopia. It was the volcano's first eruption since 18...

Tiger Airbus A320 altitude breach in Melbourne

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  • June 8, 2011
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is investigating an incident involving a Tiger Airways Airbus A320. Flight TT 5207 with approximately 150 people on board had flown from Brisbane to Melbourne where the incident occurred at 9:02pm, yesterday....

Air France crash salvage mission ends

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  • June 8, 2011
Salvage teams have finished retrieving bodies and wreckage from an Air France plane which crashed into the Atlantic in 2009. Spokesman for the victims' relatives Philippe Vinogradoff said 104 bodies - all that were deemed recoverable - had been ha...

Chile volcano ash cloud flight disruption spreads

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  • June 7, 2011
Flights in several South American countries are being disrupted by clouds of ash spewed by a Chile volcano range. Flight to and from the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, have been suspended, while in Chile, Santiago airport has also seen cancellat...

Singapore Air in code share deal with Virgin Australia

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  • June 7, 2011
Singapore Airlines and Virgin Australia have entered a partnership which allows them to sell tickets and seats on each other's international and domestic flights. The so called code-sharing agreement will mean passengers may purchase a seat with V...

Qantas 747 in mid-air scare

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  • June 6, 2011
A Qantas 747-400 bound for Brisbane, Australia with 360 passengers on board was forced to return to Singapore after its landing gear would not retract. Flight QF52 left Changi Airport around 11:00pm but pilots were unable to retract the landi...

Military planes in 'near-miss' over Linton-on-Ouse

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  • June 2, 2011
Three military planes came close to colliding in North Yorkshire, an independent report has revealed. A Tucano and two Royal Navy hawk aircraft were coming into land at RAF Linton-on-Ouse when they were involved in a near-miss last October. Invest...

Rats in cabin ground Qantas jet

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  • June 2, 2011
The discovery of five baby rats in a cabin compartment on a Qantas jet has caused a flight to be grounded. Air crew found the rats minutes before passengers were due to board a Boeing 767 flying from Sydney to Brisbane. The airline said it was a r...

Pilot's final words before jet crashes into Kent house

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  • May 31, 2011
A pilot's final words before his doomed private jet plunged into a house in Kent have been replayed at an inquest into the deaths of its five occupants. Michael Roberts reported a problem within a minute of take-off from Biggin Hill airport en rou...

Australian pilot 'blacks out' for 55 minutes while his plane flew itself for 250km

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  • May 29, 2011
A trainee pilot sat unconscious for 55 minutes while his plane flew itself for 250km over South Australia. An investigation into the incident and subsequent report released this week by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau revealed that the youn...

Final suspect convicted of JFK airport plot in New York

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  • May 27, 2011
A former leader of the Shia Muslim community in Trinidad has been convicted of taking part in a failed plot to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines at JFK airport in New York. Kareem Ibrahim was convicted of five conspiracy counts in the plot, which o...

Air France Rio crash: Jet plunged in minutes

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  • May 27, 2011
The Air France jet which crashed into the Atlantic en route from Rio in 2009 stalled and fell in three and a half minutes, French investigators report. The air accident investigations bureau (BEA) found the crew had struggled with contradictory sp...

Air ambulance crash kills 10 in India

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  • May 26, 2011
Authorities in India are investigating the crash of a small medical ambulance aircraft near the capital, Delhi, which killed 10 people. The plane crashed on Wednesday night in a residential area in Faridabad town in the northern state of Haryana. ...

Iceland volcano ash closes airspace in northern Germany

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  • May 25, 2011
Germany is closing its northern airspace on Wednesday because of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland, officials say. Bremen airport was closing at 0300 GMT and Hamburg at 0400 GMT, Germany's weather service said. The airspace over Berlin and H...

Iceland volcanic ash cloud set to reach UK

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  • May 23, 2011
A volcanic ash cloud from Iceland is expected to reach parts of the UK by the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Met Office has said. It does not mean there will definitely be airspace closures but makes flight disruption more likely, it said. Th...

