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ReportAirplanes and conflicts. A car exploded at the entrance of Mogadishu airport
Mogadishu, Somalia - At least four dead in a terrorist attack probably made by al-Shabaab, an organization affiliated with al-Qaeda
A United Nations armoured vehicle convoy was hit by a terrorist attack close to the entrance of Mogadishu airport today December 3. The suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives against the cars.... more
ReportMalaysia Airlines airplane: victim’s mother sues Ukraine
Donetsk, Ukraine - Kiev is accused for failing to close its airspace after civil war burst out
The mother of a German woman killed in the airplane shot down in Donetsk’s sky on July 17 sued Ukraine in the European Court of Human Rights for negligence. Kiev is accused for failing to close its airspace t... more
ReportVolcanic eruption in Japan: dozens of airplane flights suppressed
Tokyo, Japan - Columns of ash coming out of the crater rose to 1 km
Dozens of flights were cancelled in the Japanese town of Kumamoto after the eruption of Mount Aso volcano, at 1000 km southwets of Tokyo on Kyushu island. The crater spewed out lava and debris, while columns... more
ReportAgustaWestland’s helicopters bribe: money was laundered through a Tunisian company
New Delhi, India - New Delhi Court held today the first hearing of the trial against the suspected kickback’s middlemen
The New Delhi’s tribunal following the case on alleged kickbacks paid by the Italian holding Finmeccanica for the supply of 12 AgustaWestland AW-101 helicopters examined today the first charges expressed b... more
ReportAirplane raids against Mitiga airport in Tripoli
Tripoli, Libya - Forces loyal to the government elected in June claimed responsible for the air strike
Mitiga airport, the second in importance in for Libya’s capital Tripoli, was hit by two airplane strikes between Monday 25 and Tuesday 25. General Khalifa Haftar’s forces claimed responsible for the act... more
ReportAgustaWestland’s helicopters bribe: New Delhi’s court sets hearing for November 28
New Delhi, India - Meanwhile the Government may lift its ban from foreign companies accused of corruption
The New Delhi’s tribunal following the case on alleged kickbacks paid by the Italian holding Finmeccanica for the supply of 12 AgustaWestland AW-101 helicopters, set a hearing for November 28 to examine t... more
ReportMalaysia Airlines airplane: recovery operations concluded
Donetsk, Ukraine - Investigation will go on in the Netherlands with the analysis of the aircraft wreckage
After one week of work, the Dutch mission in Ukraine finished on Sunday 24 the recovery operations of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing B-777/220 shot down in the Donetsk region last July 17. Pieces of the... more
ReportAgustaWestland’s helicopters bribe: Indian court sets first hearing for November 24
New Delhi, India - Prosecutors filed their charge for some of the indicted
A New Delhi’s court set for November 24 the first hearing on alleged Finmeccanica and AgustaWestland kickbacks to Indian officials for the delivery of 12 AW-101 VVIP transport helicopters. The Indian a... more
ReportMalaysian Airlines airplane shot-down in Ukraine: Dutch investigators recover first parts of the aircraft
Donetsk, Ukraine - Wreckage will be used to ascertain the causes of the crash
The Dutch Safety Board (DSB), L’Aja’s government agency responsible for transport accidents investigations, began recovery operations of some fragments from Malaysia Airlines B-777/220 shot down on Jul... more
ReportArmenian helicopter shot down: Russia tries to cool down Erevan and Baku
Moscow, Russia - Yesterday’s episode could revive the conflict between the two countries after a twenty-year old ceasefire
Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry urged Azerbaijan and Armenia to avoid steps which could escalate tensions at the border between the two countries. Moscow’s plea comes the day after an Armenian air force M... more
ReportMalaysian Airlines airplane shot-down in Ukraine. Dutch investigators: impossible to reach the crash site
Donetsk, Ukraine - Meanwhile in Beijing Australian Prime Minister puts pressure on Putin to unblock the situation
Dutch investigators’ team arrived in Donetsk region in Ukraine on November 11, but it cannot still begin the recovery of the wreckage of Malaysian Airplane shot down last July 17 (for details see AVIONEWS). T... more
ReportReport reveals civil airplane and Russian reconnaissance aircraft came close to collision
London, United Kingdom - A study published yesterday lists several potentially dangerous episodes happened in the last months
A SAS airline B-737 airplane on flight from Copenhagen to Rome with 132 Passengers on board came close to collision with a Russian reconnaissance aircraft that was flying with its transponder off. It might... more
ReportMalaysia Airline airplane shot down in Ukraine: Netherlands commemorate the victims
Amsterdam, Netherlands - The ceasefire is at risk: investigations and the recovery of bodies are getting more difficult
