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HelicoptersSYDNEY OLYMPICS: AGUSTA SOLD A119 KOALA HELICOPTER FOR MEDICAL AND PASSENGER SERVICE
SYDNEY, Sydney Olympics have a new high-technology helicopter available to be used for particular passenger services and logistic operations: it is the first A119 Agusta helicopter sold to Australia,... more
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AccidentsA RUSSIAN AIR-DEFENCE MISSILE CRASHED NEAR LAUCH SITE
ASHULUK, RUSSIA, A Russian air-defence missile crashed near lauch site in the Ashuluk training grounds in the Astrakhan region, 800 miles south of Moscow, but fortunately, failed to explode at impact.... more
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AccidentsCHIRAC: "FULL COLLABORATION WITH ITALY ABOUT USTICA DISASTER"
PARIS, Jacques Chirac pledged full collaboration with italian justice in the inquiry about Ustica's disaster after the meeting italian premier Giuliano Amato. France always said no french plane was close... more
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PeopleANOTHER FLIGHT OF CONCORDE, WITHOUT PASSENGERS
PARIS, The French Civil Aviation Authority has granted a single permission for a ferry flight from JFK New York airport to Paris, to bring back a Concorde aircraft owned by Air France, left at open... more
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Science and technologyGIORGIO FOSSA: "SEA IS IN GOOD HEALTH, PRIVATIZATION AND A THIRD RUNWAY WERE SCHEDULED"
MILAN, Giorgio Fossa, Sea managing director has the future of the two airports of Linate and Malpensa very clear in his mind: There are no problems with European Union about Sea, it is in "good health"... more
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HelicoptersALGERIA, HELICOPTERS AND TANKS AGAINST FUNDAMENTALISTS
ALGIERS, Algeria is on the warpath against fundamentalists. The army launched strong attacks against terrorists, killing at least seven terrorists in the region of Ain Defla, 160 km west of Algiers and... more
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DefenseRUSSIAN PLANE LANDS AT BAGHDAD TO BRING MEDICINES AND A DELEGATION OF OIL EXPERTS
BAGHDAD, No fly zones seems not to block Iraq allied forces. A russian Yak-42 plane, carrying medicines and a group of oil experts, landed on sunday in Baghdad. Moscow government had in writing warned... more
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Science and technologyBRAZILIAN PHOTOGRAPHER SALGADO ILLUSTRATES LIFE AT LINATE AND MALPENSA AIRPORT
MILAN, A gramma kissing her niece goodbye, a child starring at the runway, a couple in the waiting room: these are the pictures the brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado used to illustrate Milan airports... more
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IndustryMAGELLAN AEROSPACE WINS AIRBUS CONTRACT
ONTARIO, Magellan Aeroispace Corporation, based in Mississauga, Ontario, has announced to have win the bid for a USD29m contract for production of acoustic nozzle assembly for the small Airbus A-318... more
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AirlinesNEW INDIAN AIRLINES
NEW DELHI, A new airline is entering the indian market: Royal Airways. Rex Lezard is the chief executive. Royal Airways will sidestep government restrictions on setting up new airlines taking on the... more
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DefenseWILL THE U.S. NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE ACCELERATE?
WASHINGTON, A senior US defence official said on Friday that testing for a proposed national missile defence (NMD) system must be accelerated if even a limited capability was to be deployed before... more
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PeopleFAA ORDERS TO HALT PRO AIR FLIGHTS
DETROIT, FAA ordered to halt all Pro Air flights because of serious aircraft safety problems. But at the same time, Pro Air, american airline, said it had appealed the FAA's action, saying the agency's... more
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DefenseEADS WILL DELIVER IRAQ 20 NEW PLANES
BAGHDAD, An EADS delegation will arrive to Baghdad at the end of September to negotiate a contract to supply Iraq 20 new planes. Iraqi government ordered last month the reopening of Saddam Hussein international... more
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AirlinesLUFTHANSA IS NEGOTIATING WITH EUROWINGS
MUNICH, Lufthansa, the german airline, is supposed to officially confirm today the dealing to purchase a minor share of Eurowing, the third german carrier after Lufthansa and Deutsche BA, owned by British... more
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AccidentsGERMAN MINSTER OF FEREIGN AFFAIRS' PLANE FORCED TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING
BERLINO, Luftwaffe's Airbus, belonging to german ministry of Defense, was forced to make an emergency landing for an avionics failure. No passenger was injured. The jetliner was carrying even the german... more
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PeopleENAC: EUROPEAN FLIGHT CREW LICENSES' WORKSHOP
ROME, Today in Rome at Sala Convegno Archivio Generale dello Stato, the 22 in Milan, Sala formazione Malpensa Milan's airport, the 25 in Reggio Calabria at Grand Hotel Excelsior, from 9 am to 17... more
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AerospaceSPACE SHUTTLE LANDED