Iceland volcano: Grimsvotn eruption hits local flight

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  • May 22, 2011
The Icelandic authorities have imposed a local flight ban after the country's most active volcano, Grimsvotn, began erupting. A plume of smoke has risen 20km (12 miles) into the sky from the volcano. But Iceland's Meteorological Office says the er...

Qantas flight returns to Bangkok after engine shutdown

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  • May 20, 2011
A Qantas plane was forced to shut down an engine and return to Bangkok, the latest incident related to a Rolls-Royce engine. The Boeing 747 was carrying 308 passengers and was bound for London. The pilots noticed "vibration and high temperatures" ...

Argentina plane crash kills all 22 people on board

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  • May 19, 2011
A small plane has crashed in southern Argentina, killing all 22 passengers and crew on board, officials say. The plane went down in the Patagonian province of Rio Negro, after issuing a distress call, the operating company Sol Airlines said. Rescu...

Royal Australian Air Force aircraft crashes in Victoria, Australia

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  • May 18, 2011
A Royal Australian Airforce (RAAF) flight instructor and his student pilot have ejected from a Pilatus PC-9/A aircraft moments before it crashed near a military base in Sale, Victoria. The incident happened just after 3:00pm on Wednesday 18th May ...

Family raise safety concerns over Cork plane crash

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  • May 17, 2011
The family of a pilot killed in the Cork air crash in February said they have concerns over safety issues. Andrew Cantle, 27, from York, was at the controls of the plane which was being operated for Manx2 in heavy fog on a third attempt to land. M...

Air France crash: Airbus has 'no concerns' over A330

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  • May 17, 2011
Airbus has reportedly reassured airlines over the safety of its A330 jet after an early reading of data from an Air France jet that crashed in 2009. The plane manufacturer told them it had no new safety recommendations after seeing flight recorder...

Rolls-Royce to investigate Singapore emergency landing

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  • May 17, 2011
Rolls-Royce has launched an investigation after a plane carrying 136 people had to make an emergency landing in Singapore. The Cathay Pacific Airbus A330-300 experienced problems in one of its two Rolls-Royce engines shortly after taking off for ...

Air France Rio crash: Black box recorder data 'intact'

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  • May 16, 2011
Flight recordings from an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 have been preserved and are readable, French investigators have said. They said the material from the voice and data recorders, retrieved earlier this month off ...

Air France Rio crash: Report not expected before 2012

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  • May 13, 2011
Investigators have said they expect their report into the cause of the 2009 Air France disaster over the Atlantic to be ready no sooner than early 2012. Speaking in Paris, they said it could take months to interpret data from the flight recorders,...

Airport alert over computer check

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  • May 11, 2011
An island airport was evacuated after a passenger's computer tested positive during an explosives security test. Police launched an investigation involving special branch following the incident at Islay airport in the Inner Hebrides during the mor...

Robert Hersey denies Delta plane door tampering charge

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  • May 11, 2011
A US man accused of trying to open an emergency exit door during a Florida to Boston flight has denied a charge of interfering with a plane's operation. Prosecutors said Robert Hersey, 43, of Arlington, Massachusetts, had tampered with the door, t...

UN anti-drugs staff die as plane hits tree in Bolivia

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  • May 9, 2011
Four UN anti-narcotics staff and two Bolivian military pilots died when their plane crashed in western Bolivia, officials in the country have said. The Bolivian Air Force said the Cessna, missing since Thursday, had been flying over the country's ...

Indonesia: 'No survivors' after plane crashes off Papua

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  • May 9, 2011
There were no survivors from the crash of an Indonesian passenger aircraft into the sea with up to 27 people on board, a navy officer says. The plane went into the sea in poor weather just short of the airstrip serving the small port town of Kaima...

