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ReportRadar revamped in Santo Domingo airport
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - And also at the terminal of Puerto Plata
Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) director Jose Tomas Perez announced the modernization of its primary and secondary radar system of the Las Americas International Airport, and the primary air surveillance... more
ReportMedvedev dismissed anti-terrorism and transport officials at Moscow-Domodedovo Airport
Moscow, Russia - Caucasus Independent Islamists threaten further attacks
Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, said security checks at Moscow-Domodedovo International Airport on January 24 were "In a state of anarchy" and the people who were supposed to prevent external attacks... more
ReportPlanes and tanks in Gaza
Gaza, Palestine - Attacks from the sky and from ground
This morning some Israeli air force planes flew over the entire Palestinian territory, releasing some missiles in southern Gaza. Military have repeatedly invaded the Gaza Strip even with ground troops.... more
ReportPirates attack Italian petrol tanker in the Indian Ocean
Rome, Italy - Navy's frigate "Zeffiro" is joining it
It has recently been released the news of the attack to an Italian tanker, "Savina Caylin", by pirates in the Indian Ocean, off the Somali coasts. The five attackers would have launched against the... more
ReportHang-glider accident in Italy, a man lost his life under the eyes of his son
Massa Carrara, Italy - The victim was a police officer
Yesterday afternoon took place the hang-glider accident which claimed the live of Marco Vanni, 50, which has fallen to Fossone (Massa Carrara). The flight of the man, to which was broken a wing hitting... more
ReportCyclone "Yasi"-Emergency: Australian aircraft flew to North Queensland
Brisbane , Australia - Its zone is enlarging
"Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircraft including a mixture of C-17 Globemaster's ( heavy transport aircraft) and C-130 Hercules are on standby to fly north to cyclone-affected areas", said an ADF... more
ReportTen arrests for terrorist attack in Moscow-Domodedovo airport
Moscow, Russia - In which on January 24th 36 people were killed
According to the international press, Aleksander Bortnikov, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), on Thursday would have stated that about ten people able to provide information about details... more
ReportThe death toll of the terrorist attack on Moscow's Domodedovo Airport has risen to 36
Moscow, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired federal transportation security chief, Andrei Alekseyev.
The number of the victims of the terrorist attack on Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport has risen to 36, since one of the two people who were in a critical condition died, the spokesman for Russia’s Health Min... more
ReportFinancial police of Rome seized 35 kg of cocaine hidden in an airplane
Rome, Italy - By two men dressed as technician at Fiumicino airport
The provincial military command of financial police (GdF, Guardia di Finanza) of Rome seized 35 kg of cocaine at the airport of Fiumicino. Engaged in the routine check operations, the financiers noticed... more
ReportEgypt's crisis: C-130 airplane of AMI lands in Pratica di Mare
Rome, Italy - With 80 Italian passengers coming back from Cairo
Landed this morning at the airport of Pratica di Mare, 30 km south of Rome, the C-130 airplane of AMI, Italian Air Force, sent to Egypt to bring back home about eighty Italians, most of them tourists,... more
ReportAir transport in Italy: decrees on territorial continuity are "Illegitimate"
Rome, Italy - Mauro Pili, PDL, said it. Matteoli: "If the Government wants to investigate the issue, there's no impediment to it"
During a press conference held yesterday, January 31, 2011, in Cagliari, Mauro Pili of the PDL party said that "The decrees on territorial continuity are illegal because they are discriminatory, illogical,... more
ReportInternational flights to Bali deleted or redirected due to the ashes from Mount Bromo
Jakarta , Indonesia - Operational domestic flights, Jakarta Airport doesn’t close
Last Friday the airport was under monitoring but still open, also even if international flights to and from Bali had been cancelled or diverted the previous day, due to the ashes from Mount Bromo, the... more
ReportMany foreign governments are sending airplanes to Cairo to evacuate its citizens
Cairo, Egyipt - Following the riots in Egypt
Many foreign countries are trying to evacuate its citizens from Egypt, after the 7th day of riots against Hosni Mubarak: they are about to send (or have just sent) airplanes to take them out of the country... more
ReportAbout 70 Italian passengers remain 4 days at Cairo airport. And finally leave
Cairo, Egypt - Egypt Air had cancelled its flights due to the riots in the country
The "Odyssey" of 70 Italian passengers stopped for days at Cairo airport following the anti-Mubarak riots end positively: thanks to the intervention of foreign affairs minister, they have all been transferred... more
ReportSouth-west of Japan, air traffic disruptions due to eruptive activity of "Kirishima" volcano (VIDEO)
Miyazaky, Japan - ANA and JAL airlines cancel flights from and to Miyazaki
Restarted on January 26, 2011, at 7:30 am (local time) the eruptive activity of Shinmoedake, one of the mouths of the "Kirishima", a 1421 meter volcano in the island of Kyushu in the south-west of the... more
ReportMassacre in Moscow: start security plan. China on alert taking preventive measures ahead of Chinese New Year.
