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ReportMore than 200 Chinese civil pilots falsified their résumés?
Bejing , China - Because of the CAAC finding, Chinese Government is conducting an investigation
CAAC, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, found that more than 200 Chinese pilots lied, in 2008 and 2009, declaring on their résumés more hours spent flying than they really did. More than h... more
ReportFrance, national warning strike to disrupt air traffic tomorrow
Paris, France - The demonstration will be against public-sector pension reforms
French DGCA, director general of civil aviation, announces that tomorrow, September 7th 2010, travel by airplanes is likely to be disrupted because of a warning strike announced by French public services'... more
ReportPakistan: US drone strike kills 6
Data Khel, Pakistan - 25:1 ratio of civilians killed against intended military target, according to reports
At least six people were killed and two others injured in a US drone strike launched Saturday night in Pakistan's northwest tribal area, reported local media. According to the report, the strike took... more
ReportRecord heat and fires in Russia: Medvedev buys other firefighting aircraft?
Moscow, Russia - He'd have said it in a telephone conversation with Putin
From what we read on "Ria Novosti" agency, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev would be deeply concerned by the terrible state of drought which the country is in, following one of the most heavy and abnormal... more
ReportArrives at Malpensa airport the A-380 airplane by Emirates
Milan, Italy - On board Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed al Maktoum, President of the carrier. On runway Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi expects
11:30 am, Malpensa, Italy. Is the estimated time of landing for A-380 airplane of Emirates, the first scheduled flight to touch Italian soil operated with the majestic jewel of the Toulouse manufacturer. On... more
ReportAir transport: French air controllers' strike until Thursday morning
Paris, France - Against the reorganization of European skies. DGAC asked companies 50% flights cancellations on Orly and 20% on Roissy
At the conclusion of a unions' meeting held yesterday evening, in agreement with French directorate general of civil aviation (DGAC), the associations of air traffic controllers have confirmed the notice... more
ReportItalian soldiers wounded in Afghanistan is not life-threatening
Bala Morghab, Afghanistan - The Eurocopter Cougar ISAF helicopter shot while evacuating seriously injured
The three Italian soldiers' lives aren't in danger: the three were wounded this morning at 11am (local time) in Bala Morghab in Afghanistan in a firefight. Assurances from the Italian Defense Minister... more
ReportAustralian Chinook helicopter fired upon by insurgents
Kandahar, Afghanistan - Two soldiers on board received minor wounds
An Australian CH-47 Chinook helicopter was fired upon by insurgents yesterday as it was taking off from a coalition patrol base in the Arghandab Valley region of Kandahar. Two coalition forces soldiers... more
Report3 Italian soldiers wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan. Also damaged a helicopter
Bala Murghab, Afghanistan - 2 soldiers in serious conditions
Three Italian soldiers wounded in a shootout occurred about 3 hours ago in western Afghanistan. Also hit a helicopter. The firefight, as we know so far, occurred south of Bala Murghab, one of the most... more
ReportChinese "UFO" crashes air traffic in Zhejiang
Huangzhou, China - The unidentified flying object seen in Ningbo and Wuxi cities, too
A "UFO" has blocked air traffic in eastern China, according to Xinhua agency. According to the Chinese agency, the unidentified flying object was spotted around 9 on Wednesday evening (local time) in... more
ReportUnited pilot briefly detained after lowering his pants during security screening
Sao Paulo, Brazil - Not the first American pilot gotten into trouble over Brazil's airport security measures
A United Airlines pilot found himself in hot water after lowering his pants during a security screening and laughing at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos International Airport officials. Pilot Michael D. Slynn,... more
ReportFrance available to Italian judge's requests about slaughter of Ustica
Rome, Italy - A few days from 30th of Itavia plane-crash, ministries of Defense, Internal affairs and Transportation ordered to pay compensation of 1 million Euros
On the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the massacre of Ustica, the Rome prosecutors ask France and the US about military air traffic in the airspace off the coast of Ustica (Sicily), the evening of... more