Two bodies found in crashed plane pulled from Essex lake

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  • April 28, 2011
Two bodies of two men have been found in a light aircraft that crashed into a lake in Essex. The plane crashed into the lake at Ulting Lane in Langford, near Maldon, at about 1300 BST. It was lifted from the water during the evening with the bodie...

Brazil Air France crash: Flight recorder found empty

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  • April 28, 2011
Search teams say they have discovered part of a flight recorder from the Air France plane that crashed in 2009, off the coast of Brazil. But they say they have yet to find the section containing crucial data which could reveal the cause of the cra...

France: Mulhouse airport traffic controller killed

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  • April 27, 2011
An air traffic controller has been found stabbed to death at the EuroAirport outside Mulhouse, France, near the Swiss and German borders. Police say the 34-year-old was found in a pool of blood in an office in the control tower that is accessible ...

Volcanic ash air shutdown the 'right' decision

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  • April 26, 2011
The eruption shut down European airspace in April 2010 Concerns about aircraft safety during the eruption of an Icelandic volcano in 2010 were well founded, according to a new scientific study. Ash particles from the early phase of the eruption we...

Lambert-St Louis airport to reopen after tornado

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  • April 24, 2011
The US airport of Lambert-St Louis is reopening after a tornado ripped through its main terminal. The storm in the state of Missouri tore off a large section of the terminal's roof, shattering windows and sending debris flying. Several people were...

FAA fires sleeping air traffic controllers

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  • April 21, 2011
The US aviation agency has taken fresh steps to address problems in the air traffic control system following a string of embarrassing lapses. Two air traffic controllers who were among several suspended for sleeping on the job have now been fired....

Bird strike forces emergency Thomson jet landing

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  • April 21, 2011
A Gatwick-bound plane had to make an emergency landing after a bird struck one of the aircraft's engines shortly after it took off from Florida. Thomson Flight TOM033, carrying 254 people and 12 crew, was hit by the bird minutes after it left Sanf...

Seventeen die in helicopter crash in north-east India

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  • April 20, 2011
Seventeen people, including two children, have been killed in a helicopter crash in India's north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Mi-17 helicopter, carrying 23 passengers, was approaching the state capital, Tawang, when it caught fire and ...

George Best Belfast City Airport: new inquiry call

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  • April 19, 2011
The Department of Environment has submitted a new request for a public inquiry into plans to extend the runway at George Best Belfast City Airport. The Planning Appeals Commission (PAC) refused to proceed with an inquiry last year. It wanted the d...

Family tribute to fire chief killed at Cotswold Airport

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  • April 19, 2011
The family of a man who was killed in an industrial incident at Cotswold Airport have paid tribute, describing him as "a loving family man". Airport fire services manager Steven Mills, 45, from Malmesbury in Wiltshire, died on 8 April. His sister ...

Sleeping air traffic controllers given new shift rules

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  • April 17, 2011
The US aviation agency is changing air traffic controllers' work scheduling in the wake of several incidents in which controllers fell asleep on duty. The Federal Aviation Administration said it would do "everything we can to put an end to this". ...

Brazil's airports 'not ready for World Cup 2014'

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  • April 16, 2011
Most of Brazil's airports being improved for the World Cup in 2014 will not be ready in time, a report warns. Of 13 terminals being upgraded, 10 are unlikely to be completed by June 2014, the government-backed Institute for Applied Economic Resear...

Tributes paid to Cotswold Airport fire services manager

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  • April 15, 2011
Tributes have been paid to a fire chief who was killed in an industrial accident at Cotswold Airport. Steve Mills, who worked at the airport, died on Friday. The Health and Safety Executive said an investigation had started. Mr Mills had been a re...

Thomas Cook jet landed safely after leak, says report

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  • April 14, 2011
Pilots managed to land a UK-bound holiday flight safely after losing more than a tonne of fuel from an engine leak, an air accident report has shown. The Thomas Cook Boeing 757-200, with 226 passengers and eight crew on board, flew to Gatwick A...