Amsterdam remembered today the victims of the airplane disaster that happened in Ukraine on July 17 in Ukraine. Around 1600 people went to the “Amsterdam Rai Arena” where, together with the king, the que... more
ReportUnmanned airplanes. Three youth arrested close to a French nuclear plant
Paris, France - But the episode does not appear to have any link to the recent mystery drone flights
Three people have been arrested on Wednesday November 5 in France for “voluntarily flying an aircraft over a forbidden area”. Two men aged 24 and 31 and a woman aged 21 were found with two unmanned air... more
ReportMalaysia’s airplane shot down in Ukraine: Dutch investigators will reconstruct part of the aircraft
The Hague, Netherlands - Wreckage should be recovered in the next days and sent to the Netherlands
The Dutch Safety Board (DSB), a Netherlands government agency investigating over transportation accidents, announced yesterday November 6 that in a few days it will be possible to start the wreckage recovery... more
ReportFraud on presidential helicopters: three ex-marines charged in the USA
Columbia, USA - They are suspected of rigging a maintenance tender
Three ex-marines have been accused in South Carolina of fraud in the tender for a maintenance contract regarding the “Marine Helicopters Squadron One”, the helicopter fleet that transports the president and... more
ReportUnmanned airplanes. Drones over French nuclear plants: hypothesis to solve the mystery
Paris, France - From terrorist attack to safety tests, here are the possible solutions
Who was piloting the drones flying over French nuclear plants? As reported by AVIONEWS, several Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been detected over reactors all over France since the beginning of October.... more
ReportVnukovo airplane accident: official charges pressed against all the arrested employees
Moscow, Russia - Now there are five people accused of violation of safety regulations
Russian investigators pressed official charges against four Vnukovo airport employees for the October 24 accident. Three crew members of a Falcon 50 airplane died together with the only occupant of the... more
ReportUnmanned airplanes. Unidentified drones fly over French nuclear plants
Paris, France - Aircraft of different sizes flew over plants and research centres during the month of October
Unmanned airplanes (UAV) have been detected over several French nuclear plants in October. Electricité de France (EdF), French largest producer of electricity, filed a complaint about drones flying over... more
ReportAlleged Finmeccanica kickbacks: former Minister’s defence
Milan, Italy - The former minister rejects Milan prosecutors’ accusations
As reported by AVIONEWS, Milan district attorney's office transmitted the Court of Ministers a file carrying an accusation against Giulio Tremonti, for alleged kickbacks received by Finmeccanica when he... more
ReportAirplanes and history. Aluminium fragment could help solving Amelia Earhart’s disappearance mystery
Washington, USA - Investigators claims it belongs to the 1937 aviator’s airplane
Seventy seven years after the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the American pioneer pilot who passed into the annals of aviation history in the 20’s and 30’s, new evidence reopens a still unresolved cas... more
ReportAirplane and justice. Air traffic controller trainee charged for Vnukovo accident
Moscow, Russia - Svetlana Krivsun can be sentenced up to seven years of jail for violating aricraft safety rules
Investigators in the Vnukovo airplane crash pressed official charges against Svetlana Krivsun, the trainee who was in control tower the night of October 24, when a Falcon X business jet collided with a... more
ReportAirplanes and industry. Finmeccanica accused of kickbacks to former Italian Minister
Milan, Italy - The bribe would have been paid for the acquisition Drs Technologies in 2008
According to Milan district attorney's office, Finmeccanica bribed Giulio Tremonti in 2008, when he was minister of Economy of Italy, to get the approval for the purchase of the American defense contractor... more
ReportDonetsk airplane disaster: Dutch prosecutor to request information to Moscow
Amsterdam, Netherlands - The ground-to-air missile trail is still the more likely, but the magistrate is open to consider the hypothesis of another plane
“Based on the information available, a shooting-down by a ground-to-air missile is the most likely scenario, but we aren’t closing our eyes to the possibility that it could have happened differently”. Dutch... more
ReportAirplanes and justice. Former Boeing employee sentenced for corruption
Saint Louis, USA - The man provided subcontractors with non-public information about other competitors’ bids
Deon Anderson, a former Boeing procurement officer, was sentenced to 20 months of prison for corruption in the United States. Between November 2009 and April 2013, the man revealed non-public information... more
ReportVnukovo airplane accident: court decrees precautionary measures for three airport employees
Moscow, Russia - Provisions hit control tower operators and runway service supervisor
