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MiscellaneousBrazil: paedophilia and prostitution traffic foiled
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Among the 11 people arrested four were Italian
As it has been related by the Brazilian local press that 11 people, four of which were Italian, were arrested as involved in paedophilia and prostitution traffic, occured among Brazil, Italy, and Germany,... more
MiscellaneousJapan: another earthquake strikes Niigata region
Tokyo, Japan - Niigata airport traffic is closed at the moment
Another intense earthquake, of 6.1 intensity of the Richter scale, hit the Niigata region in the Northwest of Japan, today at 10.40 in the morning (local hour), 3.30am in Italy, after only five days from... more
MiscellaneousEnrico Mattei's death remembrance falls on today
Rome, Italy - The ENI powerful manager died on his airplane with pilot and a journalist. The "Seven sisters" shadow is still hanging over tragedy
On Saturday October 27, 1962, at 6:57pm and 10 seconds, the Linate Airport control tower lost contact with the little airplane of ENI, (Italian state oil board) - a "Morane Saulnier" - registered as I-Snap:... more
MiscellaneousThe plane crash over Queens caused by human error
New York, USA - Inquires have also found a steep sensitivity of the tail radar control system
Tragedy of the American Airlines flight 587 has been caused by a sharp manoeuvre of co-pilot, Sten Molin: airplane crashed over the Queens, New York, in November 12, 2001, a few seconds after take off... more
MiscellaneousIsrael: Knesset approves the withdrawal from Gaza after the recent increase of fighting
Tel Aviv, Israel - Premier Sharon hopes to start dismantling the colonies by the end of next Summer
Israeli premier, Ariel Sharon, welcomes the Knesset's vote which supports the withdrawal from Gaza Strip policy with the following dismantling of colonies. Israeli Parliament provided yesterday its own... more
MiscellaneousUnited Kingdom: a low flying helicopter caused presumably a victim
London, United Kingdom - Some witnesses claimed that the Chinook was around 30ft from ground
Heather Bell, 38 years old, died, in June 2003, after have been thrown from a horse after the animal was startled by an helicopter, precisely a Chinook. Squadron Leader, Philip Robinson, and Flight Lieutenant,... more
MiscellaneousCanadian war veterans arrived in Rome for the D-Day Dodgers 60th Anniversary
Rome, Italy - A meeting with Italian President Ciampi occurred yesterday to remind those who succeeded in facing the military difficulties started in Sicily
Several war veterans arrived in Italy from Canada yesterday, who were not only real protagonist during the military operation which dealt with the D-Day, the Normandy landing which enabled Europe in the... more
MiscellaneousA corpse has been found in the main undercarriage of an airplane in Detroit
Detroit, Usa - The post-mortem examination asserted hypoxia
A corpse has been found on Friday in the main undercarriage of a Boeing 737 of the American Airlines landed in Detroit airport coming from Miami. He was a black male in his early 20s, his personal details... more
MiscellaneousKhan Yunus: Israeli strike in order to support the troops on the ground
Khan Yunus, Gaza Strip - There would be about 17 dead and more than 70 persons injured among the Palestinians
New military operations by the Israeli Army's aerial and ground vehicles would have been performed at the Khan Yunus' refugee site, Gaza Strip, yesterday in the evening. The data provided by various sources... more
MiscellaneousJapan: military helicopter involved in the seism region's air rescue
Tokyo, Japan - It was the more intense earthquake registered since 1933
A strong earthquake struck the northern region of Niigata in Japan.The number of dead and injured is growing constantly, houses and public buildings have been destroyed. Japan military helicopters are... more
MiscellaneousArgument during Alitalia flight Milan-Cairo to smoke the last cigarette before Ramadan starts
Rome, Italy - This was the reason of the discussion between an Egyptian illegal immigrant and Alitalia crew
It has happened yesterday during the Alitalia flight departed from Milan to Cairo, on which was travelling an Egyptian illegal immigrant that was going to be repatriated as he was out of residence permit.... more
MiscellaneousSeized kilograms 10 of cocaine in Fiumicino airport
Rome, Italy - The value of the haul amounted to EUR 5 m
It has been arrested, on Saturday, for international drugs trafficking an Argentinian man coming from Buenos Aires to Fiumicino Airport. 10 kilograms of cocaine have been found inside his suitcase, carefully... more
MiscellaneousSeized kilograms 4 of cocaine in Malpensa airport
Milan, Italy - The trafficker is of Venezuelan origin