£600m Airport City plan set for take off in Manchester

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  • April 10, 2011
Manchester Airport said it was confident of attracting "leading international companies" for its planned £600m Airport City. The proposed business park is one of just four new Enterprise Zones confirmed in the budget. MAG Developments - the ...

Ronald Fowles admits drunk aircraft bomb threat

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  • April 4, 2011
A man who was dragged off an aircraft after shouting "there is a bomb on this plane" has been given a four-month jail sentence at Southwark Crown Court. Ronald Fowles, 59, of Edred Road, Dover, who admitted being drunk on an aircraft, had been due...

Small cracks found in three Southwest Airlines jets

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  • April 4, 2011
Small, sub-surface cracks have been found in three more Southwest Airlines planes like those thought to have caused another to develop a hole in its cabin roof mid-flight, officials say. The National Transportation Safety Board said it had been in...

UK plane lands at Athens after bomb threat

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  • April 4, 2011
A British passenger plane has made an emergency landing in Athens following a bomb threat, officials say. Greek fighter jets were scrambled to escort the Thomson Airways Boeing 757-200, which was on its way from Bristol to the popular resort of Sh...

Air France Rio crash dead 'to be recovered'

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  • April 4, 2011
Specialists could start recovering bodies of those killed in Air France's 2009 plane crash off Brazil within weeks, French officials say. Undersea robots finally uncovered a large part of the wreckage, including bodies, on Sunday. The "black-box" ...

Fatal UN plane crash at DR Congo's Kinshasa airport

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  • April 4, 2011
A UN plane has crashed at Kinshasa airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 20 people, UN sources say. The plane broke up when it hit the runway as the pilot was trying to land amid heavy rain at about 1300 GMT, according to ...

Holed Southwest Airlines flight makes emergency landing

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  • April 2, 2011
An airliner has made an emergency landing in the United States after a gaping hole in the roof caused a sudden drop in cabin pressure. Southwest Airlines flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento put down safely at a military air base in Arizona. Pass...

India revokes licences of 14 'fake pilots'

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  • March 28, 2011
The licences of 14 pilots have been revoked by India's aviation authorities as they were allegedly proved to be flying with fake documents. A police probe found a flying club had issued "fake records" of their training sessions, India's civil avia...

Congo: Cargo plane crashes in Pointe-Noire

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  • March 21, 2011
A transport plane has crashed in a residential area of Congo-Brazzaville's economic capital, Pointe-Noire. One witness said ambulances were taking the dead to the mortuary and the wounded to hospital. Civil aviation head Michel Ambende said the pl...

Airbus faces manslaughter charges over Rio crash

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  • March 20, 2011
A French judge has filed preliminary manslaughter charges against European aircraft maker Airbus over a crash in 2009. All of the 228 people onboard were killed when an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris came down in the Atlantic Ocean...

Cork crash plane 'had no faults'

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  • March 16, 2011
An interim report into last month's plane crash in thick fog in Cork has found no faults with the aircraft or the airport landing systems. Six people died when the Manx2 airline plane crashed on approach to Cork Airport while on a flight from Belf...

Flybe aeroplane wheel comes off in Exeter take-off

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  • March 3, 2011
A Flybe plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Exeter Airport after a wheel fell off. The Flybe Bombardier Q400 took off from Exeter International Airport bound for Newcastle at 1225 GMT with 39 passengers and four crew on board. A wheel...

Four Americans killed in UAE as small plane crashes

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  • February 28, 2011
Four Americans were killed when the small plane they were travelling in crashed shortly after take-off in the United Arab Emirates. The aircraft was en route to Saudia Arabia - the first leg of a return trip to the US, the US embassy said. The pla...

Qantas A380 problems bite into half-year profits

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  • February 17, 2011
Qantas Airways said its first half net profits had risen four-fold, but it added that last year's explosion in one of its Rolls-Royce engines had wiped off $55m (£34.4m). The breakdown led to the grounding of its A380 aircraft last year. The ...

