Accidents"Iraqi Freedom": F-15E jet fighter and its crew missing

Baghdad, Iraq - The fact happened on Sunday, near the city of Tikrit

Although the American F-15 "Eagle" crashed on Sunday near the city of Tikrit, the American commando gives the news only today, because of problems for the security of the two pilots. Indeed the two men... more

AccidentsDouble incident for the same charter company in the same day (2): the technical sheet of the plane

Rome, Italy - The Falcon 20G was largely used by Us Coast Guard

The prototype of Mystere 20 made its first flight on May 4, 1963 with two turbo-engines Pratt&Whitney JT1A-8, which are replaced by General Electric CF700 on current models; but as the years go by, thanks... more

AccidentsDouble incident for the same charter company in the same day

Ohio, Usa - Three deaths and two wounded

A Falcon 20 has crashed yesterday while approaching the airport of Toledo-Ohio causing the death of the three persons on board, and it's the second incident in the same day for the charter company owner... more

AirlinesQantas to axe 1400 jobs by the end of June 2003

Sydney, Australia - Sars and war the real troubles for any carrier

The hemorrhage of workplaces in the air transport field continues and according to some esteem more than 400,000 workplaces have been lost since September 11, 2001 just before the beginning of the war:... more

HelicoptersGoing against the mainstream: boom deliveries for Robinson

California, Usa - Orders uo 58%, 100 jobs more created

All sold out for the next 5 months. It is not the announcement of a hotel in some European capitals but the reality of Robinson Helicopter Company than literally is not able to satisfy all the demands.... more

AerospaceThule base could constitute an obstacle to the plan of the Us space shield

Nuuk, Greenland - Greenland Pm asks for a new Danish-American defense agreement

Thule base, to which the Usa give a decisive role for the creation of a space shield, is in the center of a contrast between Denmark and Greenland. For the base's concession, Groenlandese Pm, Hans Enoskens,... more

AerospaceAriane 5: in few hours the decisive launch

Kourou,French Guyana - Another failure would put in risk the future of the program

Everything is set for the launch, from the cosmodrome of Kourou, of Arianes 5 that will carry in orbit an Indian satellite for telecommunicationses and meteorology duties and one American to provide satellite... more

IndustryIt will be a subsidiary company of Avic I to supply the undercarriages for Airbus

Tolouse, France - Reduced costs are a fundamental part of any agreement

It is more and more tight the collaboration in the aeronautical industrial field between Airbus and the new emergent Asian realities, which can offer with a lower job cost than the European or American... more

AerospaceIss astronauts ready to repair the station

Cape Canaveral, Usa - A work that cannot be delayed anymore

Also in the silent and immovable space immensity the time deterioration is insinuated in the technological Iss (International Space Station) that needs therefore of periodic maintenance. This can be... more

Science and technology"Iraqi Freedom": Us Force gets the military airport of Baghdad (2)

Baghdad, Iraq - News has rendered note by Us Army sources

Us Army sources have declared that marines have get military airport Rashid of Baghdad. The battle for the airport, that is far 5 kilometers by the center of the Capital, was started this morning (as published... more

Government actsBrussels on 27-28 March 2003: Council of European Ministers of Transport meeting - Transport (5)

Rome, Italy - The "Galileo" programme

Galileo. - State of play on existing negotiations and contacts with third countries. - Agreement with China on the development of GNSS. "The Council was informed by Vice-President De Palacio on the... more

Government actsBrussels on 27-28 March 2003: Council of European Ministers of Transport meeting - Transport (4)

Rome, Italy - Safety of third countries aircraft using community airports

Safety of third countries aircraft using community airports. Public deliberation. "The Council reached a political agreement on the draft Directive on the safety of third countries aircraft using community... more

Government actsBrussels on 27-28 March 2003: Council of European Ministers of Transport meeting -Transport (3)

Rome, Italy - Unfair pricing practices

Unfair pricing practices. "The Council, on the basis of a report from the Presidency, held a policy debate on the proposal for a Regulation concerning protection against subsidisation and unfair pricing... more

Government actsBrussels on 27-28 March 2003: Council of European Ministers of Transport meeting - Transport (2)

Rome, Italy - External relations in the aviation sector

External relations in the aviation sector. "The Council took note of the presentations by Vice-President De Palacio of - the draft Council Decision authorising the Commission to open negotiations... more

Government actsBrussels on 27-28 March 2003: Council of European Ministers of Transport meeting - Transport

Rome, Italy -- Effects of the war in Iraq on the aviation sector

Brussels, March 27-28, 2003 2499th Council meeting - Transport, Telecommunications and Energy - Brussels, March 27-28 2003. Aviation - Effects of the war in Iraq on the aviation sector. "The Council... more

Accidents"Iraqi Freedom": rescued by Truman aircraft carrier two civil pilots in Mediterranean Sea

