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AccidentsMalaysia accident: helicopters were "airworthy"
Second preliminary report released by the National Investigation Board
The two navy military helicopters that crashed in Malaysia at the end of April were "airworthy". This is what emerges from the second preliminary report on the plane crash published by the Investigation... more
AccidentsMexico: Agusta A-109S helicopter crashes
A senator and the neogovernator of the State of Puebla died -VIDEO
An Agusta A-109S Grand helicopter -registration XA-BON- crashed last Monday in Mexico in the Huejotzingo area killing the five people on board, including Martha Erika Alonso recently elected as governor... more
AccidentsAccident AW-169 Leicester: perhaps to cause it a tail rotor screw
It would be skipped because it was not loose, but the investigations continued -ATTACHMENT
According to the report of the Air Accident Investigation Board (AAIB), the accident of the helicopter Leonardo AW-169, where the president of Leicester Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha lost his life with 4 other... more
AccidentsLeicester: the club president's helicopter crashes
The AW-169 had taken off from the stadium. 5 dead
The AW-169 helicopter -registration G-VSKP- used by the chairman of Leicester crashed on Saturday just outside the "King Power Stadium", shortly after taking off. The aircraft -where the president Vichai... more
AccidentsSF-260D airplane crashes in Turkey
Two victims in the trainer accident
A SF-260D trainer aircraft of the Turkish Air Force crashed this morning with two people on board a few minutes after taking off from the Cigli-Izmir air base in the Smyrna district, central-west part... more
AccidentsAW-609 tilt-rotor aircraft (3): the names of the pilots -VIDEO of the performance of the crashed model
Vercelli, Italy - The burned out bodies recovered, unfortunately
Two victims of the crash that this morning has hit the skies in Vercelli, when an experimental tilt-rotor AgustaWestland AW-609 crashed seems after a violent explosion in flight. Two pilots on board,... more
AccidentsAircraft. AgustaWestland AW-609 tilt-rotor crashes: two victims
Vercelli, Italy - It made test flights
Currently there is certainty only of the fact that witnesses heard a strong roar, a kind of explosion, with consequent rubble fall, and that the victims are two, the occupants of the AW-609 tilt-rotor... more
AccidentsTiltrotor accident (2). Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland statement
Rome, Italy - The Company’s deepest sympathies are with the families and it is working with the authorities
Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland confirms the loss of one prototype AW-609 tiltrotor (airplane-helicopter) and the tragic loss of two pilots. The Company’s deepest sympathies are with the families. The i... more
AccidentsPilot of the Alenia aircraft which crashed on Saturday is in good conditions
Cuneo, Italy - Two inquiries have been opened
Alenia Aermacchi communicated that the pilot of the M-346 aircraft, registration code X617, which crashed on Saturday 11 May in Val Bormida, between the provinces of Cuneo and Savona, is in good conditions,... more
AccidentsSSJ-100: Alenia and Sukhoi confirm that the aircraft passed pre-flight check before take-off
Jakarta, Indonesia - "No serious technical problems have been ever reported"
Alenia and Sukhoi communicated that the SSJ-100 aircraft crashed yesterday, 09/05/2012, south of Jakarta during a demonstration flight (AVIONEWS) completed a full pre-flight check before take-off from... more
AccidentsFiumicino: crash between two planes on runway
Rome, Italy - Two Alitalia aircraft collided during towing operation before taking-iff, unhurt the passengers
Only a big fear and some damages to the wings for the two aircraft, but fortunately no-one have been injured on the crash of this morning in a runway of Fiumicino airport "Leonardo da Vinci" (Rome). As... more
AccidentsFinmeccanica: agreement between the Italian industry and Region Valle d'Aosta
Aosta, Italy - Yesterday it took place a meeting between the Region President, Luciano Caveri, and Guarguaglini
Yesterday it took place a meeting between the President and CEO of Finmeccanica, Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, and the President of Region Valle d’Aosta, Luciano Caveri. The goal of the meeting was the r... more
AccidentsFrance (2): Italian Defence undersecretary with delegation for sport activities, expressed his sorrow
Romorantin, France - The girl was an expert pilot with several hours of flight
Giulia Incisa della Rocchetta took out the pilot’s licence in 1999 at Biella-based Aeroclub Volovelistico. She started loving flight when was 15, and can boasts several hours of flights and many races b... more
AccidentsTourism aircraft forced to an emergency landing
Rome, Italy - No injured
Last March 15th a Gold Air Lear-Jet 45 was forced to an emergency landing at Leonardo Da Vinci’s airport in Rome. Few minutes after the take-off from Ciampino airport, always in Rome, an electric circuit b... more
AccidentsAIRBUS CRASHED IN NEW YORK (7): THE PASSENGERS LIST
NEW YORK, American Airlines flight 587: CREW Capt. Edward States, United States First Officer Sten Molin, United States Deborah Fontakis, United States Barbara Giannasca, United States Wilmer Gonzalez,... more
AccidentsLINA: LET REVISE PROJECTS OF SUPERSONIC JETS
FARNBOROUGH, The managing director of Finmeccanica, Alberto Lina, commenting Concorde crash from the Air Show of Farnborough 2000, asserted "it is the end of an era". Lina reminded that "there are coming... more