China to build new Sudan airport in Khartoum

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  • February 15, 2011
A state-owned Chinese company has signed a $1.2bn (£750m) contract to build a new airport in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The new airport will have a runway long enough for the giant Airbus A380, says the China Communications Construction ...

Air traffic control hitch affecting UK flights resolved

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  • February 15, 2011
Air Traffic controllers say problems they were experiencing over the North of England and Scotland have been resolved. Operations are back to normal, National Air Traffic Services (Nats) said. Flights had been disrupted for much of the day, with a...

Honduras vice-minister Robelo among 14 plane crash dead

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  • February 14, 2011
A deputy minister, Rodolfo Robelo, is among 14 people reported dead in a plane crash in Honduras. The small commercial plane was on a routine scheduled flight from the coastal city of San Pedro Sula to the capital, Tegucigalpa. Also among those ki...

Boeing unveils new 747-8 Intercontinental

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  • February 14, 2011
US planemaker Boeing has unveiled the latest version of its jumbo jet. The 747-8 Intercontinental will seat 467 passengers - 51 more than the current 747 - while burning less fuel, the firm says. But Boeing has won just 33 orders for the passenge...

Mock hijack exercise tests 999 crews in Lancashire

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  • February 12, 2011
About 150 firefighters from north-west England and Northern Ireland have been taking part in an exercise simulating a terrorist attack. The mock incident was held at Lancashire Fire Service's training centre in Washington Hall, Euxton. The scenari...

Full services resume at Cork Airport after crash

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  • February 12, 2011
Full services have resumed at Cork Airport following the clearance of the wreckage of the plane which crashed killing six people. The first flight of the day, an Aer Lingus plane bound for Amsterdam, took off shortly after 0600 GMT on Saturday. On...

Cork Airport is to re-open on Friday evening

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  • February 11, 2011
Cork Airport is expected to re-open at 2000 GMT on Friday, following the clearance of the wreckage of the Metroliner Turboprop plane which crashed, killing six people. Airlines including Aer Lingus have begun manning the check-in desks at the airp...

Investigations into the Cork airport crash under way

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  • February 11, 2011
Investigations are under way into the crash that killed six people at Cork Airport on Thursday morning. The wreckage of the Manx2 plane remains at Cork on Friday morning as air accident investigators try to find out precisely what went wrong. Two ...

Crew eject in second RAF Tornado crash

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  • February 10, 2011
An RAF Tornado has crashed as it attempted to land at its Lossiemouth base, two weeks after another jet crashed into the sea. The RAF has confirmed the two crewmen ejected safely during the incident which happened shortly after 1700 BST. On 27 Jan...

President's relative among six killed in Cork crash

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  • February 10, 2011
Six people, including a relative of the Irish president, have been killed and six others injured after a plane from Belfast crashed in fog at Cork Airport. The Manx2 commuter flight with 10 passengers and two crew on board crashed on the runway o...

Briton killed in Iraq plane crash

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  • February 5, 2011
A British man has been killed in a plane crash in Iraq. He was one of seven passengers who died when the plane crashed shortly after taking off from Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq on Friday. The Associated Press reports the plane caught fire and cr...

New air traffic control tower for Manchester Airport

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  • February 4, 2011
A new air traffic control tower is to be built at Manchester Airport. Airport officials said the 60m-high tower will be the second highest in the UK. Tim McDermott, Manchester Airport's operations director, said that the new tower would be "a fant...

Plane undercarriage collapsed as it landed at airport

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  • February 1, 2011
The undercarriage of a light aircraft collapsed as it landed at Jersey Airport. The plane - which was en route from Exeter to Guernsey was diverted to Jersey as a result of weather conditions at Guernsey Airport. On landing it veered onto grass n...

Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport

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  • January 24, 2011
A bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport has killed at least 35 people and injured more than 100 - many of them critically, officials say. Investigators say the explosion, which happened in the arrivals hall, was caused by a suicide bomber. P...

