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MiscellaneousRome-Fiumicino airport: a suitcase "Done" with cocaine
Rome, Italy - A Bolivian man was arrested
A 40-year-old Bolivian man was arrested yesterday at Rome-Fiumicino airport because the Financial Police found out drugs in his luggage. Well, his suitcase was actually almost empty inside, but it weighted... more
MiscellaneousNight at the airport for 160 children waiting to fly
Rome, Italy - The kids of a refugee camp in Algeria have waited for 24 hours their flight at Fiumicino airport
The bad adventure has occurred to 160 children on a refugee camp Saharawi, in South Algeria, that after having spent two months in Italy, hosted by Italian families, Monday had to come back to Algeria.... more
MiscellaneousUsa: a comic fakes an air incident after the air crash in Kentucky, Nbc apologizes
Washington, Usa - It's happened Sunday evening at Emmy Awards ceremony
It’s surely been a lack of style. Especially because it was Nbc, it was Emmy Awards ceremony, and because 13,9 million people watched the show. And the excuses by American channel bosses are not enough: t... more
MiscellaneousUSAF planes fly toward the hurricane "Ernesto" to supervise it
Washington, Usa - The weathermen have launched the alert for Florida and South Carolina
The National Hurricane Center of Miami has announced that the hurricane "Ernesto" is going fastly toward the Gulf of Mexico and that it could hit two times the US coast, first in Florida and then -after... more
MiscellaneousHapag Lloyd plane lands in Linate for a technical fault
Milan, Italy - It has happened yesterday in the Lombardia terminal, no emergency procedure
Yesterday at about 9:10am a Boeing 737 aircraft of the air company Hapag Lloyd, departed from Pisa and directed to the Cologne airport (Germany), has landed in Linate airport because of a technical fault... more
MiscellaneousUS Airways flight forced to make an emergency landing for a bomb-alarm
Washington, Usa - It's happened yesterday after the finding of a threat note on board
Yesterday a plane of the US air company US Airways with 52 passengers and 3 crew members on board has made an emergency landing in Tennessee after that a note containing threats about a bomb was found... more
Miscellaneous18 years ago the tragedy of "Frecce Tricolori" in Ramstein: a monument commemorates them
Rimini, Italy - It's been inaugurated yesterday in front of civilians and militaries authorities at aviation museum of Sant'Aquilina
Sunday August 28 of 1988 during the "Airshow Flugtag ’88" in the US base of Ramstein (Germany), the acrobatic exhibition of "Frecce Tricolori", the Italian acrobatic team, turned into a tragedy that i... more
MiscellaneousBoulogne: 27-hour delay for an airplane
Boulogne, Italy - It happened to 55 passengers who were headed to Egypt
Because of an aircraft technical damage, a group of 55 travellers had to wait 27 hours at Boulogne’s "Guglielmo Marconi" Airport, before they could fly to Hurghada, Egypt. The fact involved an Air Memphis f... more
MiscellaneousThief arrested yesterday at Fiumicino airport by the security policemen
Rome, Italy - The Colombian has been stopped after a theft against a tourist woman
Yesterday afternoon at Rome-Fiumicino airport a 61-year-old Colombian man G.M.R., with precedents, has been arrested by the officials of airport Police after that he stole a bag to a Canadian tourist woman.... more
MiscellaneousAir France pilot refuses to take an expelled immigrant on board
Paris, France - Joining the protest of the "Reseau education sans frontieres" association
An Air France pilot refused to embark an immigrant, who was to be expelled to Mali, on Paris-Bamako flight yesterday. The "Reseau education sans frontieres" association, which is against clandestines expulsion... more
MiscellaneousPlane fallen in Ukraine: 86 victims identified
Kiev, Ukraine - The first funerals today
Until now 86 corpses have been identified among the 171 of the people that died in the tragic crash of the Tupolev 154 of Pulkovo Airlines, plunged in Ukraine on August 22 (see for details AVIONEWS). Today... more
MiscellaneousUSA: emergency landing for a UAL flight Boston-Chicago
Chicago, USA - For the presence of smoke in the cockpit
Emergency landing for a United Airlines airplane flying from Boston to Chicago yesterday with 64 people on board, whose 58 were passengers. The Captain of the aircraft, after having registered the presence... more
MiscellaneousEmergency landing for a BA flight London-Denver
Keflavik, Iceland - Because of smoke in the cabin
Emergency landing for a British Airways flight that left from London Saturday headed to Denver. The presence of smoke in the cabin, which seemed caused by an oven of the rear kitchen, forced the Captain... more
MiscellaneousEmergency landing in Olbia of an Air Vallée plane
Olbia, Italy - No consequences for the 31 passengers
Saturday morning the Olbia airport has been closed for an hour because of an emergency landing made by an aircraft of Air Vallèe that, departed at 10:10 am from Olbia air terminal and directed to Genoa,... more
MiscellaneousPlane stopped in Argentina for a bomb-alarm
Buenos Aires, Argentina - It's happened Friday on an aircraft by Copa Airlines
Friday evening a false bomb-alarm has happened in a plane of the Panama carrier Copa Airlines, departing from the international airport of Ezeiza and directed to Panama City. The Argentinean tv station... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon: telephone conversation between Prodi and Bush about UN contingent