CAPE KENNEDY, Atlantis touched down on the northwest-southeast runway at Kennedy Space Center right on time, at 3:56 a.m. EDT, after a 12-day mission, the 99th from the beginning, in which the crew, composed... more
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AccidentsCRASHED CUBAN PLANE: NINE SURVIVORS
NEW YORK, A running out of fuel or a uncorrect manoeuvre during the hijack. these could be the reasons of the cuban plane crashed into the sea off the cuban coast. Nine survivors and a dead body have been... more
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AccidentsHIJACKED CUBAN PLANE CRASHES INTO THE SEA
MIAMI, A hijacked plane carrying 14 people has crashed into the sea of Florida. The new was reported by Cnn. The sea aircraft, a russian made Antonov, was hijacked and therefore had only one and half hours'... more
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IndustryTHE BOEING AND AIRBUS BUSINESS IN THE LAST TEN YEARS
., In the following table, are indicated for every company, the number of ordered and delivered aircraft in the last ten years, according with their data: Year Airbus Boeing... more
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AirlinesCHAIRMAN BRUGGISSER: "SWISSAIR AIMS AT EXTEND IN EUROPE"
ZURICH, Swissair intention to extend could be the suitable ground to join forces with Alitalia, which is negotiating with the swiss airline and Air France. "Our strategy is to gain a european dimension... more
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DefenseJSF TAKES OFF
PALMDALE, The next-generation fighter aircraft, Boeing X-32, manufactured for JSF project, Joint Strike Fighter, took off on Monday for the first time from Palmdale, California from Edwards Air Force base.... more
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SecurityFROZEN BODY FALLS IN DUTCH GARDEN
HOLLAND, The frozen body of a 40 years old russian man trying to escape in the West hidding himself in the landing gear compartment of a KLM Moscow-Amsterdam cargo flight, fell in the garden of a dutch... more
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AerospaceANTI-ASTEROID IMPOSSIBLE MISSION: BLAIR GOVERNMENT DOSSIER GIVES THE ALARM
LONDON, A dossier released by Blair government proposes Great Britain as the leader of a european coalition to create a monitoring system and anti-asteroids space defense. The dossier will set an evaluation... more
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DefenseINDIA IS READY TO MANUFACTURE INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC.MISSILES
NEW DELHI, After several experiments India seems to be ready to manufacture intercontinental ballistic missiles. The father of indian atomic bomb, Abdul Kalam, reported this new. India experimented in... more
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AerospaceATLANTIS SPACE SHUTTLE PLANNED TO RETURN TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, Atlantis space shuttle is planned to return home tomorrow, after departing the international space station and it is on the way back home. Favourable weather forecast for Cape Canaveral would... more
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DefenseMOSCOW READY TO REDUCE MISSILES IF U.S. GIVES UP SPACE UMBRELLA
WASHINGTON, The russian minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Ivanov, talking at United Nations assembly, said that disarmament negotiations with Usa may carry on only if these one will wholly give up space... more
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PeopleTRUCKERS PROTEST AGAINST FUEL PRICE: NO RISK FOR AIR TRAFFIC
OSLO, Norwegian truckers are on the warpath to protest again fuel price. Eight refineries in the south of the country have been stopped for protest demonstrations and appeals have been launched to... more
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People18 YEARS OLD STUDENT IS THE FIRST FEMALE PILOT OF QATAR
DUBAI, Female emancipation is gaining ground even in midwest countries. Munira al-Dosari, a 18 years old student, was the first female of Qatar to get pilot's license for charters. That will be the first... more
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IndustryEUROCOPTER CHANGES ITS LEGAL FORM
MARIGNANE, FRANCE, In the special general meeting of the shareholders held yesterday,, the legal form of business of Eurocopter was changed from a Société Anonyme (SA) (Joint Stock Company) to a S... more
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IndustryENVIRONMENT AND TRANSPORT: OECD CONFERENCE WILL CARE OF AIR TRAFFIC
VIENNA, Sustainable development, ecology apllied to transport, new systems to prevent noise pollution: these are going to be the basic issues of the OECD conference about EST (Environmentally Sustainable... more
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SecuritySUDAN: GOVERNMENT ANTONOV BOMBED CATHOLIC MISSION, 6 INJURED
ROMA, A governative Antonov bombed a catholic mission in the south of the country, destroying the medical dispensary and seiously injurying 6 people. Among them a nurse and a child. The plane dropped... more
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AccidentsFLORENCE AIRPORT: LANDING GEAR FAILURE FOR AN AIR FRANCE PLANE
FLORENCE, The malfunction of one of the two landing gears forced an Air France plane to make an animated landing at Vespucci airport of Florence. The flight AF 1216 was coming from Charles de Gaulle aiport... more
