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SecurityAmerican helicopter shot in Iraq, four troops died
Baghdad, Iraq - The attack delivered by Iraqi troops
According to declarations of the Arabic television Al Jazeera, an Us military helicopter would have been shot down this night from enemy fire. It is still not known what kind of aircraft was, but it's... more
SecurityTour operator is organizing free flights for the relatives victims of the crash between train and bus in Hungary
Hannover, Germany - News revailed by German authorities
German tour operator Maxim is organizing free flights for the relatives of the 33 victims of the crash between a train and a German coach in Hungary. News has been revealed this morning by German authorities,... more
Security"Iraqi Freedom": tomorrow the announcement of the end of the war
Washington, Usa - Today General Frank has announced to the White House the end of the hostilities
General Tommy Franks, Commander of the allied Forces, has communicated today to Us President G W Bush that the operations in Iraq are concluded and the hostilities are ended. Few minutes ago, White House... more
SecurityTalks among China, North Korea and Usa are interrupted
Beijing, China - Powell has denunciated threats by Pyongyang
The Us Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has declared few minutes ago that summit among the delegates of North Korea, China and United States, about the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula, has been... more
SecurityTreaty allowing 10 new Eu member states has been signed in Athens
Athens, Greece - Pm of Turkey, Rumania and Bulgaria have participated
Since this morning Estonia, Lettonia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus are in the European Union. Also to Pm Ministers of the other three countries candidates,... more
Security"Iraqi Freedom": Saddam statue in public square el Ferdous has collapsed marking the end of the regimen
Baghdad, Iraq - Crowd has flaked against the ruins
Marines has covered, for about two minutes, the face of the statue with a stars and strips flag, after they have replaced it with that Iraqi one and finally they have coupled the monument with a tank,... more
Security"Iraqi Freedom": Iraqi sources says 25 US soldiers captured while landing in helicopter
Baghdad, Iraq - They were trying to occupy a neighbourhood in the capital
According to Iraqi sources, that need obviously of a confirmation from part of the allied forces, a group of American soldiers, perhaps 25, would have been captured while trying to come down in helicopter... more
SecurityCatastrophe in Bolivia: 400 died for a collapse of a mine, helicopters cannot reach the zone
La Paz, Colombia - It's hoped in the forwarding of aircraft from some nations
Although the tragedy happened on Sunday the helicopters sent by the government of La Paz in the province of Chima were not able to reach what it seems a war territory than a mining village. Indeed the... more
SecurityBush: too much money to the air companies
Washington, Usa - It's taking form a step-back from White House
The White House spokesman Ari Fleischer has released few minutes ago a meaningful declaration much about the air transport field that sure will raise a lots of polemics. Indeed Bush administration judges... more
Security"Iraqi Freedom": a drone an Apache helicopter would have been pulled down
Baghdad, Iraq - No official declaration on the fact yet
The Arabian television Al Jazeera has shown today the images of an Apache attack helicopter and a Predator plane (an unmanned aircraft) that would have been destroyed by Iraqis. The American military... more
SecurityEsa's 'Zero-G' Airbus A-300 is starting to escape gravity's grip
Paris, France - Plane will take off from Bordeaux-Merignac
This 'Zero-G' Airbus A-300 parked in Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport is really a laboratory with wings. Within a week a dozen scientific teams will be aboard it as it thrusts skyward, then free-falls and in... more
SecurityUs frigate rescues crew of a Iraqi fishing boat
Persian Gulf - The Uss helicopter wasn't able to bring the aids
Thanks to the ready intervention of the American frigate Gary, making part of the naval group of the aircraft carriers Kitty Hawk stationed in the Persian Gulf, 8 Iraqi fishermen have been rescued in the... more
SecurityAmazing interview of Saddam Hussein to tv Cbs
Baghdad, Iraq - Iraq rais refuses any solution to avoid the war
To resolve Iraq crisis Saddam Hussein makes his proposal in front of tv Cbs. No to Al Samoud 2 missile destruction, no to the exile and a television face to face with the American President George Bush. In... more
SecurityRumsfeld says it's all ready for the war in Iraq
Washington, Usa - Only Bush's authorization lacks for the attack
It's all ready for the war, or at least this is Minister of US Defence Donald Rumsfeld's opinion. Yesterday, the head of Pentagon, in an interview to Pbs tv, said that "American and British forces now... more
SecurityBlair visits Rome
Rome, Italy - British Prime Minister and that Italian one talk about Iraq and UE
Today, British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is landed to Rome in order to meet Mr. Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister. The summit, scheduled in Villa Madama, was about Irak crisis, economic and institutional... more
SecurityMeeting Berlusconi-Blair (2): Italian Prime Minister proposes to democratize Iraq dictatorship
Rome, Italy - New idea to avoid Iraq conflict
Rising of a political opposition, concession of civil rights and elections within a year. These are the reforms that democracies want to ask to Saddam in order to avoid the war. That's what come out from... more
SecurityMeeting Berlusconi-Blair: Italian Prime Minister says the war is far away
Rome, Italy - Effort to persuade Saddam Hussein
Today, during the meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in Rome, Silvio Berlusconi said that "We are far from the war and we are far accepting it, but we have also the responsibility to defend... more
SecurityWill Iraqi conflict risk lead Pope to Moscow?