A Venezuelan man has been arrested, few days ago, in Malpensa airport as he was carring 4 kilograms of cocaine. The man, 29 years old, landed into plane coming from Caracas, was carring two suitcases where,... more
MiscellaneousTouristic aircraft disturbed Bush speech in Melbourne
Florida, Usa - The pilot has been detained and interrogated and he will probably lay charged
The American President, George W. Bush, has been disturbed, on Saturday, while he was delivering a speech in the Space Coast Stadium in Melbourne, Florida, from a touristic aircraft that seems to have... more
MiscellaneousSpain: Army's board will be reconstituted following the death of 62 troops due to the Yak-42 incident
Madrid, Spain - But not all are positive that charges are only on military compartment
The General Staff of Defence, General Felix Sanz, has been commissioned by the Spanish Minister of Defence, Josè Bono, to rearrange Army's board within the year, following the debate held in Parliament... more
MiscellaneousIsraeli military helicopters and drones in action in Khan Yunus
Khan Yunus, Gaza Strip - Attacks would have been performed yesterday and today at dawn killing and wounding several people
The Khan Yunus refugee site in the Gaza Strip would have been targeted by a joint attach by the Israeli Army's ground forces and aircraft today, among which there would have been helicopters and remote-controlled... more
MiscellaneousAir India: there are still some news about the deadliest which interested the flight 182 in 1985
Vancouver, Canada - A desire for revenge would have motivated the witness to accuse one of the blamed
It is what claimed the attorneys for Ripudaman Singh Malik: it was a desire for revenge to push the witness to accuse Malik for implication in the plot that destroyed Air India flight 182 in 1985, killing... more
MiscellaneousLa Maddalena. Soru: USA nuclear submersibles must go away from the archipelago
Olbia, Italy - The new President of the Sardinia Regional Council asserted he has a project aimed to the improvement of the navy base
Renato Soru, the new President of the Sardinia Regional Council, openly declared that he disappointed that there is still an American Navy detachment collocated in the Sardinia's North archipelago. Soru... more
MiscellaneousA helicopter searches Helmut Simon too
Vienna, Austria - He is the excursionist who found "Oetzi", the mummy dated from over 5300 years ago
From the late afternoon of last Friday, it not heared much of Helmut Simon, the German 67 excursionist knew all over the world due he found with his wife Erika, "Oetzi" the mummy dated from over 5300 years... more
MiscellaneousTwo major Hamas' members killed after Israeli aerial strike
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - It would deal with a political leader and one among the engineers who designed the Qassam rockets
Israeli Army hit Hamas heavily in Gaza City yesterday in the evening. Just after getting on their car in front of a Mosque in the city, two leading members of the Palestinian armed movement would have... more
MiscellaneousUS pilot dies in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan - He was flying in assistance mission aboard a Black Hawk
A UN spokesman in Kabul, reported that US pilot of a Black Hawk military helicopter wounded in the air incident occurred on Wednesday in Western Afghanistan, died: the American pilot was flying in assistance... more
MiscellaneousAfghanistan: four countries in turn would presumably be at head of Nato's mission "Isaf"
Brussels, Belgium - Turkey, Italy, United Kingdom, and Spain were signaled
Some Nato's sources seem to have signaled to the Atlantic alliance, based in Brussels, the four countries that would alternate at head of the six-month Nato'mission of stabilization in Afghanistan, on... more
Miscellaneous"Tokage": over 1000 flights cancelled
Tokyo, Japan - Victim's amount rises to 57
Tokage has been defined the most disastrous typhoon since 1991: it has been already caused 57 casualties because of landslips provoked by floods and big waves which have hit the coasts. Typhoon affected... more
MiscellaneousAirplane crashed in Missouri: passengers died are 13 in all
Washington, USA - The pilot and co-pilot died, too
The National Transportation Safety Board communicated victims of the plane crash occurred yesterday in Missouri, are 13 (see for details AVIONEWS), including pilot and co-pilot: the bodies of all casualties... more
MiscellaneousA bus bound for Baghdad Airport hit by militiamen
Baghdad, Iraq - Some 25 employees of the Iraqi capital air station would have been on board
A bus bound for Baghdad Airport would have been attacked by a group of not better identified armed men this morning. The commando would have surrounded the vehicle in a quarter of Iraqi capital suburbia,... more