Rome, Italy - Bush appreciates the role played by Italy
Last Thursday the President of United States George W. Bush has telephoned to the Italian Premier Romano Prodi to analize together the situation in Lebanon. The main point of the telephone conversation... more
MiscellaneousMalpensa airport: a 23-year-old boy was arrested with 100 ovules in his stomach
Milan, Italy - About 800 grams of drugs
A 23-year-old student from Tuscany was arrested yesterday being charged of drugs detention with passing off purposes. When the boy disembarked at Milan-Malpensa airport, the agents of Financial Police... more
MiscellaneousThe apologizes of Holland to India for the arrest of the 12 passengers of the flight landed in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Holland - The Dutch ambassador has expressed regret for what has happened
After the Indian Government saud he was upset for the incident that involved the 12 Indian passengers of Northwest Airlines flight arrested in Amsterdam ("It’s a fact that should have never happened," j... more
MiscellaneousIt's ended the alarm for New York-Ireland flight
Dublin, Ireland - No trace of the explosive a telephone call saud it was on board
After that all the 239 passengers of the Airbus A-330 of Aer Lingus landed at Shannon have been interrogated, the Irish Police has ascertained that there was no explosive on board. It’s been another f... more
MiscellaneousEmergency landing yesterday for an airBaltic flight in Latvia
Riga, Latvia - On board of the plane also the Foreign minister of Latvia Artis Pabriks
Press sources retail today the news about an emergency landing occurred yesterday to a plane of the Latvian air company airBaltic, that landed at Riga (Latvia), because of a "Slit appeared on the fore... more
MiscellaneousAlarm on a New York-Ireland flight
Dublin, Ireland - A telephone call this morning warned about a bomb on board, all the passengers have been interrogated
"There has been an security alarm on board of a flight of our company from New York to Shannon after that the Irish Police received a telephone call at 4:00am", has told a spokesman of the air company... more
MiscellaneousReleased the 12 passengers of the US flight returned to Amsterdam: it hasn't been terrorism
Amsterdam, Netherlands - The Dutch judges have ascertained that the 12 were not threatened the security of the flight
First there have been the Dutch minister of Justice Piet Hain Donnern’s statements, according which there were not "Elements that make think of a terroristic threaten in the plane returned to Schiphol", t... more
MiscellaneousBomb alert at Miami Airport
Miami, USA - For a suitcase containing soap, music player and cell
A suitcase containing soap, a portable music player and a cell terrified Miami airport yesterday morning. In the days following terrorist hand-made bombs alarms, even a harmless bar soap can paralyze an... more
MiscellaneousGaza: Israeli air raid, injured three Palestinian civilians
Gaza, Gaza Strip - Two different attacks this night has made 8 injured among the Palestinians
This night two different air raid by Israel on Gaza Strip has caused the wounding of 8 Palestinians, according to what retailed by some witnesses. The first air attack has taken place at the refugee camp... more
MiscellaneousUs plane returned to Amsterdam (2): it should leave to Mumbay today
Amsterdam, Netherlands - There won't be the 12 arrested people on board, held back in Holland for interrogatories
It should leave within today, destination Bombay (India), the DC-10 returned yesterday at Amsterdam-Schiphol airport from where it had took-off, after that 12 of the 149 passengers on board had kept behaviour... more
MiscellaneousUS air raid in Afghanistan kills 7 civilians
Kabul, Afghanistan - At the first light of the day the US aviation hit a building in Kunar province
Local sources retail that at the first light f today 7 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan following a bombing by US aviation in the Eastern province of Kunar, at the boundary with Pakistan, The... more
MiscellaneousGreece keeps burning, anti-fire planes in action
Athen, Greece - Since Monday a 4000-hectare-area on risk, thousand of tourists evacuated
It’s still not under controll the situation in greece, where a large fire is burning since Monday on the Polychrono zone, threatening thousand of hectares of forest. The flames, burned up along a 30-kilometers f... more
MiscellaneousAn Excel Airways B-747/300 lands with engine on fire
Sharm el Sheik, Egypt - No injured people
The flight XLA-2260 made by Excel Airways Boeing 747/300, which took off yesterday at Manchester headed to Sharm el Sheik, landed on the Egyptian airport with an engine on fire because of a short circuit.... more
MiscellaneousThe Dalai Lama visits Mongolia: China stops the flights
Beijing, China - The Chinese Government is contrary to the space given by Mongolia to the buddhist leader
The chief of Tibet Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, arrived yesterday evening at "Gengis Khan" airport of the Mongolia Capital Ulaanbaatar, with a flight coming from Japan, for an 8-days-visit of the Asian State.... more
MiscellaneousThird day of flights in Congo: Kinshasa's airport has been occupied
Kinshasa, Congo - The troops faithful to President Kabila guard the Capital's terminal, 13 diplomats evacuated
The tension is growing in Congo after the presidential elections that have taken place last July 30, the first democratic voting after 40 years in the African Country (see for details AVIONEWS). After... more