Rome, Italy - Also Patriarch Alessio II could allow the travel
International crisis could allows the first Pope’s visit in Russia. Until today, this hypothesis seemed unattainable, but that the Iraqi war risk has rendered feasibles it. The Russian President, Vladimir P... more
SecurityFound a plane disappeared in 1976 (2): the technical sheet of the aircraft
Rome, Italy - It has been the first English turboprop plane
On July 16, 1948, under demand of the British European Airways that needed of a 32-seats airplane, it flew the V-630 that would have been the prototype of the Viscount, that began to operate the first... more
SecurityFound a plane disappeared in 1976
Quito, Ecuador - A group of climbers has performed the gruesome finding
It has been found yesterday by a group of rock-climbers the aircraft of the Ecuadorian airline Saeta, disappeared on August 16, 1976, with on board 54 passengers and 5 crew members. It was told by the... more
SecurityAlbanian Prime Minister announces a new plan for the infrastructures of the country
Tirana, Albania - The plan regards also the air transportation
Added to several deliberations that preview many changes and involve basic areas for the survival itself of a country like as roads, bridges, schools, hospitals and universities, the Albanian Prime Minister,... more
SecurityGranted this night the singer Courtney Love
London, Great Britain - The artist will not be on trial
The singer Courtney Love has been granted this night after have been arrested (news already published yesterday by AVIONEWS, NdR) happened yesterday in the Londoner airport of Heathrow after a strong row... more
SecuritySelected two projects for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center
New York, Usa - They will be the highest buildings in the world
The bidding for the rebuilding of World Trade Center, so of the Twin Towers, is arrived to its final act. The commission created by the City of New York has choosen two projects, between which will be... more
SecurityArrested at Heathrow airport the singer Courtney Love
London Great Britain - The artist was boarded on the flight Los Angeles-London
The singer Courtney Love, widow of Kurt Cobain, former leader of the rock band Nirvana dead by suicide some years ago and by its time solo voice of the rock band Hole, has been arrested this morning in... more
SecurityIn Hamburg the september 11 relatives victims testify
Hamburg, Germany – A Moroccan has been accused to be a Kamikaze accomplice and the process has begun in October
Five American citizens, relative of the victims of the Al Qaeda attacks to the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, this morning have testified to the Hamburg process of Mounir el Motassedeq, the Moroccan citizen... more
SecurityArrested in Brazil a Vietnam redux
San Paolo, Brazil - He transported 8 kilograms of cocaine
Arrested at San Paolo airport, in Brazil, a man from California aged 53, Ruban Martinez, redux from Vietnam (he fought three years in the Asian country). Martinez transported 8 kilograms of cocaine that... more
Security"No to peace at every cost"
Vatican City, Vatican - This is the advertisement of the Holy See to Roman Catholic politicians
In a vademecum published by the Congregation of the doctrine, organ of the Holy See, is exposed an advertisement to Roman Catholic politicians. In the advertisement is said: "Peace is always the result... more
SecurityEgyptian president has invited Saddam Hussein in Egypt
Il Cairo, Egypt - The invitation has been programmed for Saturday
Trusting the Egyptian press agency Mena, it seems nearly certain in the daytime of Saturday a meeting between the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The meeting should... more
SecurityItalian volounteers for peace will leave to Iraq next January 28
Rome, Italy - The volounteers are decided to stop Anglo American bombings
In the field of the protest manifestations against war in Iraq, is taking its own shape a manifestation, that in short time will attract on itself the attention of the whole world's medias. The next January... more
SecurityUS spy unmanned aircraft to fight drug smugglings in South America (2): the technical features
Washington, Usa - It's in charge for the operations carried in Afghanistan
The unmanned Global Hawk aerial vehicle (UAV) is able to fly more at remarkable altitudes supplying to the military intelligence the most detailed information about the enemy resources. Once that the... more
SecurityUS spy unmanned aircraft to fight drug smugglings in South America
Washington, Usa - First test at the beginning of the next year
The attempt is to intercept the considerable drug loads that every day leave from the Latin America states and reach the Southern coasts of USA, from which then they invade all the American territory.... more
SecurityAEJPT: signed a contract for the training of the pilots
Stockholm, Sweden - Approved yesterday the Feasibility Eurotraining Study Contract
It has been signed yesterday, also by Saab, the Feasibility Study Contract, that will be directed by five associated societies (Aermacchi, Dassault, EADS-CASA from Spain, EADS Germany and Saab). The named... more
SecurityOutrage near seat of the staff of Russian aviation
Moscow, Russia - At least three deads verified up now
A violent outbreak this morning has occurred just outside Moscow, in Balashika a suburb few kilometers east of the Russia's capital, neighbor where the officials of the staff of Russian aviation reside.... more
