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AirlinesDELTA CUTS PASSENGER CAPACITY BY 20 PERCENT
ATLANTA, Delta Air Lines said it operated 82 percent of its normal daily schedule on Sunday. The airline invited passengers to minimise baggage if possible and arrive at airports at least two hours early.... more
AirlinesU.S. AIRLINES CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT TO HELP THEM
USA, U.S. airlines are pleading for government help to avoid facing bankruptcy after the terrorist attacks. Many of the major carriers could file for bankruptcy because of the high losses hitting them... more
AirlinesNEW CEO FOR AUSTRIAN AIRLINES
AUSTRIA, Austrian Airlines appointed a new management board that will take over formally from October 1, said Austrian Airlines Group's supervisory board. Vagn Sorensen, former SAS Deputy Chief Executive,... more
Civil aviationARMED SECURITY GUARDS ON FLIGHTS BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND USA
AUSTRALIA, Australia's department of Transport has ordered armed security guards to escort flights between Australia and Usa, as soon as they resume. The government has also announced that forks and steel... more
Civil aviationNORTHWEST AIRLINES EMPLOYEES BREACH SECURITY CHECKS AT PHOENIX AIRPORT
PHOENIX, Two employees for Northwest Airlines intentionally cleared the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport security checkpoints with a pocketknife and a corkscrew. A third worker, a pilot, passed... more
HelicoptersPAKISTAN TO BUY 16 COMBAT HELICOPTERS FROM RUSSIA
PAKISTAN, Pakistan has bought 16 military helicopters Mi-16 from Russia, said Pakistani ambassador Iftikhar Murshed said in an interview. The ambassador added Pakistan is to buy other russian weapons soon... more
AccidentsRUSSIAN PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING IN MOSCOW
MOSCOW, A Tupolev Tu-134 was forced to make an emergency landing at Moscow's Vnukovo airport due to an undercarriage failure. The plane was carrying 18 people and took off from Sovetsky. None was i... more
HelicoptersTWO SUPER PUMA 332 HELICOPTERS DELIVERED TO INDONESIA
INDONESIA, Two Super Puma 332 helicopters have been delivered to the indonesian airbase of Bogor. The two military helicopters, produced by PT Dirgantara Indonesia, have been declared operational by the... more
HelicoptersGKN TO SUPPLY HELICOPTERS TO DENMARK
USA, GKN is expected to announce soon a £250 million deal with danish government. GKN will supply Denmark with its EH101 helicopters. Other deals with Finland, Norway and Sweden to supply its NH90 model... more
AirlinesNORTHWEST AIRLINES RESUMES PARIS-DETROIT SERVICE
PARIS, Dutch Klm said Northwest Airlines, its partner for U.S. transatlantic flights, is to resume the service between Paris and Detroit today. The flight will take off from Paris's Charles de Gaulle... more
AirlinesMEXICAN AIRLINES REPORT HIGH LOSSES IN 1H
MEXICO CITY, The two major mexican carriers, Aeromexico and Mexicana airlines, registered losses for million dollars in the first of half of the year due to the economic slowdown. "The net loss at Mexicana... more
AirlinesANSETT CEASES OPERATIONS
NEW ZEALAND, Ansett ceased its operations grounding all its planes and leaving about thousands of passengers stranded. Qantas and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Blue will now pick over Ansett's assets. Ansett... more
AccidentsFLIGHT DATA AND VOICE COCKPIT RECORDER FROM PLANE CRASHED INTO PENTAGON FOUND
WASHINGTON, The flight data recorder and the voice cockpit recorder from the jetliner that hit a Pentagon's building were found this morning while combing blackened rubber. "The flight data and voice data... more
AccidentsFLIGHT DATA RECORDER FROM PENNSYLVANIA CRASH FOUND
SHANKSVILLE, The flight data recorder from United Airlines flight 93 crashed in western Pennsylvania. "We are hoping that it will have some information that is pertinent to what occurred in the plane prior... more
AirlinesAMERICAN AIRLINES TO RESUME FLIGHTS TO LONDON
LONDON, American Airlines resumed transatlantic flights today with a service from Chicago to London. Flight 86 arrived an hour and 13 minutes late at Heathrow. United Airlines plans to operate five flights... more
AccidentsJAPAN: TYPHOON DISRUPTS AIR TRAFFIC
TOKYO, The three major japanese airlines, All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines e Japan Air System, said that 129 flights have been cancelled because of high winds and rain caused by Typhoon Danas.All Nippon... more
AccidentsLIGHT PLANE CRASHES NEAR MOSCOW, KILLED THE PILOT