ReportTurkey stationed army troops, warplanes, Uav and helicopter along the border with Iraq
Ankara, Turkey - Strong solution against Pkk guerrilla warfare after the death of eleven soldiers
Turkey stationed yesterday army troops, panzers, warplanes, helicopters, and an Uav (Unmanned aerial vehicle) during an offensive against the Pkk along the border with Iraq - in those passages used by... more
ReportToo fat. He had to leave the airplane
London, United Kingdom - A 440 lb man had to go to Canada to visit his ill aunt
Sandy Russell was on an Air Transat airplane that was leaving from London-Gatwick and was directed to Toronto, when the flight attendants on board told him to leave the airplane because he was too fat.... more
ReportSwitzerland. Dies during repatriation, compensation to the family
Zurich, Switzerland - Swiss Confederation will have to pay 50 thousand Francs
The Swiss Confederation will pay fifty thousand francs to the family of Nigerian asylum seeker died at Zurich airport last March during his forced return to their country of origin. The anticipation... more
ReportCongo: Australian mining executive and one of the richest men in the country missing after their plane lost contact
Yaounde, Cameroon - Perhaps it crashed in dense jungle. Search resumed at dawn this morning
Missing in Congo airplane carrying the Australian billionaire Ken Talbot and Geoff Wedlock, chairman of mining company Sundance. The aircraft was directed at the project "Mbalam iron ore" site (which... more
ReportFiumicino Airport: 125k Euro fines on fake taxi drivers
Rome, Italy - Foreign tourists preferred prey of illegal drivers: their rates twice the standard
Carabinieri of the Airports Company blitz on illegal taxi drivers in Fiumicino “Leonardo Da Vinci”. The harvest of the operation found 173 violations and 17 high road traffic contraventions, a total of... more
ReportAirplane with dozens of human skulls stopped in Arkansas
Little Rock, USA - The load was directed to a research center in Texas, but the authority investigates
A load of human body parts - 4 complete skulls and 40 parietal bones and sound blocks - discovered yesterday on board of a Southwest Airlines' airplane. The usual investigation procedure has started and... more
ReportFlight attendant at aircraft's controls for the landing
Chicago, Usa - The co-pilot fell suddenly sick and was worthily
A flight attendant who has a pilot's license replaced an ill first officer during at O'Hare Chicago's International Airport this week. Officials said the co-pilot of an American Airlines plane that... more
ReportMilan-Malpensa: arrested thieves specialized for airports
Milan, Italy - A man, a woman and a partner in crime had already acted at Klagenfurt, Vienna, Bremen, Budapest and Frankfurt
It was just the last robbery to give away them, that one made in a jewelery inside the Milan-Malpensa airport's transit area, after which investigations started by the airport's border police leading to... more
ReportUltralight flying at low altitude over the town, Carabinieri helicopter unit intercept
Trapani, Italy - Palermo Carabinieri intimate landing and the pilot gets reported to authorities
Acrobatic maneuvers over the town of Alcamo Marina (Trapani), but pilot is identified and denounced. A first concrete example of the fight - long overdue - to the ups and downs that often ultralights... more
ReportUSA. IAM union refuses Boeing proposal: strike for 2500 workers
St. Louis, Usa - If an agreement will not be reached, the protest to regard the workers in the St. Louis area
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) 837, which represents about 2,500 employees in the St. Louis area, voted yesterday to reject the best and final contract offer The... more
ReportSmolensk aircraft's disaster: victims' credit cards stolen
Smolensk, Russia - Four Russian soldiers would have stolen them in the incident's scene and used to withdraw money
In the "Moskow Times" newspaper we can read that 4 Russian soldiers would have been arrested by the Polish authorities because of they stole some credit cards on the Smolensk disaster's scene, where on... more
ReportFour deads in three crashes happened to helicopters R-22, HSA-316B Chetak and B-222UT
Rome, Italy - Two happened in USA, one in India
Last Wednesday unfortunately the report registered three fatal incidents happened to as many helicopters, two in USA and one in India. At 4:30 pm a Robinson R-22 Beta II operated by the Inland Helicopters'... more
ReportToday repatriation of the Italians involved in the Israeli attack
Rome, Italy - Also the last pacifist, longer hold in Israel, has left in the morning
Hundreds of activists who were on the humanitarian convoy guided by Turkish against whom the Israeli forces made a raid, where landed today at Istanbul, proven by the facts but welcomed as heroes by thousands... more