On Friday, 24 October a Moscow tribunal disposed precautionary measures for two people in service in the control tower and for the airfield service responsible at Vnukovo airport at the moment of the accident... more
ReportTransport strike in Italy: Vueling airplanes grounded at Italian airports
Rome, Italy - Chaos in Fiumicino: passengers had not been informed of the cancellations
Great inconveniences today, Friday October 24, in many Italian airports, after Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling employees decided to participate at the strike proclaimed by the union USB. In Fiumicino,... more
ReportAirplanes and health. False Ebola alarm: a man dies without medical assistance in Madrid airport
Madrid, Spain - Airport health authorities were waiting for a team specialized in infectious diseases emergencies
A man remained unconscious on the floor for 50 minutes, waiting for help, before dying at Madrid airport. Medical and paramedic staff did not intervene, thinking he was infected by Ebola. Only when it... more
ReportVnukovo airplane accident (2): Falcon 50 pilots noticed the snowplough on the runway 14 seconds before take-off
Moscow, Russia - The airplane was running at 250 km/h when it collided with the vehicle
Investigations go on in Moscow over Vnukovo airport disaster, in which Total CEO Christophe de Margerie died (for details see AVIONEWS). New details emerged today, October 23. The runway was free when... more
ReportVnukovo airplane accident: four airport employees detained
Moscow, Russia - Meanwhile the airport CEO and his deputy resigned
New detentions in Russia in regard to the Vnukovo airport disaster (for details see AVIONEWS). After the snowplough driver, investigators arrested four more employees: chief engineer of the airport’s s... more
ReportMalaysian Airlines airplane disaster: Moscow complains about poor investigation during UN assembly
New York, USA - But Russia itself has been often accused to of hampering the investigators’ work
“The investigation into the crash of MH-17 flight of the Malaysia Airline in fact reached its dead-end”. Alexey Zaitsev, First Secretary for Russia’s permanent envoy to the UN, said these words during a ses... more
ReportAirplanes and safety. Three American teenagers run away from home to join Isis. Intercepted in Frankfurt airport
Frankfurt, Germany - Investigators discovered their plane by analyzing their computers
Three young American citizens have been held in Frankfurt airport after running away from their houses in Denver, Colorado. German authorities put them on an airplane back to the United States, where the... more
ReportAirplanes and safety. Ebola: airplane cabin cleaners on strike in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, USA - The workers ask for appropriate safety measures and training
Two weeks after the strike at New York “Fiorello La Guardia” (for details see AVIONEWS), airplane cabin cleaners protested yesterday at Philadelphia International Airport. One of the demonstrators sta... more
ReportFrench flight controllers lose contact with Belgian airplane: the pilot was asleep
Brussels, Belgium - It happened on June 28, but the news was spread now, at the end of the investigation
Last June 28 an Airbus A-319 airplane operated by Brussels Airline lost control with air traffic controllers while it was flying over Nantes, in France. It was reached by a Rafale fighter, which escorted... more
ReportVnukovo airplane disaster: investigators accuse the airport management
Moscow, Russia - French experts landed in Moscow to decipher pilots’ communications
As reported yesterday by AVIONEWS, the Russian Federation Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) opened a criminal probe on the accident happened few minutes before midnight on October 20 at Vnukovo airport,... more
ReportMalaysian airplane shot down in Ukraine: Russian Defence expert accuses directly the Ukrainian Army
Moscow, Russia - Pro-Russia separatists are not able to operate Buk air defence missile system, said the man during a TV interview
Western secret services know the truth, but they keep on concealing it. This is, in synthesis, the content of the interview done by Igor Korotchenko, Russian defence expert, in an interview with "Rossiya... more
ReportMoscow airplane accident (2): authorities start in-depth probe
Moscow, Russia - Investigators want to assess direct and indirect responsibilities behind the accident that caused the death of Total CEO
Russian investigators seized all video and audio recordings from the crash scene of the Falcon airplane on which Total CEO Christophe de Margerie was flying (for details see AVIONEWS). The French manager... more
ReportRussian representative: German intelligence report releases Moscow from any responsibility on the Malysian airplane shoot-down
Moscow, Russia - Alexey Pushkov says Ukraine manipulated the photos because it fears truth
Russian response on German secret services’ conclusions about the Malaysian Airlines crashed over Donetsk sky came soon. As reported by AVIONEWS, the president of the German intelligence Gerhard Schindler s... more
