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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
Report15th anniversary of the plane crash occurred in Verona (Italy)
Verona, Italy - In which 49 people died
Today it is the 15th anniversary of the plane crash in Verona, in which 41 passengers and 8 crew members of the Banat Air Flight number BZ166 died. On 13 December 1995, an Antonov An-24 registered YR-AMR... more
ReportSarkozy's plane too big to land in India
Paris, France - For the travel were employed an Airbus A-330 and two Falcon 7Xs
Doubts and controversies in France about the expenses of Nicolas Sarkozy, who has recently returned from a trip to India with his wife Carla Bruni and some guests: according to rumors, the president's... more
ReportBombardier must pay 319,000 Dollars to a Pakistani-origin man for denying him pilot training
Toronto, Canada - The man was listed as a "Threat to aviation or national security'' by US authorities
Aviation giant Bombardier has been ordered to pay 319,000 Canadian Dollars to a Pakistani-origin man for denying him pilot training because he was listed as a "Threat to aviation or national security''... more
ReportItaly air transport: on Tuesday, chaos for flights from and to Sardinia
Cagliari, Italy - Due to air traffic controllers' strike
Possible chaos for air transport in Sardinia for the strike of air traffic controllers at the airport of Cagliari-Elmas, called by the federation "ATM-PP", "Air Traffic Management Professional Project",... more
ReportThe shadow of the Chechen on the bomb-alert about Aeroflot airplane in Berlin?
Berlin, Germany - The aircraft, parked in a special area of the Schoenefeld's airport, submitted to controls
This morning an anonymous fax sent to the Berlin media announced the presence of a bomb on an aircraft of the Russian airline Aeroflot, flight Su112, ready to take-off from Schoenefeld airport, in direction... more
ReportFound the "USA2" balloon disappeared in the course of 54th "Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett"
Vieste, Italy - On September 29th
This morning, during a fishing expedition, was found, about 12 miles off the coast of Vieste (Foggia), the balloon "USA2", disappeared during the 54th edition of the "Coupe Aeronautique Gordon Bennett"... more
ReportItaly/Russia intergovernmental summit in Sochi
Sochi, Russia - Among the agreements signed, one is about the entry, the stay and the exit of crew of Italian and Russian airlines
On Friday was held the seventh inter-governmental summit between Italy and Russia, which saw the participation of a delegation of Italian ministers, under Silvio Berlusconi, and Russian representatives... more
ReportSouth Korea will use airplanes to respond to any further attacks
Seoul, South Korea - From North Korea
Kim Kwan-Jin, the incoming Minister of Defense of South Korea, announced today during the confirmation hearing in Parliament that his Country will "Definitely use aircraft to attack North Korea", if it... more
ReportATSB: tomorrow media briefing on A-380 airplanes' engines
Sydney, Australia - Following the conclusion of the preliminary investigation
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau, ATSB, unveiled today, December 2nd, 2010, a press release announcing that tomorrow, December 3rd, starting from 10:30 am, will be held a media briefing to accompany... more
ReportWikileaks: Pakistani Prime Minister Gilani consented to the US drone attacks
Islamabad, Pakistan - On some tribal areas of the Country
According to the latest revelations disclosed in the cables published by Wikileaks, the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, although protested formally at the National Assembly, never really opposed... more
ReportUS/North Korea military exercises begun with frigates,boats and anti-submarine aircraft
Seoul, South Korea - Pyongyang: the region is on "Brink of war"
Increasingly tense, in recent hours, the situation between the two Koreas and their allies. As we announced (see AVIONEWS), on Sunday USA and South Korea begun the four-day joint military exercises in... more
ReportHijacking on a Tehran/Damascus airplane fails
Damascus, Syria - The Iranian who had attempted is disarmed and arrested
According to the Iranian news agency "FARS" and to other important international sources, on Friday, November 26, in an "Iran Air"'s airplane, departed from Tehran, Iran, and in preparation for landing... more
ReportAn Israeli man with a machine gun's magazine with unexploded bullets stopped at Rome-Fiumicino airport
Rome, Italy - It's the second terrorism alert in few hours in Rome
After the episode of the American man detained in the Rome-Fiumicino airport while trying to board on a plane direct to Washington, USA, with a knife in one of his shoes (see AVIONEWS), another terrorist... more
ReportTerrorism alert at Rome-Fiumicino airport
Rome, Italy - Stopped a man with a knife in one of his shoes, whom should have embarked on an airplane to the US
Yesterday at the airport of Rome-Fiumicino was stopped an American man, Peter S., whom was going to embark on a United Airlines' plane to Washington, United States, with a knife between the sole and heel... more
ReportKorean crisis: starting on Sunday the USA/South Korea military exercises with airplanes and boats
Washington, USA - "George Washington" aircraft carrier toward the Yellow Sea
During a telephone conversation, US President Barack Obama and the South-Korean President Lee Myung-Backs have established that, starting from Sunday, November 28, 2010, the two Countries will join in... more
ReportToday chaos for air routes to and from Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal - Due to general strike against the austerity measures
Today inconveniences are expected for travelers departing from or returning to Portugal. A general strike organized jointly by the Country's two largest labor unions, UGT and CGTP, against the austerity... more
ReportUS Congress doesn't object to the sale of weapons, helicopters and airplanes also, to Saudi Arabia
Washington, USA - It's the biggest contract of this kind signed by America ever
Green light to the more than 60 billion dollar contract for the sale of armaments by the United States to Saudi Arabia: it's ended on November 20th, the period of 30 days in which the US Congress could... more
ReportAfghan airlines in the European Commission's black-list
Brussels, Belgium - Because the Country can't ensure the safety of flight operations
On 5 November, the international press reported that a source inside the European Commission had notified its intention to ban all the airlines registered in Afghanistan from the airspace of the continent,... more
ReportQantas will make A-380 airplanes resume operations
Sydney, Australia - Gradually, starting from next week-end
On Tuesday, Qantas announced on its website that it wants to resume gradually the operations of its Airbus airplanes. Two of its six A-380s will re-enter service during the next weekend: on Saturday, November... more
ReportPyongyand attacks South Korea: from Seoul F-16 fighter airplanes on Yeonpyeong Island
Seoul, South Korea - Two dead and several wounded, including civilians
Today the international media report that North Korea this morning opened fire with heavy artillery from the Pyongyang island of North Korea against the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. Two South... more
ReportUSAF postpones to 2011 the decision about the winner of the bid for tanker airplanes KC-X
Washington, USA - Between Boeing and EADS. The worth of the agreement is 36 billion dollars
The analysts were right. The USAF, U.S. Air Force, also this time won't meet the deadline established for the announcement of who, between Boeing and EADS, will be awarded a contract valued 35 billion... more
ReportItalian minister of Defense La Russa: AMX airplanes in Afghanistan won't be armed
Lisbon, Portugal - It was unveiled in the NATO's summit in Lisbon
During the press-conference held at the end of the NATO's summit in Lisbon, Italy's minister of Defense, Ignazio La Russa, said that there is no need to arm the Italian jets "AMX" operating in the Afghan... more