USS Harry Truman - They were bringing supplies to the American fleet

They have been rescued just after the midnight on Monday two civil pilots when their helicopter crashed in the east zone of Mediterranean Sea, where are in progress also the military maneuvers of the Anglo-American... more

DefenseNorth Korea is ready to increase its military arsenal

Pyongyang, North Korea - Announcement come by Army Commander

"North Korea will not have other choice that to expand own military force, as deterrent in order to avoid a war and to defend own sovereignty and the security of the Country", Kim Yong-Chun, Commander... more

HelicoptersJapanese Apache helicopters to mount T700-701C engines

Tokio, Japan - A reliability engine, an order of USD 50m

The Japan Defense Agency Jda has communicated officially that it will be GE Aircraft Engines (division of the General Electric) to supply the engines for the Japanese fleet of AH-64 Apache helicopters.... more

Press releaseThe Sas Group traffic figures in March 2003

Stockholm, Sweden - It transported a total of 2,6 million of passengers

"The Sas Group transported a total of 2,6 million passengers in March 2003 vs 2,8 million in 2002, a decrease of 6,0%. Total traffic (RPK) decreased by only 4,5%. Overall group passenger load factor... more

Defense"Iraqi Freedom": Bush and Blair talk about the Iraqi situation

Belfast, North Irland - No a foreign government, but a new role for UN

The long-awaited meeting in Belfast between the American president George Bush and the English Prime Minister Tony Blair has been concluded few minutes ago, whose speeches are going to mark, unavoidablly,... more

Helicopters"Iraqi Freedom": coalition's helicopters fly over the center of Baghdad

Baghdad, Iraq - Republican Guard headquarter has been the target

Iraqi Republican Guard headquarter, in the South-Eastern zone of Baghdad, has been flown this morning by two American Apache helicopters. Before Marines attacked a landing strip in the South-Eastern of... more

Science and technology"Iraqi Freedom ": Us forces has attacked Iraqi Air Force airport of Baghdad

Baghdad, Iraq - Airport is far 5 kilometers from the center

Iraqi Air Force airport Rashid, in Baghdad, this morning it has been the target of a marines action, that have begun the battle for the conquest of airport. Rashid is far 5 km from the center and it is... more

Accidents"Iraqi Freedom": an Us A-10 shot down (2): the technical sheet

Rome, Italy - The real nightmare of every tank

It has been built as a support aircraft during the war of Vietnam but before that the airplane entered in production Usaf was undecided if to aim at the A-10 or the YA-9. The choice has fallen on the first... more

Accidents"Iraqi Freedom": an Us A-10 shot down, rescue the pilot

Centcom, Qatar - It's not a case of friend fire but an Iraqi attack

It has been the center commando (Centocom) to confirm the news of the shooting down of an A-10 Thunderbolt tank destroyer on last night at Baghdad airport, (the former Saddam Hussein), which would be,... more

AirlinesSingapore Airlines to re-thinks about future orders

Singapore - The period is still too uncertain

It continues the dominoes effect (intercrossed) of the Sars and the war in Iraq, that have placed serious doubts on economic recovery in short terms and launch shadows of recession. Therefore Singapore... more

AccidentsUs plane crashes in Colombia during anti-drug operation

Bogota, Colombia - It's the third disaster in three months

An American pilot died yesterday, on Monday, on board of his airplane, a T-65 Air Tractor, while trying to destroy some coke plantations. Indeed the American Government is actively engaged with the Columbian... more

Press releaseAirbus fleet changes at Us Airways to boost airline's strenght new contracts

Tolouse, France - And of new order/delivery plan

"Following US Airways’ successful emergence from bankruptcy protection (March 31, 2003) and months of coordination between customer and manufacturer, Airbus has worked with the airline to complete a r... more

Latest news"Iraqi Freedom": Predator in action over Iraqi capital's skies (2): the technical sheet

Rome, Italy - It's able to fly up tp 24 hours

Technically, the Predator Rq-C1 is not only an aircraft but an entire system. This last one consists of: four unmanned aircraft (UAVs); one ground station of control; telecommunicationses via satellite... more

Science and technology"Sars Emergency ": Italian is in isolation in Rio de Janeiro's hospital

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - He has been transported to the nosocomion, after the landing in the Brazilian airport

An Italian who has accused respiratory problems and high fever, during an Air France flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro, has been hospitalized yesterday in isolation in Clementino Fraga University hospital,... more

DefenseAs soon as possible an Indian test for a long-range nuclear missile

New Delhi, India - According to the Government is part of a political vision

It continues without interruption India's arm-race that soon will be provided with a new formidable weapon, a long-range nuclear missile that, being able to hit very far targets, will surely raise the... more

Latest news"Iraqi Freedom": feelings from Us pilots who fight over Baghdad

USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk - The conditions for proper attacks become more difficult

The freeways over Baghdad, that is the air corridors for the American jet fighters, seem more congested local narrow lanes, where it is possible, becouse of a minimum mistake, to create a catastrophe.... more