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AccidentsFOUR KILLED IN ALASKA PLANE CRASH
ALASKA, A small plane has crashed while landing at the Nuiqsut airport on Alaska's North Slope, killing four of the 10 people aboard. The six survivors were taken by helicopter to hospitals in Barrow,... more
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AccidentsLUFTHANSA AIRBUS FORCED TO MAKE EMERGENCY LANDING IN PALERMO
PALERMO, An Airbus 321, flying from Malta to Frankfurt, was forced to make an emergency landing at Falcone-Borsellino aiport of Palermo for a failure. The pilot of the plane, carrying 119 passengers, asked... more
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AirlinesVARIG: RISE OF PROFITS AND 5 NEW BOEING
ROME, Varig, the brazilian airline, reached very good financial and technological results in the first half of the year. Passengers increased 11% in international routes and 5% in domestic flights. The... more
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AirlinesCONCORDE RECONVERSION: AIR FRANCE WILL SWITCH CREWS TO JETLINERS
PARIS, Concorde's transoceanic flights could be close to be stopped after the crash of July. Air France intends to switch most of pilots and co-pilots to jetliners. From december, at least a part of supersonic... more
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AirlinesAEROFLOT: DOCUMENTS BROUGHT TO SWITZERLAND
MOSCOW, The collaboration between russian and swiss judges and investigators about Aeroflot case is tight but unclear. The documents delivered by the delegation led by the swiss high-court public prosecutor... more
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AirlinesALITALIA CLOSE TO AGREEMENT WITH SWISSAIR
ROMA, Gossips are widespreading the imminent agreement between Alitalia and Swissair, rather than Air France. The italian airline didn't release an official statement about this forthcoming event, Alitalia's... more
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SecurityINTERNET TAXI AVAILABLE AT JFK AIRPORT
NEW YORK, A nex experimental service is available on 10 of the 12.187 yellow cabs in New York: a Palm VII computer has been installed in passenger corridoor to connect on internet during the run. Therefore... more
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AccidentsGORDON HURRICANE THREATENING A SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH RAMP
CAPE CANAVERAL, USA, Gordon, the hurricane that killed 19 people in Guetemala, showing its dangerousness, and then moved to Florida, gave trubles to Nasa, because of the Space Shuttle Discovery standing... more
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AirlinesLAUDA AIR PILOTS THREATEN TO GO ON STRIKE
ROME, Lauda Air pilots threatened to go on strike to demand the same economical treatment of Austrian Airlines pilots. This airline owns 36% of Lauda Air block of shares. Niki Lauda refused the proposal.... more
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AccidentsUAV PREDATOR CRASHES IN USA
NELLIS, NEVADA, A U.S. Air Force unmanned aereal vehicle (UAV) crashed into Nellis base during an exercise named Joint Expeditionary Forces. This aircraft is used to collect tactical data about enemy territory... more
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AccidentsSTRANGLED BY PASSENGERS AFTER FLYING INTO RAGE
SALT LAKE CITY, The case was dated August 11, but it was recently dismissed by Utah's judges for "self-defense". Jonathan Burton, 19 years old, died shortly after a Southwest Airlines aircraft landing.... more
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AccidentsSALOMON ISLANDS: AIRCRAFT HIJACKED BY ISATABU REBELS
BRISBANE, A group of rebels, belonging to the Isatabu Freedom Movement, fighting against Malaita rivals, reputed immigrants, hijacked a small plane forcing the pilot to fly to a guerrilla base. There were... more
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IndustryPIAGGIO: NEW BUSINESS CENTER IN USA AND FRANCE
GENOA, In the occasion of the annual NBAA convention, which will take place in New Orleans from October 10 to 12, Piaggio industry will officially announce the birth of Piaggio America, a necessary... more
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IndustrySECOND P-180 FOR FERRARI
GENOA, The selling contract for the second Piaggio P-180 "Avanti", with Ferrari's livery displayed on the tail, was signed a few days ago. So shortly after the victory in Monza, Ferrari decided to... more
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AerospaceATLANTIS DEPARTS SPACE STATION, RETURN TO EARTH EXPECTED EARLY WEDNESDAY
HOUSTON, After the fulfillment of the scheduled missions by the astronauts, Atlantis departed space station to return to earth early wednesday at Cape Canaveral. The stormy weather condition in Florida... more
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AccidentsAIRCRAFT CRASHES IN GERMANY, FOUR KILLED
LEIMEN, Four people, two men and two women, were killed after their aircraft crashed in a wood near Leimen, in the german land of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The small plane took off from Nurberg, in Bavaria,... more
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AccidentsSRI LANKA: HELICOPTER CRASH KILLS 15 PEOPLE
SRI LANKA, An helicopter crashed on saturday morning in the east of Sri Lanka, 40 miles east of Colombo. The Ports Minister MHMH Mohammed Ashraff was among the 15 victims. Police ruled out the possibility... more