SecurityReactions of Cuban government to the eight dissidents' escape
Havana, Cuba - "It has been a piracy act"
It has been requested by the Cuban government the restitution of the little yellow two-engine aircraft of Soviet engineering, normally used for pest ridding of tobacco plantations, used by the eight dissidents... more
SecurityEight Cubans escape in the USA
Washington, USA - The Carribbeans are landed with a small aircraft
During the daytime of yesterday eight Cubans are landed in Key West with a small aircraft. Probably the Cubans are arrived in the USA to ask political asylum, escaping from Castro's regime. Following... more
SecurityBali slaughter: ex- areonautical officer is the slaughter's "mind"
Bali, Indonesia - Head of a eight people command
Eight men, well trained, composed the command responsible of last Sunday terroristic attack in Bali, which provoked the death of 180 people. One of them, considered the "mind" of the criminal action confessed... more
SecurityChecen stopped at the Daghestan border
Baku, Azerbaijan- The man owned nuclear material
Russian agency Itar-Tass has reported, just few hours ago that a Checen man, coming from Azerbaijan, was trying to introduce in Russia, through the Daghestan border, a suitcase within nuclear material.... more
SecuritySix more months in prison for the insane who get in the plane armed
Washington, Usa - He will have to serve the rest of condemnation in Nepal
It wasn't good the defence appeal for mental problems: Subash Gurung, Nepalese, will have to serve in his country's prison six months more. For this he will be deported as soon as possible after 11 months... more
SecurityFrench authorities still investigating on plastic bomb found on board a RAM aircraft
Paris, France - The inquiry has been assigned to Paris Attorney's office
Paris Attorney's office was assigned the inquiry on the plastic bomb found yesterday on board a Royal Air Maroc aircraft coming from Marrakech. RAM's spokespersons denied this finding, which was confirmed... more
SecurityThree US Congressmen fly to Baghdad
Baghdad, Iraq - They reached the Iraqi capital on board a Jordanian flight
Three US Congressmen, David Bonior (D-Michigan), Michael Thompson (D-California) and Jill Dermott (D-Washington), flew to Baghdad on board a Jordanian plane. The visit of these three Democrat Congressmen... more
SecurityEast Timor to join United Nations
Dili, East Timor - UN General Assembly approves the admission of its 191st member state
The United Nations General Assembly approved today the admission of East Timor into the Organization. East Timor was granted independence from Indonesia last May after a 24-year civil war. The first... more
SecurityUs to restart drug plane interception programs
Washington, Usa - Program's control is supposed to pass from Cia to Us Department of State
Bush is willing to restart drug plane surveillance programs which were interrupted last year, when a Peruvian Air Force plane, acting on information from a US surveillance plane tracking drug courier flights,... more
SecurityOsprey flight resumed: excellent performances registered
Patuxent River, USA
The MV-22 Osprey took to the skies May 29 here for the first time after being grounded for over 17 months following the tragic Dec. 11, 2000 mishap. The first MV-22 test aircraft to resume flying has improvements... more
SecurityOsprey ready to fly again
Washington, USA - "All technical problems fixed"
"All technical and management problems with the V-22 Osprey aircraft project have been corrected and the hybrid helicopter-airplane is ready to resume flight testing, Navy Secretary Gordon England said... more
SecurityBell and Boeing pay for Osprey victims
Washington, USA
Bell and Boeing, the manufacturers of the V-22 Osprey have reached out-of-court settlements during the past few months with all but one of the families of the 23 Marines killed in 2000 while flying the... more
SecurityBritish couple forced to pay Indian Air Force for their son's rescue
London, Great Britain
It sounds incredible, but a British couple of Brightlingsea, Essex, Bill and Angie Kitchen, parents of a missing young man, their son, have been forced to pay to Indian Air Force £18,000 for a search... more
SecurityNew South African Denel's attack helicopter Rooivalk projects stolen
Pretoria, South Africa - 25 hard disk with projects stolen
Thieves who broke into the closely guarded Denel complex in Pretoria knew exactly what they wanted, as they have stolen only 25 computer hard disks containing information of the Rooivalk attack helicopter... more
SecurityVenezuela president Chavez sends away his family
Caracas, Venezuela
A military airplane has carried away, for an unknown destination, the wife and some son of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez, who has decided to send away them from the political crisis which is arise... more
SecuritySeptember 11th:one of suspects could be convicted to death
New York, Usa - Ashcroft decided
Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan extraction, is the only person charged with massacre for last September 11th terrorist attacks. At the end of the trial, which is supposed to begin next... more
SecurityStatement by John Murphey, chairman and CEO of Bell Helicopter
USA - "Project has been not canceled"
"I want to set the record straight with respect to the BA609 program. First, the program has not been cancelled. When the BA609 program was started in 1996, it was planned and scheduled to follow the... more