MiscellaneousFemale child run over by a car: a Rega A-109 intervenes
Stabio, Switzerland - She would have suffered serious injuries after she was threw to the kerbside
This morning around 7:30am, in the Mendrisio area near Lugano, at Italy-Switzerland bound, an 11 years female child was run over by a Volkswagen Polo registered Ticino as she was trying to cross the street.... more
MiscellaneousPakistan: military air action aimed to hit Mahsud
Islamabad, Pakistan - It has been ordered to the local military to check for the refuse of the person who organized the Chinese kidnap
This morning the military force of Pakistan, were asked to make a mission of exploration of the presumably mountain areas where it is supposed to hide the person who organized the Chinese kidnap, Abdullah... more
Miscellaneous"Tokage": air transport paralyzed in Japan
Tokyo, Japan - Until now, flight cancelled are 650
Japan has been lashed by "Tokage" typhoon (see for details AVIONEWS): eleven casualties, eleven missing persons and a hundred injured is the current balance. Links are very difficult, due to 650 inner... more
MiscellaneousUSA's war planes hit Falluja: six died
Falluja, Iraq - According to local hospital sources, it would have dealt with a family devoid of relations with Al Zarqawi
US Air Force's fighter-bombers performed new bombing missions on the Iraqi city of Falluja today, destroying in particular two buildings. Local hospital sources would have stated they participated to the... more
MiscellaneousAustria: female child hurled out of a cableway. Intervened the assistance helicopter
Vienna, Austria - Kid dropped down in a parking area
Tragic event in Austria on Saturday, when a car of Gmunden cableway slid back 150 metre hitting the previous cable, on board of which there were a woman with her 3 years granddaughter. The knock, reason... more
MiscellaneousCondamned three policemen which killed a clandestine on board a Lufhtansa flight
Frankfurt, Germany - They gagged and blocked him to the seat and put on his head a helmet
Three German Police agents have been condemned because in 1999 shocked the public opinion by the news that they killed a South-Africa refugee while he was repatriating in Egypt by a Lufhtansa flight: Aamir... more
MiscellaneousIt is being enquired into engines of cargo plane crashed in Canada
Toronto, Canada - They had been changed last month for reason still unknown
The enquire that has to establish causes of the crash occurred last week in Canada, at Halifax Airport (see for details AVIONEWS), would have emerge that 2 of 4 engines of MK Airlines B-747 had been changed... more
MiscellaneousUSAF's fighter-bombers hit Falluja
Falluja, Iraq - Some targets were hit among which several weapon depots belonging to Al Zarqawi's followers, American military sources would state
US Air Force performed a new series of aerial strikes against several buildings of the Iraqi city of Falluja last night. The leaders of the military operations would have maintained that such bombing missions... more
MiscellaneousJapan: cancelled flights from and to Okinawa for "Tokage"
Tokyo, Japan - Winds until 144 km a hour and torrential rains
The new typhoon, called "Tokage" - that means lizard in Japanese language - is hitting the South archipelago of Okinawa by winds until 144 km a hour and torrential rains: the airlines have been forced... more
MiscellaneousTwo victims and an injured in the zone of Ivrea because of their passion for some air sports
Ivrea, Italy - An ultralight aircraft fall and provokes two victims; always yesterday a young woman fall with her paraglider but had only some injuries
There were nothing to do for Giuseppe Coimotto, pilot of the ultralight aircraft ,61 years old, and for his friend Valerio Giovannini, 47 years old, who fall yesterday with a powered glider which has just... more
MiscellaneousNew American strikes on Falluja
Falluja, Iraq - The purpose is to seize Al Zarqawi and put the rebellion warriors' activities to an end definitively
Military operations by the coalition forces and by the Iraqi national guard go on without stopping during recent days. Temporary Government of the Arab country proves more and more willing to seize Al... more
MiscellaneousIsraeli helicopter kills three Palestinians
Jabaliya, Gaza Strip - Two members of al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and a Hamas' militiaman
An Israeli helicopter fired a missile against a refugees site in Jabaliya this morning, in the Northern Gaza Strip and killed three Palestinians and seriously injured another one: the three persons died... more
MiscellaneousBranciforte is the head of the Italian marine's team: Council of Ministers decided it
Rome, Italy - The new Commander-in-Chief would substitute Quinto Gramellini
