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Thames Estuary airport plans to be examined
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- January 19, 2012
The government is to hold a formal consultation on UK aviation - including controversial plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary.
The study, to begin in March, will look at options for "maintaining the UK's aviation hub status".
Downing Stre...
Latin America's biggest airline LATAM is approved
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- December 15, 2011
The merger of two major Latin American airlines has been approved, creating the largest carrier in the region.
Brazil's anti-trust authorities said they approved the merger of the Brazilian airline TAM with Chile's LAN, first proposed in 2010.
The...
Philippines plane crashes into school in Paranaque
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- December 11, 2011
A small plane has crashed in the Philippines into a school building in Paranaque near the capital, Manila.
At least 13 people were killed, including two children, police and Red Cross officials say.
Paranaque's Mayor, Florencio Bernabe, said no c...
Jersey Airport closes for emergency exercise
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- November 12, 2011
Jersey Airport will close on Saturday for an emergency exercise.
The airport runway and terminal buildings will close at 19:00 GMT for the exercise to see how well it can respond to a serious emergency.
But the early close means a two night stay i...
Russia ice hockey plane crash blamed on 'pilot error'
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- November 2, 2011
A Russian plane crash that killed 44 people, including an entire ice hockey team, was caused by pilot error, say investigators.
The Yak-42 plane came down on 7 September near the city of Yaroslavl.
The investigators say the pilot activated the bra...
Plane carrying 230 passengers crash lands in Warsaw
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- November 2, 2011
A Boeing 767 carrying 230 passengers has made an emergency landing at Warsaw airport after its landing gear failed.
The plane, which was travelling from the US city of Newark, in New Jersey, landed on its belly without its wheels.
It had circled a...
Boeing's Dreamliner begins first commercial flight
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- October 26, 2011
Boeing's Dreamliner has finally taken off on its maiden commercial voyage, three years later than planned.
The All Nippon Airlines (ANA) flight is carrying its first passengers from Tokyo to Hong Kong.
The Dreamliner had originally been scheduled ...
Six dead in Nepal military rescue plane crash
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- October 19, 2011
A military aircraft with six people on board which went missing in Nepal has been found to have crashed, killing all six people on board, officials say.
The plane was returning to Kathmandu carrying a medical team from a rescue mission in western ...
Botswana air crash kills European tourists
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- October 18, 2011
Seven European tourists have died in a plane crash in the Okavango Delta region of Botswana, officials say.
The Cessna 208 came down shortly after take off on Friday from the Xakanaxa airfield, in a nature reserve in the north of the country, sai...
Warning over Edinburgh Airport training exercise
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- October 11, 2011
Travellers at Edinburgh Airport are being told not to worry if they see fire engines which are taking part in a training exercise later.
The exercise to test the "effectiveness" of Edinburgh Airport's emergency plan will take place between 18:00 a...
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