Moscow , Russia - Increases law enforcement in Russia. Sweep check also in the airport of Beijing where are expected 280.000 people per day.
Further updates on the massacre at the airport in Moscow-Domodedovo (see more on AVIONEWS 1 and 2), where more than 30 person are died and other 130 were injured, tell us that there are three wanted for... more
ReportItalian democratic party: "We do not accept the crisis of the new Alitalia"
Rome, Italy - This political area (left) is afraid for the unemployment rate in the area of Rome
Italian democratic party (labor or left) is worried about the reorganization structure of Alitalia. "The management of the airline -they assume- had to work for a real modernization of the carrier,... more
ReportITF about Moscow bombing
London, UK - Its statement by general secretary David Cockroft
Commenting on yesterday’s bomb attack, ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) general secretary David Cockroft said: “It is with deep pain, sorrow and indignation that we have heard the... more
ReportThis morning in Rome the funeral of Luca Sanna, alpine killed in Afghanistan
Rome, Italy - Absent Berlusconi, who at the last minute decided not to attend the ceremony
This morning in Rome, the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, was held the funeral of Corporal Luca Sanna, the Alpine killed last Tuesday in an outpost in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, by Noor Ali Gullab,... more
ReportEgyptAir cuts flights to Tunisia
Cairo, Egypt - Until political situation becomes stable
EgyptAir authorities announced that trips schedule to Tunisia will be modified until the current events in Tunisia subside and the country stabilises. For now, the company will schedule two flights a week... more
ReportAfghanistan, Italian soldier dies during a gunfight
Baghdad, Afghanistan - The other wounded is not in peril of life
This morning, during what has been defined as an "Abnormal" fight between Italian soldiers and a group of rebels in the outpost of Bala Murghab in Afghanistan, called "Hilander", where operates the eighth... more
ReportWikileaks: 24 airplanes of CIA have used a Turkish airbase to transport terrorists
Washington, USA - Between 2002 and 2006
As reported today by the German newspaper "Die Welt" on the basis of cables released by the pirate site Wikileaks, 24 planes of CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, have made use, between 2002 and 2006, the... more
ReportIllness for Air France's pilot: airplane lands in Reykjavik
Reykjavik, Iceland - The aircraft, took off from Paris, was directed towards New York with 232 people on board
The sudden illness of one of pilots has forced few hours ago an Air France's airplane to a "Precautionary" landing in Iceland, at the Reykjavik-Keflavik's airport. The aircraft was taken off from Paris... more
ReportSix Russian airlines ground Tu-154B airplanes
Moscow, Russia - After the fire and the explosion of a specimen occurred on January 1st
Six Russian airlines have grounded all the Tupolev Tu-154B airplanes in the fleet for precautionary reasons. The measure was decided after the incident occurred last January 1st, when an airplane of this... more
ReportBorgogni, hours at the prosecutor office: interrogation marked as secret
Rome, Italy - The collaborator closest to Guarguaglini presented himself voluntarily to the magistrates, that will interrogate him again
Lorenzo Borgogni, responsible for Institutional Relations of the company Finmeccanica and the closest of President Pierfrancesco Guarguaglini, last week-end had requested through his lawyers to have a... more
ReportHouse arrest for Giuseppe Spadaccini, owner of "Sorem"
L'Aquila, Italy - The disciplinary measure taken by the Court of Rieview of L'Aquila, which accepted the appeal made by his lawyers
It seems that starting from today, Giuseppe Spadaccini -who is, among other things, the entrepreneur owner of the "Sorem", the company that managed the fleet of the Canadair fire-fighting airplanes owned... more
ReportUS Court: 15 years prison for a man whom hijacked an airplane
New York, USA - In 1968
