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ReportItaly, works to begin for "A. Leonardi" airfield's heliport
Terni, Italy - The only facility of this kind in the Umbria region
The municipality of Terni yesterday announced that on October 26 works will begin for the construction of the new heliport with night lighting by the airfield "Alvaro Leonardi" of Maratta. The pad will... more
ReportPassengers' rights association sues Delta Airlinews
Atlanta, USA - It would have hacked its members' emails to hinder a regulation proposal
Delta Airlines has been sued by a consumers' association with the charge of having hacked email addresses of its members, while attempting to hinder a new regulation on passengers' rights that was about... more
ReportItaly, the president of Aeroporti di Puglia accused of corruption
Bari, Italy - Within a wide inquiry on health-related bribes
Also the president and director general of Aeroporti di Puglia, Domenico di Paola (for corruption) and Marco Franchini (for auction disturbance), are among the charged ones in wide inquiry called "La Fiorita"... more
ReportKazakh fighter drops bomb on houses
Almaty, Kazakhstan - No victims nor injured people reported
A Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer of the Kazakh air force yesterday accidentally dropped one of its bombs, which fell on a house in the region of Almaty (ex Alma-Ata). Luckily the bomb didn't explode, but the country's... more
ReportItaly: Atitech workers protest, hangar blocked at Naples airport
Naples, Italy - Meeting with the government deferred to Monday
An Airbus A-321 aircraft that had just been repaired was blocked today inside its hangar at Naples-Capodichino airport by Atitech workers protesting because they didn't receive the salary for August yet.... more
ReportScuffle between crewmembers on Air India flight
Lucknow, India - The co-pilot would have molested the hostess
Air India flight IC884 performed with an Airbus A-320/200 aircraft, with 106 passengers and 7 crewmembers on board, has surely been a lively one. When they were about 3 hours into the flight between Sharjah... more
ReportEuropean pilots protest against EU regulation on aircrew fatigue
Rome, Italy - They ask Europe to follow the "Moebus Study"
The European Cockpit Association (ECA), European trade union representing about 38,000 airline pilots in the continent, announced for today a series of protests against the European regulation concerning... more
ReportDozens of FARC guerrilla killed in air raid in Colombia
Bogota, Colombia - Among them also commander Jeronimo Galeano
From 30 to 40 FARC guerrilla have been killed yesterday in an air raid performed by the Colombian air force in the mountainous province of Tolima, in the center of the country. The strike has been one... more
ReportThe crew of the Hudson river miracle back in flight
New York, USA - On January 15 they saved the lives of 155 people with a spectacular sea-landing on the river
Pilot-hero Chesley Sullenberger and his co-pilot Jeff Skiles, protagonists of the spectacular sea landing on the Hudson river, New York, with which on January 15 they saved the lives of 155 people on board... more
ReportItaly, Aiut Alpin: 287 rescue missions in summer
Bolzano, Italy - Most of them for mountain emergencies
During the last summer season, which ended yesterday for the province of Bolzano (Italy), the helicopter rescue teams of Aiut Alpin Dolomites performed 287 missions, almost all related to emergency cases... more
ReportTsunami in Samoa's islands: helicopters for rescue arriving
Apia, Samoa - US, Australia and New Zealand have sent them. Obama declares the disaster state
An other earth tremor that has overpassed the 7th degree of Richter scale added to the strong earthquake (8.3 degree) that has hit last night Samoa's islands, causing a tsunami with wave high over than... more
ReportThe Pope flies to Prague with Alitalia
Rome, Italy - The less christian European capital
Pope Benedict XVI will fly tomorrow for a trip to the less christian capital in Europe, with only 2% of participation to Sunday's masses. The Pope will travel with the airline Alitalia-CAI. "Alitalia... more
ReportIATA aims to improve credit card operations
Geneva, Switzerland - Two services to reduce commissions and to protect airlines from frauds
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) yesterday announced the launch of two services for airlines around the world to reduce costs and help manage risk associated with credit card operations. The... more
ReportAt least 12 killed in US drone attack in Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan - Hit one of Taliban and Al Qaeda's strongholds
At least 12 people were killed tonight in a strike likely performed by a US drone in Pakistan, in the north Waziristan region, an area near the Afghan border. Around midnight hit the Dandy Darpa Khel village,... more
ReportIATA presents climate change proposals to heads of governments
New York, USA - Getting close to Copenhagen meeting in December
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) presented its proposals to the UN summit in New York. The forum takes place in the run-up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... more
ReportSydney under a sand blanket: transports in tilt
Sydney, Australia - Delays and cancellations into the flights
This morning Sydney has been recovered by a compact red sand blanket brought by a strong storm, the most powerful in the last decades, according the experts, adding that the phenomenon is moving until... more
ReportStockholm: spectacular stealing and escape by helicopter
Stockholm, Sweden - They operate in front of the powerless officers
A stealing assembled in a perfect manner with minimal particulars that practised this morning in the early morning in the cash deposit of the vigilance institute G4S in Vastberga, near Stockholm. A... more