ReportGerman secret services: pro-Russian rebels shot down the Malaysian Airlines airplane
Berlin, Germany - Berlin intelligence deny the presence of a Ukraine fighter plane flying close the Malaysian Boeing
German secret services (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) have no doubts: the Malayisian Airlines airplane crashed in Ukraine on July 17 was hot down by pro-Russian separatists. Rebels captured a BUK air defence... more
ReportMalaysian airplane crashed in Ukraine: passengers’ personal belongings taken to Kharkiv for further investigation
Kiev, Ukraine - Dutch experts reached the Ukrainian town to resume investigation
Search for the bodies of the victims of July 17 airplane crash go on. On that day, a Malaysian Airlines Boeing-777/220 was shot down while flying over Donetsk, in Ukraine. The Kharkiv region administration’s p... more
ReportMalaysia airplane shot down in Ukraine. Netherlands minister: a passenger was wearing the oxygen mask
Amsterdam, Netherlands - But the public prosecutor calls for prudence in drawing conclusions
Several experts questioned about B-777/200 airplane operated by Malaysia Airlines, disintegrated while flying over Donetsk in Ukraine last July 17, said that the plane would have been destroyed too quickly... more
Report13th anniversary of “Linate Airport Disaster”: Italian ENAC releases the Charter of airplane accident victims
Milan, Italy - The result is due to the commitment of the victims’ relatives committee
Thirteen years ago, on October 8, 2001 at 6:12am and 37 seconds, the Linate airport control tower received a call from the Alitalia flight AZ2023 pilot: “We are at Alfa 15, we heard three bangs in sequence b... more
ReportFirst Ebola patient diagnosed in the US was flying on an airplane from Liberia
Dallas, USA - There are likely no threats for the other passengers, but contamination was possible in the days following the man’s arrival
The first man diagnosed with Ebola in the USA landed in Texas on an airplane coming from Liberia. The patient sought treatment a few days after arriving in Texas and was admitted to an isolation room at... more
ReportLufthansa's airplanes still blocked for pilots' strike by Vereiningung Cockpit from Frankfurt
Berlin, Germany - The protest will involve only the long range flights from/to/via the German airport
Vereinigung Cockpit, the pilots' union, announced a strike that will interest the long haul flights departing from Lufthansa's hub in Frankfurt. The protest is planned for tomorrow, September 30, from... more
ReportAirplanes and health. The melanoma occupation disease of pilots and flight assistants?
Rome, Italy - According to a study the illness would have a twofold impact compared to the ones remaining
The risk is linked to a major UV rays of the sun and to the cosmic radiation in those professional activities carried out at great altitudes, like those by who operates on board of airplanes, and that... more
ReportAircraft and transport. Bardarbunga status update: the volcanic-seismic activity stable but active
Helsinki, Finland - The ban to fly over continues in all area
An eruption began around at 00:02 of last night in Holuhraun, at North of Dyngjujökull. Seismic tremble has been monitored by all observation stations. At first glance the eruptive activity decreased... more
ReportAlitalia (2): prosecutor's office opens inquiry about baggage chaos in Fiumicino airport
Rome, Italy - Lupi: "Zero tolerance on strikes or certificates for false illness"
The final act of a shameful fact exactly in these days, with major passenger movements at the Rome-Fiumicino international airport, gateway to the "Eternal city", sees damaged a mass of innocent travellers... more
ReportIsrael and Iraq: Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli begins 3-day visit to the front
Rome, Italy - To carry Italy's message of solidarity to the planet's "Hottest" spots
Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli is about to embark on a demanding 3-day trip for the purpose of carrying Italy’s message of solidarity to the planet’s "Hottest" spots: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Bag... more
ReportFinmeccanica, AgustaWestland helicopters. The Indian Government continues the investigation
Rome, Italy - Despite the decision taken by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Busto Arsizio, CBI goes on in the inquiry
Despite the decision taken by the Public Prosecutor of Busto Arsizio Eugenio Fusco to file the legal action against Finmeccanica due to the investigation for international corruption, that involved the... more
ReportLibya. Italian Minister Mogherini chairs coordination table with Embassy and Crisis Unit: aircraft for return of Italians and others in the next days
Rome, Italy - On the request of some governments, Italy has also arranged for the departure of 30 persons of other nationalities
In response to the worsening crisis in Libya, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini chaired a coordination meeting yesterday evening with our embassy and the foreign ministry Crisis Unit. The... more