The American Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein said yesterday the sentence of 15 years' prison, which will serve Luis Arnaldo Pena Soltren, a US citizen of Cuban origin responsible, together with his accomplices,... more
ReportUS diplomats intervened several times to push to buy planes from Boeing
Washington, USA - And not from the rival Airbus. The new Wikileak's revelations
On Sunday, January 2, 2010, the "New York Times" (NYT) revealed the content of another cable unveiled by the web-site Wikileaks: on several occasions in recent years, American diplomats have spoken with... more
ReportDead Carlo Bernini, ex-president of MyAir airline
Rome, Italy - After months of coma
After several months in coma at the hospital of Treviso, died on January 1st, at the age of 74 years, Carlo Bernini. Born in Bondeno, close to Ferrara, in 1936, he began very young his political activity... more
ReportItalian SME's Chief expresses mourning to the family of the Corporal-Major Matteo Miotto
Rome, Italy - It was expressed immediately after the news of the attack
The Chief of Staff of the Army, General of the Armed Corps Giuseppe Valotto and all the Air Force express their deepest sorrow to the family of Corporal-Major Matteo Miotto, working in the 7th Alpini's... more
ReportItalian passengers at US airports, class action against Delta Airlines?
Rome, Italy - One of the travellers became spokesman for the protests and sent an e-mail to journalists
Yet not ended the controversies and disputes that, rightly, passengers and local authorities are carrying out against American airlines and airports, but also against Russian and English ones (see for... more
ReportPakistani helicopters kill at least 20 Talibans
Islamabad, Pakistan - The air raids took place this morning in the tribal areas of the Country
According to reports from the international press, today in the Kurram tribal district, on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, was carried out an air raid in which dozens of suspected Taliban... more
ReportTeenager refuses to switch off his phone on the airplane. A man punched him: arrested
Boise, Usa - The event on a Southwest flight from Las Vegas to Boise
A teenage boy refused to turn off his phone as a Southwest Airlines plane began its initial landing approach, but he didn't get in trouble. Instead, an elderly passenger sitting next to him is the one... more
ReportAir France will compensate the families of 4 of the 228 victims of the air crash occurred in 2009
Paris, France - During a Rio de Janeiro-Paris flight. Established it a Brazilian Court
As established on Tuesday by Judge Alberto Republicano de Macedo of the Court of Niteroi, a town not far from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the airline Air France will have to compensate for 540,000 Euros the... more
ReportSmolensk accident: Warsaw frightens to conduct parallel inquiry about Presidential airplane's crash
Warsaw, Poland - If the observations by Poland will not be reported on that Russian
"If our position will not be considered in the right manner into the final text, we prepare an our report", has been the firm declaration unveiled yesterday by Edmund Klich, the Polish delegate at the... more
ReportAir chaos in America, thousands of flights cancelled
New York, USA - For a snow storm. Bad weather also expected in Canada
After the strong inconveniences brought by the freeze to the air traffic throughout Europe, in these days a snow storm is creating serious problems in the transport sector, also along the US East Coast. North... more
ReportSouth Korea, ground military exercise by airplanes and helicopters
Seoul, South Korea - Pyongyang defined it "Provocative"
South Korea has begun this morning at 06:43 Italian time, with 43-minute delay, the air and land military exercise announced yesterday (see AVIONEWS). The maneuvers, lasting an hour, took place in the... more
ReportSouth Korea, at the start military exercises involving planes and helicopters
Seoul, South Korea - Not far from North Korea
After the Monday's military exercise on Yeonpyeong's Island, South Korea is preparing for other ground and sea military exercises, involving planes and helicopters. It was announced on Wednesday by the... more