ReportLife sentence for three terrorists who were planning to use liquid explosives on airplanes
London, UK - The attack was avoided in 2006
Three of the terrorists who in the summer of 2006 planned a joint attack on several airliners departing from the UK towards the USA, have been sentenced today to life prison by London's court. The head... more
ReportEconomy class flights for Sonia Gandhi and Indian ministers
New Delhi, India - To save on the cost of politics in a difficult moment for the country
It is austerity time for Sonia Gandhi, president of the Indian National Congress party, currently leading the country, and for New Delhi's ministers. Many of them in fact have started to take commercial... more
ReportAttacks on September 11, 2001 (2): the victims
Rome, Italy - A total of 411 emergency workers died
There were a total of 2,993 deaths, including the 19 hijackers: 246 on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,603 in New York City in the towers and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon.... more
ReportToday it's the anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001
Rome, Italy - Not included 19 skyjackers, victims were 2974; 24 still missing
Early in the morning on September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers took control of four commercial airliners en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington, D.C. (Washington-Dulles... more
ReportMan hijacked airplane for "Divine revelation"
Mexico City, Mexico - He gave up, passengers and crew safe
The skyjacking has been resolved in a positive manner that for hours there was fear for the safety of 104 passengers and crew on board of a B-737 airplane of the AeroMexico. Took off from Boliva, after... more
ReportArrest order for French pilot crashed on Monte Rosa
Aosta, Italy - He has attached fire at the hangar of city's airport before to take off
André Michelin, 64, the French pilot "Known" to the press because crashed last Monday with his Robin DR-400 on Lyskamm glacier, in Monte Rosa. The man, still accepted in Aosta's hospital because wounded,... more
ReportNATO admits civil victims in Afghan air attack
Kunduz, Afghanistan - The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, reaffirms Germany's commitment in Afghanistan
NATO admitted the presence of civilians among the victims of Friday's air attack in the northern province of Kunduz, Afghanistan (see AVIONEWS). So far this possibility had not been ruled out, nor confirmed... more
ReportTwo civilians killed in suicide bombing in Kabul
Kabul, Afghanistan - Several injured among which some NATO troops
Violence goes on in Afghanistan after the presidential elections that led to the disputed confirmation of Hamid Karzai. A man on an off-road vehicle exploded today near the NATO base at Kabul international... more
ReportUK. In 2006 they were planning aircraft bombings: three charged
London, UK - Their arrest caused the limits on boarded liquids
Three terrorists arrested in 2006 while planning to cause a second "September 11" in Europe by carrying on board of some commercial flights liquid explosives, designed to pass through security checks.... more
ReportWTO ruled against state aid to Airbus
Geneva, Switzerland - But a final decision could take years
As expected the WTO (World Trade Organization), backing Boeing's protest, would have decided against governmental financial aid to Airbus by the countries members of the Eads consortium, France, Germany,... more
ReportAir attack in Afghanistan, NATO opens an inquiry
Kabul, Afghanistan - Several civilians likely involved
Following tonight bombing in northern Afghanistan that killed dozens of victims, likely including several civilians, besides Taliban rebels, (see AVIONEWS), NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen,... more
ReportDozen of victims in NATO bombing in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan - Against a tank-truck seized by Taliban rebels
The death toll of a NATO bombing tonight against Afghan rebels, who had seized a tank-truck in northern Afghanistan, is of dozens of victims (NATO says 56; 90 according to local sources), among which there... more
ReportSeptember 1, 1939: Hitler invades Poland
Gdansk, Poland - Marking the beginning of World War II
The representatives of Germany, Russia and Italy, besides some 20 further delegations, met today in Gdansk, Poland, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the German invasion. The ceremony was attended by... more
ReportLibya, the display team will fly with three-coloured smoke
Rome, Italy - Confirmed by prime minister Berlusconi and defense minister La Russa
Although Libya keeps asking that the Italian display team performs using only green smoke, the colour of the Libyan flag, on the occasion of the celebrations 40 years after Muammar al-Gaddafi seized control... more
ReportScheduled links restart between China and Taiwan
Beijng, China - For the first time in 60 years
For the first time in 60 years Chinese and Taiwanese airlines today started scheduled links between the two countries, following the announcements made in recent months (see AVIONEWS). The deal includes... more
ReportItaly: girls mock Verona airport security systems
Verona, Italy - With an urticant spray, for fun, they blocked the airport for one hour
Two girls of 16 and 17 yesterday managed to mock all Verona airport security systems. With an urticant spray, for fun, they caused sickness and burning eyes to many passengers, forcing authorities to close... more
ReportSomali pirates shoot rocket against American helicopter
Manama, Bahrain - Target missed, no military injured
A group of Somali pirates on board of the ship "Win Far" yesterday shot what appeared to be a rocket against a US Navy Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk helicopter, belonging to the Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron... more