The propose came from the Defence Secretary, Antonio Martino, and it was approved by the Council of Ministers: it is a daily news, the Adm. Bruno Branciforte is the new Commander-in-chief of the Italian... more
MiscellaneousFalluja still subjected to US fire
Falluja, Iraq - New aerial attacks today aimed to hit the weapon depots, the refuges and the command centres of Al Zarqawi
The United States already announced it yesterday in the evening and the aerial and ground military activities went on without stopping in Falluja (see for details AVIONEWS). New strikes have been performed... more
MiscellaneousUSA: military operations in Falluja till terrorist remain in the city
Falluja, Iraq - The American military representatives would have stated it after the aerial strikes occurred yesterday
Since yesterday, a series of heavy aerial and ground attacks against several buildings in the Iraqi city of Falluja were performed by the coalition forces in the Arab country, together with the operations... more
MiscellaneousVirgin Atlantic plane diverted for bomb scare (2): as yet, no device has been found
London, United Kingdom - Passengers undergone police demands
Authorities are questioning all the passengers on board the Virgin Atlantic flight which this morning has been forced to landing at Stansted Aiport, due a telephone call warning about a device threat (see... more
MiscellaneousAmadeus is in sale
Paris, France - Air France, Iberia e Lufthansa main shareholders of the firm
It is a news from the French daily "Les Echos" that Air France, Iberia e Lufthansa decided to start the sale of Amadeus, that is a travel bookings firm, in which the three European State carriers are the... more
MiscellaneousItalian Navy: the fifth edition of the "Regional Seapower Symposium 2004" finished
Rome, Italy - Tomorrow in Venice at the presence of many authorities
"Tomorrow October 15, in the historical seat of the Venice's shiphard, to the presence of the Minister of the Defence, Antonio Martino, and of the Chief of General Staff of the Defence, Adm. Giampaolo... more
MiscellaneousIsrael: "We believed it was a missile but it could be it was not"
Tel Aviv, Israel - Israeli statements regarding the supposed missiles put on board an ambulance, but UN want formal apologies
Israel retracts but do not apologizes for the supposed (though not verified yet, at least when considering the way Israel would have treated such matter) evaluation mistake made some days ago, when the... more
MiscellaneousTurkish fundamentalist today in Tribunal: in 1998 planned to detonate an airplane
Ankara, Turkey - He wanted to restore the Muslim Caliphate in Turkey
It will be today before Tribunal, the Turkish fundamentalist, Metin Kaplan, which in 1998 would have arranged a plan to diverted a plane over the Ataturk mausoleum to Ankara and then detonate it. The militant,... more
MiscellaneousIsraeli helicopter hits Hamas' militiamen
Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip - One died and at least two persons were wounded at dawn this morning according to Palestinian hospital sources
Israeli tanks and combat helicopters started a massive attack nearby Beit Lahiya city at dawn this morning, in the northern area of the Gaza Strip, in order to face the activities performed by the Hamas'... more
MiscellaneousEurofly: bomb threat delays six hours the take off of a flight destined to Sharm
Bergamo, Italy - Accomplished controls, the plane left after midnight from Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport
An Eurofly flight bound for Egypt to Sharm El Sheikh-Marsa Alam, leaving from Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport, which would have had take off at 5:45pm yesterday, was stopped by an anonimous phone call: "There's... more
MiscellaneousItaly: on Friday Anpac pilots and Sea staff strike
Rome, Italy - Next Thursday it happens to Enav dependants
As it occurs every year, the Autumn is the strike season in Italy: respect the air field on Friday, October 15, there is the ANPAC (National Civil Aviation Pilot Association) pilots 24 hour walk-out; ever... more
MiscellaneousIndisposition to a French female passenger stops an Alitalia flight
Palermo, Italy - It is occurred yesterday immediately before taking off
An Alitalia plane leaving at 10:55am from the "Falcone e Borsellino" airport in Palermo, when it was already taxiing, immediately before taking off, it turned about because of an indisposition occurred... more
MiscellaneousColombia: condemned principals of a plane seizure occurred in 1999
Bogota, Colombia - Thirty-nine years prison for two National Liberation Army leaders
Yesterday the main leaders of the National Liberation Army (ELN) - the second left-wing movement of guerriglia in the country - have been convicted in absentia to thirty-nine years prison, because they... more