Latest news"Iraqi Freedom": Predator in action over Iraqi capital's skies

Baghdad, Iraq - It could open up the way to the ground troop

To smooth the road to the advance of the Anglo-American troops within Baghdad it would have contributed also the Predator, the drone of the General Atomics, that since some time it is more and more present... more

Science and technologyFirst woman manager of a Nippon airport

Tokyo, Japan - She'll take over the activity at Fukuoka airport

There is always a first time, also in the Japanese society, very careful to not smash some taboo that even the secularization carried ahead by the technological outbreak after the Second World War seemed... more

Defense"Iraqi Freedom ": plant for the production of weapons of mass destruction has been discovered

Baghdad, Iraq - News communicated by Reuters

According to press agency Reuters, Americans experts of chemistries and biological weapons would have discovered an Iraqi plant for the storage of weapons of mass destruction. Plant is located in the... more

AirportsMedicine against the effects of nuclear devise explosion has been discovered

New York, Usa - The name is HE2100

Positive result for the first tests have to be confirmed, by experiments on wide scale, but if they will be replied and the drug is approved by Usa Food and Drug Administration, it could be available on... more

DefenseNorth Korea has threatened Usa, but after has opened the door to bilateral talks

Pyongyang, North Korea - Communist regimen said to not have a nuclear program

"Only a tremendous military forced deterrent, enough powerful to reject an attack supported by modern weapons, can remove a war and protect the Country's security. This is a lesson given by the war in... more

PeopleRussia and Afghanistan in talks about a cooperation in the air transportation

Moscow, Russia - Soony a resumption of the fights between the 2 countries

The Minister of the Afghani Civil Aviation Mirwais Sadeq has had, last week, important talks with his Russian peer, the Minister of Transport Sergei Frank, on the possibility of a cooperation in the field... more

Defense"Iraqi Freedom ": marines are inside two Saddam's palaces, but it is not the decisive battle

As Sayliya Camp, Qatar - This is Captain Thorp declaration

"This is a big demonstration of force, an operation whose scope is to send a strongly message to the regimen that we can go where we want, when we want", Captain Frank Thorp declared this morning from... more

Latest newsA Russian plane will land in Damascus in order to bring back the graduates to attacked in Iraq

Moscow, Russia - Announcement comes by the Ministry for the Emergencies

Alexander Yakovenko, Russian Secretary of Emergencies, has declared that, today, an airplane will take off from Moscow for Damascus, and it will bring back the graduates attacked while they tried to leave... more

HelicoptersThai Government cuts the purchase for 32 Black Hawks (2): the technical sheet

Rome, Italy - A versatile aircraft, also as air rescue

The UH-60 was realized by Sikorsky under explicit demand of the US Army for a multipurpose helicopter at the beginning of 70s, in order to replace the UH-1. The first one flew at the end of 1974 and... more

HelicoptersThai Government cuts the purchase for 32 Black Hawks

Bangkok, Thailandia - Financial problems would be the root reason

A war period doesn't mean automatically a good moment for the war industry too, that cannot reckon without the budget problems' host that several nations must face during a substantial negative economic... more

AccidentsAn Indian Mig-21 crashed on a dairy factory, hurting

New Delhi, India - More and more incidents involving Indian jets

An other Soviet-built Mig-21, serving with the Indian Air Force, has crashed this morning in the province of Haryana, north of India. The jet fighter would have hit a dairy plant, causing the wounding... more

Science and technology"Iraqi Freedom": a C-130 lands at Baghdad Airport, the first Us aircraft

Baghdad, Iraq - American control of the hub, but it's still being fighting hardly

Usually the first inaugural flights, in all the airports of the world, are celebrated in important way, even with some firework show and the brass band on the runways. A little different than what's... more

Weather forecastsAir shows and exhibitions in April 2003

CONKLIN & de DECKER FINANCIAL, ACCOUNTING, COST & TAX (FACT) SEMINAR FOR BUSINESS AVIATION…April 7-8, Atlanta, Ga. Info: (508) 255-5975; Web site: www.conklindd.com. IPEC 2003 CORPORATE MANAGEMENT S... more

Press releaseAvion Capital: a new financing tool for Airbus aircraft

Toulouse, France - The society has its operational base in Dublin, Ireland

"Airbus, CIT Group Inc., Crédit Agricole Indosuez (CAI) and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) announce the creation of Avion Capital Limited. This new joint venture company will provide, on a non-exclusive b... more

AccidentsAH-1W Super Cobra crashed killing 3 Marines

Centcom, Qatar - It was not hostile fire, Us command asks for an investigation

They have died the two Marines on board of AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter crashed on Saturday in a central zone of the Iraqi territory for causes still to be verified. Indeed, in order to make clear about... more

IndustryRaytheon awarded of a delivery contract

Usa

Raytheon Co., Bedford, Mass., is being awarded a sole source contract to deliver an initial Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) radar as the first radar in the BMDS family of radars. This effort is... more