ReportToday it's the 21st anniversary of Ramstein disaster
Ramstein, Germany - 70 people died following the mid-air collision between three aircraft of the Italian display team
Exactly 21 years ago, August 28, 1988, three Aermacchi MB-339 aircraft of the Italian display team "Frecce Tricolori", during an air show at the American base in Ramstein, Western Germany, collided in... more
ReportAir France aircraft fails to identify itself in India, MiG-29s alerted
Bangkok, Thailand - Inquiry opened by New Delhi's authorities
MiG-29 fighter jets of the Indian Air Force have taken off today to intercept an Air France Airbus A-340/300, flight AF164 from Paris to Bangkok (Thailand), after the aircraft failed to identify itself... more
ReportItaly: man stealing diesel oil at Ancona airport denounced
Ancona, Italy - After reports for the excessive fuel consumption of some vehicles
A man working for a side company at Ancona-Falconara marittima airport (Italy) has been denounced because found stealing dozens of liters of diesel oil from some vehicles. The denounce arrived thanks to... more
ReportFour killed in Israeli air attack in Gaza
Rafah, Palestine - Hit the tunnels used for weapon-smuggling
The violence escalation in the Gaza strip goes on. At least three or four Palestinians (depending on the source), workers who were under a tunnel on the border between Egypt and Gaza, have been killed... more
ReportItalian government criticized for sending the "Frecce Tricolori" in Libya
Rome, Italy - But the defense minister, La Russa, confirmed the commitment. Berlusconi: "Feeling with Tripoli is crucial for us"
The Italian minister of defense, Ignazio La Russa, has confirmed the exhibition of the "Frecce Tricolori", the display team of the Italian Air Force, on September 1 in Tripoli on the occasion of the 40th... more
ReportLuggage left in Morocco to make room for a VIP's ones
Rome, Italy - The protest of some passengers who landed yesterday in Rome-Fiumicino
The passengers of Royal Air Maroc flight AT940 landed yesterday evening at 7:27 pm at Rome-Fiumicino airport after having taken off from Casablanca, waited for hours for their baggage to arrive, but they... more
ReportItaly, Milan: fraud for € 900,000 to Filipino travellers
Milan, Italy - Investigation closed against the two owners of a tourism agency
For two months the Filipino owners of a tourism agency in Milan, Italy, had been selling flights' tickets to other Filipino citizens. During this period they had earned more than € 900,000 from hundreds o... more
ReportItalian consumers' association: too many inefficiencies in air transport
Rome, Italy - The request for a meeting with the ministers of tourism and transport
EUROCONTROL's recent report that placed Italy at the bottom of the flight punctuality ranking (see AVIONEWS) has provoked the reaction of the Italian consumers' association Adiconsum that lamented too... more
ReportLockerbie bomber al-Megrahi released by Scotland
Rome, Italy - Hard reaction from the United States
Scotland has freed today Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, former Libyan intelligence agent condemned to life-imprisonment for the Lockerbie terrorist attack, when a bomb exploded on a Boeing 747/121 aircraft... more
ReportRome: 14 drug smugglers arrested in Fiumicino
Rome, Italy - They were carrying 55 kg of cocaine in their luggage
The operation "New Orange" carried out by the Italian financial police at Rome-Fiumicino airport is over: it brought to the arrest of 14 people and to the seize of 55 kg of cocaine. The drug smugglers,... more
ReportChild charged € 10 to recover the purse she had lost on a Ryanair airplane
Dublin, Ireland - The fare applied by Greencap, company that manages "Lost&Found" services for the low-cost carrier
An Irish child, nine-year-old E.L., has been charged € 10 to get back her purse, which she had lost on a Ryanair airplane coming from Spain. The kid, already sad for the loss, after her father, Sean L... more
ReportRussia, a rescue airplane for Nazran bomb's victims
Moscow, Russia - A new terrorist action in the Ingushetia region
The Russian government has made an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft available to supply rescue and support to the victims of a bomb exploded today in Nazran, in the Ingushetia region. The toll so far is of... more
ReportTaliban leader likely killed in US drone attack
Makeen, Pakistan - Head of Pakistani rebels
Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, might have been killed together with his wife in an attack performed by an American drone in Makeen, south-Waziristan region, Islamabad's interiors minister... more
ReportAlinghi's catamaran to arrive in Genoa by helicopter
Genoa, Italy - The journey will be performed by a Mil Mi-26T helicopter, the biggest in the world
Alinghi, America's Cup holder team, will transport tomorrow its catamaran from Le Bouveret, Switzerland, to Genoa, Italy. For the transport will be used a Mil Mi-26T helicopter, the biggest in the world,... more
ReportBlind woman misses Ryanair flight due to queues for baggage-dropping
Swindon, UK - The carrier: "She was late, all the other passangers made the flight"
"It wasn’t an experience I will ever repeat, I will never fly with them again". This has been the comment made by Claire Randall, a blind woman from Swindon, UK, who had to renounce on Friday to reach P... more
ReportOn August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was hit by an atomic bomb
Rome, Italy - From that day the world has never been the same
On August 6, 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress from the 393rd bomber squadron of the US Air Force, named "Enola Gay" after colonel Paul Tibbet's, pilot of the aircraft, mother, took off from Tinian base... more