ReportA woman falls asleep and remains locked alone on airplane
Philadelphia, USA - After landing at Philadelphia airport. Now she want to sue the air company
It's possible to be left locked alone on a plane after landing? It seem just so and the American woman, who has tried it personally, remained so much as 4 hours locked in the aircraft fuselage grounded... more
ReportIsraeli attack to "Freedom Flotilla": the prior event
Ankara, Turkey - According Erdogan's plan if activist prevented by Israel they would be transported to Gaza by helicopters
It seems that Israeli intelligence's sources had reveled already during last days the sending of a indirect message to Tel Aviv by the Ankara's government, announcing ""Reveange"" if the Israeli Navy Forces... more
ReportUN's resolution against Israeli attack to pacifist ship directed to Gaza
Jerusalem, Israel - In these hours the UN's Security Board's reunion to take measures after the heavy balance of 9 dead and 32 injured
The activists' adventure, lead by the non-governmental organization "Free Gaza", who wanted to break open the block, ordered around the Gaza strip from when Hamas came to power in 2007, finished in a bloody... more
ReportStrong turbulence on the Atlantic: 10 wounded on an United's airplane
Montreal, Canada - Someone with fractures at upper limbs. The other passengers re-protected on another carrier's flight, while the airplane is in reparation
A strong turbulence has made to lose altitude on the Atlantic to a B-777 airplane of United Airlines, last Tuesday flying from London to Los Angeles. The consequences have been the wounding of a crew member... more
ReportSeul plans military action with Usa: tensions raises up between two Korea after gunboat shinking
Seoul, South Korea - And the North Korea leader Kim Jong-il would have ordered his soldiers to get on war footing
Tension between the two Korea has been a sudden escalation with the sanctions decided on Monday by Seoul against Pyongyang, charged with the shinking of a South Korea gunboat causing death of 46 persons.... more
ReportJamaica. Closed the Kingston's airport: police-narcos fighting
Kingston, Jamaica - The US Department of State warns people about travel to Jamaica
The US Department of State has warned people against any travel to Kingston and around areas. "The access to Norman Manley International Airport is closed intermittently by criminals and police fighting",... more
Report"Jet Blue's pilot menaces suicide on flight", but the company denies
Boston, Usa - But the professional would be hospitalized in a neurology unit
At the moment we can't say how much is real about news circulated on world-wide newspaper during last hours, regarding the assumed email sent day before yesterday by American Jet Blue airplanes' pilot... more
ReportConcorde crash: Continental accuses Air France marginal at trial
Pontoise, France - For "Obstacle to justice"
In the distance of almost ten years from Concorde's airplane disaster of Air France, during take-off's phase from "Charles de Gaulle" in Paris-Roissy crashed on a hotel killing 113 people (100 passengers,... more
ReportAttempt in Afghanistan: injured Italians come back in Europe. Chapel of rest for the victims at Herat
Rome, Italy - Scirè hospitalized at Rome's Celio, Bonacucina at the Ramstein's American Hospital. Today Pascazio and Ramadù corpses' come back
Yesterday report registered major corporal Gianfranco Scirè come back to Italy, who was injured together with corporal Cristina Bonacucina in attempt made by Taliban on dozens of different nationality... more
ReportNew heavy hit to British: aircraft stopped for 20 days
London, Great Britain - Called by Unite union, after considering insufficient the carrier's proposal
British Airways’ shaky finances is expected to take another hit after the air carrier’s cabin crew announced on Monday a 20-day strike. The industrial action was agreed upon following the rejection by... more
ReportMan threatens passengers on afghan flight
Kabul, Afghanistan - Still doubts about the accident
An Afghan man was arrested after creating panic on an Ariana Afghan Airlines plane flying from Kabul to the Iranian city of Mashad, through Kandahar. The episode took place last Sunday, and luckily nobody... more
ReportUSA aircraft pilot sells powdered mix to hide drugs
Pittsburgh, Usa - Sale was over the Internet, directed to those workers categories with sensibile profile for safety
A pilot for US Airways Express has been declared guilty to have sold powdered drink mix by the Internet, thought in order to hid drugs and pass federal drug tests for categories as truck drivers, pilots... more
ReportGreece: bookings for summer travel hold on