MOSCOW, A small training plane yesterday Gzhel M-101 crashed in Ramenskoye airfield outside Moscow. The plane was on a test flight. The pilot, a flight instructor, was killed. The second pilot ejected,... more
AccidentsHELICOPTER CRASH IN KAZAKHSTAN, THREE DEAD
KAZAKHSTAN, A Mi-8 military helicopter crashed in southern Kazakhstan, some 25 kilometers from the steppe town of Taraz, said Kazakh Defense Minister. Three people were killed. The helicopter was on a... more
AirlinesAMERICAN AIRLINES TO GIVE $25.000 TO FAMILIES OF PLANE VICTIMS
USA, American Airlines said it is to give the families of victims on its two plane crashed an initial sum of $25.000 to help them to meet the imediate needs. 110 people were on board the two crashe... more
AirlinesRYANAIR TO LAUNCH NEW LONDON-FORLI SERVICE
DUBLIN, Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is to launch a new service between London Stansted and Forli, Italy, from November 1. The airline will operate a Boeing 737-800 on the route and will offer special... more
AirlinesAUGSBURG AIRWAYS TO LAUNCH NEW SERVICE BETWEEN LONDON AND MUNICH
MUNICH, German Augsburg Airways will launch in October a new service between Munich and London City airport. The airline will operate a Dash 8-Q400 aircraft on the route. more
AccidentsLIGHT PLANE CRASHES IN MEXICO, 19 DEAD
MEXICO CITY, A light plane of the charter mexican company Aeroferinco yesterday crashed near the Mexican tourist resort of Chichen Itza in the southern Mexican state of Yucatan. All the 19 people on board,... more
Civil aviationFAA ORDERS NEW AND STRINGENT SAFETY MEASURES AT U.S. AIRPORTS
WASHINGTON, The new safety measures ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration include restricitions affecting curbside check-ins, the ban on knives in airport and a covert and overt increased presence... more
SecurityAFGHAN PILOT SAYS HE WAS FORCED BY TALIBAN TO TEACH 14 ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS HOW TO FLY A JUMBO
AFGHANISTAN, Rasul Birwaz, ex pilot for the afghan airline Ariana, told the newspaper Asharq Al Awsat that Taliban froced him to teach 14 Muslim extremists how to fly jumbo jets. According to the paper... more
AirlinesKLM CANCELS FLIGHTS TO USA AND CANADA
AMSTERDAM, Klm said it has cancelled all scheduled flights to Usa and Canada for today fearing long delays during the gradual and slow opening of U.S. air space. Klm added that there are about 1100 passengers... more
AirlinesLUFTHANSA TO RESUME FLIGHTS TO USA
FRANKFURT, Lufthansa said it is to resume flights to Usa today. Five planes will take off from Frankfurt to reach Denver, Washington, Newark, Philadelphia, Detroit. more
Science and technologyBOSTON AIRPORT: SECURITY REPORTED AS STANDARD AND NOT LOWER THAN OTHER US AIRPORTS
BOSTON, Two of the four hijacked planes took off from Boston Logan's airport, therefore it comes easy to wonder what went wrong at that airport. Actually, hundreds of investigators, in a "massive investigation",... more
PeopleISRAEL REOPENS ITS AIR SPACE
JERUSALEM, Isralei Transport Ministry said in a statement that the country's air space is to be gradually reopened. It was closed to all flights except for the ones operated by El Al after terrorist attacks... more
AccidentsBOMB THREAT AT FRANKFURT AIRPORT
FRANKFURT, One of Franfurt's airports was partly evacuated this morning after a suspect package was found in a waiting lounge. The area was reopened as soon as police verified that the package was not... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (13): UP TO 800 DEAD AFTER PENTAGON AIR CRASH
WASHINGTON, Officials for Pentagon said up to 800 people were killed when the hijacked plane crashed into a building of the US headquarters. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that, despite the... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (12): USA REOPENS AIR SPACE OVER PACIFIC COAST
WASHINGTON, United States reopened air space over the northern Pacific. This will permit the resumption of flights between Japan and Australia. The services between Japan and Usa will have to wait... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (11): SEVERAL COUNTRIES CANCEL FLIGHTS TO USA
NEW YORK, The temporary closure of U.S. air space forced many countries to cancel flights to United States or to divert them to other destinations. Among those nations Hong Kong, China, Taiwan. BA... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (10): SEVERAL AIRLINES TO RESUME FLIGHTS TODAY
NEW YORK, Several U.S. airlines would plan to resume scheduled flights later today, said Reuters agency. They are Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, America West, Alaska Airlines. Some flights would... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (9): MANY POLICEMEN AND FIREMEN MISSING