ReportIsraeli F-16 airplanes attack the Gaza Strip
Tel Aviv, Israel - In reply to the launch of rockets from Gaza
Today, in response to the launch of rockets from Gaza to the south of Israel (according to a spokesman for the Israeli army, there would have been at least 14 attacks in the last two days), Israeli combat... more
ReportATV-3 space vehicle from Turin to Bremen in the belly of a "Beluga" airplane
Turin, Italy - In Turin the works on the first elements for ATV-4s and 5s are already begun
The third ICC (Integrated Cargo Carrier) module of the ATV vehicle (Automated Transfer Vehicle) developed for ESA and dedicated to the great Italian physicist, pioneer of the space sciences, Edoardo Amaldi... more
ReportWikileaks: Castro felt ill in an airplane with no doctor on board
Havana, Cuba - The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing
As revealed yesterday by the web-site Wikileaks, Cuban authorities would have hidden for four years, considering it as a State secret, that the worsening state of health of Fidel Castro followed an intestinal... more
ReportCrack of the airline My Air, criminal bankruptcy and accounting irregularities
Vicenza, Italy - Two arrested and 35 under investigation
Following the crash of low-cost carrier My Air, yesterday morning the Financial Police of Vicenza implemented ten precautionary measures issued by the pre-trial investigation judge and began searches... more
ReportUK Government: document on a new aviation policy
London, UK - To be released next Spring
British Minister of State for Transport Theresa Villiers said yesterday, during a conference on aviation held in London and called "New Direction for Aviation Policy", which the United Kingdom Government... more
Report"Twin Otter" Tara Air plane missing in Nepal, with 22 persons onboard
Katmandu, Nepal - It was operating on a domestic route to Katmandu
A small passenger plane carrying 22 people went missing shortly after taking off from an airport in eastern Nepal on Wednesday, the civil aviation authority said. Air traffic control said they lost... more
ReportContinental: appeal against the sentence of the French Court for the airplane crash
Pontoise, France - Occurred in 2000 at Paris "Charles de Gaulle" airport, in which 113 people died
Olivier Metzner, Continental Airlines advocate, on Monday announced that the airline has appealed the recent ruling against it by the French court of Pontoise. The intention to appeal against a ruling... more
ReportMatteoli: transport by airplanes will be regular on Friday in Italy
Rome, Italy - Alitalia CAI-AirOne strike postponed again
Again postponed to another date the strike of air carriers personnel scheduled on Friday, December 17, 2010. This was communicated in a statement on the Italian Transport and Infrastructures Minister Altero... more
ReportRussian army will digitize its communication systems
Moscow, Russia - Within 2012
The news agency "RIA Novosti" reported that General Nikolai Makarov, Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces, said that the Country's Army will digitize its communications systems by 2012. "It is... more
ReportDon King stopped at the Cleveland's Hopkins airport
Cleveland, USA - He had several bullets in his luggage
Don King, the well-known and almost octogenarian boxing promoter, was arrested Sunday night by agents of the "Transportation Safety Administration" agents at the "Hopkins International Airport" in Cleveland,... more
ReportMangusta helicopters and a Rockwell B-1 airplane in support of the Italians attacked in Afghanistan
Bala Murghab, Afghanistan - Nobody was hurt
On Tuesday, December 13, 2010, a convoy of Italian military was attacked in Afghanistan, with gunshots. The offensive took place during the "Arad Bazar", an operation carried out jointly by Afghan military... more
ReportGreece: on Wednesday all the airplanes will remain landed, and not only...
Athens, Greece - For a week of strikes
Other inconveniences in Greece for the anti-crisis measures of George Papandreou's government, on the reform of the labor market and cuts in salaries of public employees. Starting from today, Monday,... more