Athens, Greece - Director of National Hellenic Tourist Board makes it know
In the light of latest claims and actions in Greece, cause by the economical collapse of the country and whose heavy balance saw three persons paying with their lives. However it seems that the travel... more
ReportRome-Fiumicino airport: cocaine maxi-seizure
Rome, Italy - Liquid drug-soaked clothes inside four baggage
A hard blow to international traffic of drugs was inflicted at Rome-Fiumicino airport, where the Financial Police and customs officers discovered a 51-year-old Spanish man in the act, landed in the capital... more
ReportThe 48-hour strike begins in Greece: paralysed aircraft
Athens, Greece - One of the biggest claim of last ten years, union leaders say
This morning the public employees' 48-hour strike has begun, claiming against the new austerity plan, arranged by the Government of Athens with FMI (International Money Fund) and European Union (UE), in... more
ReportCar-bomb at Times Square: blocked at "Kennedy" airport suspect Pakistani man
New York, Usa - Arrested just before to embark on a flight to Dubai. He would have purchased the vehicle used as car-bomb
The car-bomb at Times-Square is one of the less elaborate attempt tried during last years in New York, and however, even rudimental, the Nissan full of propane and fireworks was nearer to make victims... more
ReportPrince Harry has earned his wings
London, Great Britain - From his office they say he's very pleasant to become an Army helicopter pilot
Harry, the younger son of Charles and the late Princess Diana, is third in line to the British throne, but known in the military simply as Lt. Harry Wales. Earlier this week, he passed the final exams... more
ReportIntersky aircraft goes off the runway during landing at the Elba's airport
Livorno, Italy - Forty people risking life seriously during a low-cost landing from Zurich
On 1st May at 5:45pm an Intersky low-cost airplane coming from Zurich 'Lost its way' during landing at the Elba Island airport of Marina di Campo (Livorno) by crashing against a high voltage electric-power... more
ReportStrikes: Airbus aircraft production stop continues to the bitter end
Toulouse, France - Employees supported by the unions claim for 3,5% increasing of wages
Airbus' employees working at Toulose's facility are continuing stop of production, began yesterday, today too, putting in action a series of strikes in turantion will last for all the week in many French... more
ReportTomorrow will be forty years of "Earth Day"
Rome, Italy - Thousands of events in 175 countries, remembering the Space Agencies' effort
Tomorrow will be forty years for the "Earth Day", and there will be a lot of happening organized in 175 countries world-wide, to make aware on issues about environment and ecology. In Rome it will happen... more
ReportVolcanic cloud and air traffic: France's position
Paris, France - The results of the meeting wanted by PM Fillon: special airplanes corridors and division for section of the air space
The French Prime Minister, François Fillon, has gathered yesterday the State Minister, Jean-Louis Borloo, Ecology, Energy, sea development's minister designate for green technologies and for negotiations... more
ReportVolcano's eruption: France enlarged air space's closure
Paris, France - The bulletin by DGAC
The DGAC, French civil aviation general direction, communicated that for security reasons linked to the cloud of ashes from volcano's eruption in Iceland, were closed the air traffic the following airports: -... more
ReportIceland eruption: France expands closure of air space in the north of Country
Paris, France - Landings allowed until 6:00pm of today only at Paris-Roissy, Le Bourget and Orly; always in the three airports and still until 6:00pm authorized take off in a limitation manner to evacuate the blocked passenger
On the base of the information sent by London's volcanology center in collaboration with Météo-France, the DGAC (French civil aviation General direction) informs in the last bulletin issued that the c... more
ReportVolcano's eruption in Iceland: North French air space still closed until 8:00pm
Paris, France - From 12 to 4:00pm opened a flight window, but only for landings
DGAC's bulletin (French Civil Aviation General Direction), that makes reference to Météo France center and London's volcanology one, is read that the airports in Calais, Merville, Le Touquet, Dieppe, C... more
ReportUpgrade about volcanic cloud and air space
Rome, Italy - Deleted 50% of USA's flights and some dozen in Japan
North Europe became a huge no-fly zone, as consequence of movement and spread by winds of dense and obscuring cloud. The worrying obstacle to air navigation originated by ashes came out from the Icelandic... more