Kaczynski air crash: Russia blames Polish pilot error

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  • January 12, 2011
Russia has blamed the Smolensk air crash which killed the Polish president and nearly 100 other people in April on Polish pilot error. The Polish crew failed to heed bad weather warnings because they were afraid of displeasing President Lech Kaczy...

Iran investigates IranAir passenger plane crash

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  • January 10, 2011
Iran has begun an investigation into a passenger plane crash in the north-west of the country which killed at least 77 people. The IranAir Boeing 727, which was carrying 104 people, was flying from Tehran when it came down and broke into pieces ne...

Iran passenger plane 'crashes' near Orumiyeh

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  • January 9, 2011
An Iranian passenger plane with more than 100 people on board has crashed, Iranian media have reported. The semi-official Fars news agency said of the 105 passengers and crew on board, at least 50 had survived. The IranAir plane was flying from th...

F16 jet fighter makes emergency landing at Prestwick

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  • January 8, 2011
An F16 jet fighter aircraft has made an emergency landing at Glasgow Prestwick Airport after suffering a fuel leak. The airport activated its emergency response programme and alerted local fire, police and ambulance services. The alarm was raised ...

Helicopter lands safely at Aberdeen Airport after alert

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  • January 4, 2011
A helicopter has landed safely at Aberdeen Airport after a full emergency was declared due to a warning light. The alarm was raised shortly after 1400 GMT, and police, fire and ambulance crews were all called out. The CHC Super Puma L2, with 12 pa...

Russia grounds all Tu-154Bs after fatal fire

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  • January 2, 2011
Russia's airlines must ground their Tu-154B planes, after a fire in Siberia which killed three people, the country's transport watchdog says. At least 43 were injured when the plane, carrying 124 people, burst into flames before take-off from Surg...

Russia pop group Na-Na describe plane fire 'panic'

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  • January 1, 2011
Members of a Russian pop group, Na-Na, have described the panic on board a passenger jet when it caught fire and later exploded at a Siberian airport. Three people were killed and at least 43 were injured after the Russian plane, carrying 124 peop...

Bravery awards for Glasgow Airport attack heroes

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  • December 14, 2010
Seven people, including two policemen, have received bravery awards for their actions on the day of the terror attack on Glasgow Airport. Sgt Torquil Campbell and Pc Stewart Ferguson tackled the two men who drove a blazing Jeep into the terminal b...

Fireman speaks of transplant organ rescue from plane crash

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  • December 6, 2010
The firefighter who pulled a pilot to safety and rescued a transplant organ after a plane crash at Birmingham Airport has spoken of his pride at the successful rescue mission. Lead firefighter Nick Jordan, from the airport's fire and rescue servic...

Two dead as engine failure airliner lands in Moscow

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  • December 4, 2010
Two people were killed and more than 80 others injured when a passenger plane rolled off the runway after making an emergency landing at a Moscow airport, Russian officials say. All of the plane's three engines had failed by the time it landed at ...

Qantas Airbus A380 saved by 'quick' crew, says ATSB

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  • December 4, 2010
The Qantas Airbus A380 that experienced an engine explosion would not have arrived safely without the quick thinking of crew, a report has said. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has published its report into the incident. The ATSB con...

Rolls-Royce A380 engine had 'manufacturing fault'

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  • December 2, 2010
Air safety investigators in Australia say they have identified a serious manufacturing fault with some engines fitted to Airbus A380 passenger jets. A misaligned component of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine used on a Qantas A380 which exploded la...

Cargo plane crashes in Karachi, killing at least 11

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  • November 28, 2010
A cargo plane carrying eight people has crashed shortly after taking off from Karachi airport in Pakistan, killing all those on board. The bodies of another three people killed on the ground have been found. The Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76, crewe...

Plane from Karachi crashes with eight people on board

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  • November 27, 2010
A plane with eight people on board has crashed shortly after taking off from Karachi airport in Pakistan, local officials say. They say it was a Russian-made cargo plane, which was reportedly heading to Sudan's capital Khartoum. TV footage showed ...

