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25 Mar Newsnow.co.uk Last 24hrs and earlier
Private jet with 11 people on board has been forced to make an emergency landing at Townsville QLD after an engine shut down. The Westwind jet, described as a small Lear jet, took off from Townsville about 20.30 yesterday with two pilots and nine passengers on board. It had been contracted by the Royal Australian Air Force to fly to the Tindall airbase in the Northern Territory. Shortly after take-off the right engine completely shutdown, forcing the pilots to turn back.
.A member of the French Secret Service team that carried out the Rainbow Warrior bombing in 1985 has been killed in a plane crash in the French Alps.
.Two federal police officers have been taken to hospital and others have been evacuated after a fire at Sydney Airport ruptured drums of a liquid chemical. The fire in a storage shed has been contained, fire officers say.
A blaze broke out in the shed near a helicopter hangar on Ross Smith Avenue at Mascot about 6am today, NSW Fire Brigades spokesman Craig Brierley said.Earlier News
.The (UK) Government would not stop British Airways becoming a Spanish company as a result of a merger with Iberia, the Transport Secretary said yesterday.
.A Dubai-bound Emirates Airline flight has been forced to make an emergency landing at Melbourne Airport after its tail scraped the tarmac during take-off. The 225 passengers on board the Airbus 340-500 feared for their safety when smoke filled the cabin, forcing the plane to land at 10.30pm last night. Flight EK407 reportedly dumped fuel as it circled the airport for 30 minutes before landing safely. (Reported 21 Mar)24 Mar Ryanair to expand in Spain despite crisis
Irish low-cost airline Ryanair is to open 39 new Spanish routes in 2009 despite a sharp drop in tourism due to the global economic crisis, CEO Michael O'Leary said Tuesday. "At a time when traffic to and from Spain is collapsing, particularly at the major Spanish airports, including Madrid and Barcelona, Ryanair is still the one airline in Spain growing rapidly," he said.
Ryanair will open up 39 new routes to and from eight Spanish airports -- Alicante, Girona, Granada, Ibiza, Palma, Reus, Santander and Sevilla and O'Leary forecasts Ryanair would overtake Spanish flag carrier Iberia as the country's largest airline in about two years.
O'Leary saw "enormous growth opportunities" for Spanish tourism and airports if the country's airport authority, AENA, lowers its charges making Spain the world's second biggest tourist destination after France.He also reaffirmed that the airline has no plans to make a third bid for Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus.
"The only way would be if the Irish government comes back and asks us to rescue Aer Lingus," he said.
The Irish government, which owns 25 percent of Aer Lingus, rejected a Ryanair bid in January, arguing that it greatly undervalued the carrier. Madrid-AFP22 Mar Fedex plane crashes at Tokyo / Piper crashes in Butte,MT
A Fedex MD-11 cargo plane was caught by 70kmh side winds at Tokyo's Narita, turned over and caught fire killing both crew.
At Butte, MT a Pilatus Piper PC-12 light aircraft en-route from Orville, California to Bozeman, Montana crashed onto a cemetery just 100 yds from the runway (but not in a flight path) after attempting an emergency landing. It is believed that 15 children and the crew died. The plane was possibly not registered to carry so many passengers (normally 9 or 10) and nose-dived into the cemetery after the pilot lost control just short of Butte.
14 Mar Emergency landing at Shanghai (newsnow.co.uk>straits times)
A Japanese airliner made an emergency landing at Shanghai's Pudong Airport on Saturday but there were no reports of casualties, Chinese state media reported.
The plane, which was carrying 208 passengers and 14 crew, made the emergency landing shortly after take-off, Xinhua news agency said, quoting local border inspection sources. The Xinhua report did not say which Japanese airline was involved or why it was forced to make the emergency landing. -- AFP07 Mar Update CH-Aviation from 23 Feb
(see 23 Feb. This posting in Mar for 1mth only) - (9 page update)
01 Mar Newsnow.co.uk - news of the day (click quicklink above if links below dont work)
Romanian plane crash-lands - The Sun 16:46 28-Feb-09 ..carrying 51 PAX made a dramatic emergency landing in western Romania today. The Carpatair flight’s front landing gear became stuck and the plane circled Timisoara Intl for almost 2 hrs, using up fuel before it landed on a 200metre bed of foam laid out by firefighters. Good pic. Moldovan pilots, Iurie Oleacov and Leonid Babischi highly experienced. “We did our job without feeling like heroes,” Oleacov said later [to prove he was feeling like a ....?] All OK
V-Australia started flying SYD-LAX this last week and will fly from BNE-LAX coming week. MEL comingUnited will restart direct Chicago flights - TMCnet.com 20:48 28-Feb-09
Another whinge by a reporter that wants to discuss his flights. Only the complainers appear to dislike Ryanair -
because they'll soon have nobody to complain to anymore. What's to discuss at £5 per flight! Pay up and keep quiet.
Manchester UK to sell plastic security bags at £1 for those who come unprepared.
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