NEW YORK, USA, According the first news there are almost 300 firemen and about 100 policemen of whom there are no information available. They are considered missing, but is possible that more of them are... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (9): FIVE ARABS IDENTIFIED AS HIJACKERS
BOSTON, Five arabs have been identified as suspects, the Boston Herald reported this morning, saying that a car containing arabic flight manuals was seized at Logan airport. One of the five men was a trained... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (7): BUSH PROMISES REVENGE
WASHINGTON, USA, U.S. President George W. Bush, in his speech from White House, has used no indecision in his words: " We'll take revenge against every terrorist who have hit our country, and we will... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (6): FIRST VICTIMS NAMED
NEW YORK, Among the victims of the terrorist attacks hitting United States yesterday there are David Angell, creator and executive producer of Frasier, Edmund Glazer, an American company administrator,... more
AccidentsUS ATTACKS (5) SECRET SERVICES NOW MORE CONVINCED OF BIN LADEN IMPLICATIONS
WASHINGTON, USA, As announced yesterday in advance by WAPA, from FBI, NSA and secret services of USA and other world countries investigation, the series of attacks in New York and Washington set their... more
DefenseUS ATTACKS (4) AIR FORCE RESPONSE TO TERRORIST ATTACKS
WASHINGTON, USA, The U.S. Air Force is working around the clock to coordinate relief to victims of this morning's terrorist attacks. Secretary of the Air Force James Roche contacted the Federal Emergency Management... more
AccidentsUSA ATTACKS: DOD RELEASE FIRST DECLARATION FOR THE PENTAGON DAMAGES
WASHINGTON, USA, The Department of Defense is continuing to respond to the attack that occurred this morning at 9:38 a.m. EDT. There are no casualty figures currently available. Injured personnel were... more
DefenseRUSSIA AND USA OPEN NEW TALKS OVER THE SPACE SHIELD
MOSCOW, Russia and Usa opened a new round of talks in Moscow about missile defence shield and the future of a landmark 1972 arms treaty. First Deputy Chief of Staff Yuri Baluyevsky headed the Russian side... more
AirlinesEMIRATES OFFERS EXTRA FLIGHTS ON PARIS-DUBAI ROUTE
DUBAI, Emirates, in a press release, announced it will introduce more services on the Paris/Dubai route. Five weekly service will be offered from October 28, on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and... more
IndustryAEROASTRO AWARDED OF AN OVER 11 USDM CONTRACT
USA, AeroAstro Inc., Herndon, Va., is being awarded an $11,166,667 contract to provide for Space Test Program Satellite One acquisition to procure spacecraft design, build, integration and test. The work... more
AccidentsCONFIRMATION FORM NTSB: THE AALIYAH AIRCRAFT WAS OVERLOADED
USA, According to the National Transportation Safety Board investigation, the aircraft of the singer AAliyah, crashed some days ago in the Bahamas was overloaded. This is a not surprisingly thing, considering... more
Civil aviationFAA AD ON FOKKER F-27 AIRCRAFTS
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation... more
Latest newsIRAQ SAYS IT SHOOTS DOWN A U.S. SPY PLANE
BAGHDAD, Iraq said its anti-aircraft artillery shot down a U.S. reconnaisance plane near the city of Bassora this morning. "A second U.S. spy plane has been brought down by Iraqi air defenses in the south... more
Science and technologyFLIGHTS SUSPENDED AT NEWAR AIRPORT AFTER FIRE IN A BUILDING
NEWARK, A fire in the administration building yesterday caused the suspension of flights at Newark airport for 35 minutes. A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey explained that flights... more
AirlinesAIRLINE, PILOTS RATIFY CONTRACT
APPLETON, USA, "Air Wisconsin pilots ratified an agreement between the airline and the Air Line Pilots Association, the two sides announced Monday. More than 700 pilots voted 91.4 percent in favor of the... more
AirlinesCHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES AND EVA EXPRESS IN TALKS TO FORM ALLIANCE
CHINA, China Southern Airlines and EVA Air have begun talks to form an alliance, Taiwan Economic Daily said quoting China's chairman Yen Zhihqing. EVA Air would seek to invest in China Southern Airlines,... more
AirlinesFRONTIER AIRLINES NAMES SAM ADDOMS AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
DENVER, Frontier Airlines (Nasdaq: FRNT - news) announced the election of Sam Addoms as chairman of the airline's board of directors. With the appointment of Addoms, 61, as chairman, LaRae Orullian, who... more