Boeing Dreamliner 'a failure', says Qatar Airways boss

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  • November 26, 2010
The chief executive of Qatar Airways has criticised Boeing over delays to the 787 Dreamliner, reportedly saying that it has "clearly failed". Akbar Al Baker said he had been "taken aback" by the problems that have plagued the delivery of the aircr...

Thomson plane overshoots runway at Newcastle Airport

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  • November 26, 2010
A passenger plane at Newcastle Airport has overshot the runway. It happened just before 2100 GMT on Thursday when the aircraft travelled a short distance past its runway stop position, Northumbria Police said. Passengers were allowed to leave the ...

Qantas to resume flying Airbus A380 superjumbos

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  • November 23, 2010
Qantas says it is to resume flying some of its A380 superjumbos on Saturday, three weeks after an engine explosion forced one of the airline's A380 planes to make an emergency landing. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said he was satisfied the ai...

Passenger jet lands safely after reports of fire on wing

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  • November 22, 2010
A US passenger jet bound for Moscow has returned safely to a New York airport after reports its wing had caught fire. The Delta Airlines Boeing 767 dumped fuel and turned back to John F Kennedy Airport after reports of engine trouble soon after ta...

Birmingham Airport shut as transplant aircraft crashes

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  • November 19, 2010
Birmingham Airport has been closed until 0600 GMT on Saturday after a small private jet carrying a liver for transplant crashed on a runway. Two people were taken to hospital after the plane came down in fog. The airport said the aircraft had hit ...

Qantas A380 engine blast 'severed cables'

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  • November 18, 2010
Further details have been released of the difficulties faced by the pilots of the Qantas A380 superjumbo that saw one of its engines explode. Airbus, the plane's manufacturer, has said that flying debris from the Rolls-Royce engine severed cables ...

Forty Rolls Royce Airbus A380 engines 'need replacing'

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  • November 18, 2010
Up to 40 Rolls-Royce engines on Airbus A380 superjumbos worldwide will need to be replaced, according to Australian airline Qantas. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce was speaking two weeks after a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on an A380 exploded i...

Rolls-Royce says one part caused Qantas A380 blow-out

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  • November 13, 2010
Rolls-Royce has said that a mid-air engine explosion during an A380 super-jumbo jet flight to Australia resulted from a single faulty component. Rolls said it was correcting the fault, which is specific to its Trent 900 engine model and is not an ...

Lesson in plane landing rescues in River Mersey

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  • November 8, 2010
Passengers have been rescued from a plane in the River Mersey as part of a training exercise for staff at Liverpool John Lennon Airport. The UK's first floating aircraft simulator, which has been specifically built for airport tests, was used in t...

Second Qantas jet in engine scare

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  • November 5, 2010
A Qantas airline jumbo jet has made an emergency landing in Singapore because of an engine problem. The Boeing 747-400 turned back shortly after take-off from Changi Airport, airline officials said. It comes a day after a Qantas Airbus A380 was fo...

Passenger plane crashes in Cuba

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  • November 5, 2010
A Cuban passenger plane has crashed in the centre of the country with 68 people on board. The aircraft, belonging to the state-run Aerocaribbean airline, was flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to the capital Havana when it went down,...

Qantas grounds A380s after Singapore emergency landing

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  • November 4, 2010
The Australian airline Qantas has grounded its six-strong fleet of Airbus A380 airliners after one of the superjumbos made an emergency landing. Qantas flight QF32 experienced engine trouble shortly after taking off from Singapore on its way to Sy...

'Several dead' in helicopter crash in Mourne Mountains

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  • October 24, 2010
A number of people are feared dead after a helicopter crash in the Mourne Mountains in County Down on Saturday afternoon. It is not known how many people were on board but local MLA Jim Wells said he believed that several had been killed. He added...

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