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Families of victims of an airliner crash in Brazil have arrived at a morgue and are working with forensics experts to identify the remains of the 62 people killed in the accident. Local authorities said the bodies of the pilot, Danilo Santos Romano, and his co-pilot, Humberto de Campos Alencar e Silva, were the first to be identified by experts. The Sao Paulo state government said in a statement on Saturday evening that the remains of all the victims had been recovered. There were 34 male and 28 female bodies in the wreckage, it said. The ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop operated by Brazilian airl...
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A Portuguese citizen is among the 61 people who died in the crash of an aeroplane in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday. The information was published by the Lusa news agency, quoting a source from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), which in turn confirmed the death of the Portuguese citizen to Euronews. "The MFA regrets what happened and is in contact with the victim's relatives to find out more information and provide all possible support," the source said over the phone, referring more information to the X social network where he posted the following tweet: Gracinda was a profess...
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A domestic plane crashed Wednesday while taking off from the airport serving Nepal's capital, killing 18 people and injuring a pilot who was the lone survivor. Police official Basanta Rajauri said authorities have pulled out all 18 bodies. The only survivor was the pilot, who was taken to Kathmandu Medical College Hospital for treatment. The pilot has injuries to the eyes but is not in any danger, a doctor at the hospital said. The airline manifest showed there were two pilots and 17 passengers on board, among them there was only one female. The crew and 16 passengers were Nepali nationals wit...
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Multiple Romanian Tarom Airlines flights were cancelled on Monday after pilots reported being sick en masse, causing frustration and anxiety among the passengers at the Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest. The airline union has not announced a labour dispute, but many internal voices indicated that a strike announcement is possible. The alleged protest also caused the cancellation of the flight that was supposed to take the foreign affairs and defence ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence to the NATO summit in Washington. "We are from Spain. We have been waiting since 5 am to ta...
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Last June, France formally introduced a ban on domestic short-haul flights in an effort to bring down carbon emissions. In theory, the regulation prohibits flights where a rail alternative under 2.5 hours exists. Critics at the time said it didn’t go quite far enough, targeting very few routes and not including connecting flights. The aviation industry has fought back claiming the regulation is unfair. So, just over a year after it was introduced, what impact has France’s short-haul domestic flight ban had so far? Has France’s domestic flight ban cut emissions?Before the ban’s introduction, th...
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Travellers can now take a short international flight in an electric aircraft from Maastricht Aachen Airport in the Netherlands. It is a two-month trial of "The Electrifly project" in which people can fly without emissions between the airports of Maastricht, Liège, and Aachen (Merzbrück). These are flights of between 30 and 50 kilometres and it is expected that initially, mainly business people will use them. According to Jonas van Stekelenburg, the flight gives no emissions and less noise. "That is of course the dream everyone has," says Stekelenburg. Only one passenger can fit on the plane ne...
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A search operation is underway after a military plane carrying Malawi's vice president went missing, according to the president’s office. The jet was carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima along with nine others, and left the country’s capital, Lilongwe, on Monday morning. Aviation authorities lost contact with the plane when it ‘went off radar’, according to a statement from Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera's office. Chakwera’s office said he ordered a search operation and cancelled a trip to the Bahamas. The statement said: ‘All efforts to make contact with the aircraft since ...
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Poland’s air force has scrambled jets to protect the country's airspace from Russian missiles targeting western Ukraine. Airforce patrols were conducted in southeast Poland, which borders war-torn Ukraine. Poland's Operational Command announced the patrols had ended on Sunday. "Due to the end of long-range missile strikes of the Russian Federation on targets in the western part of Ukraine, the operation of military aviation in Polish airspace has been ended and the deployed forces and resources have returned to standard operational activities," it wrote on X. "The #PolishArmy monitors the situ...
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By Archis Chowdhury An image of an underwater airplane wreckage is viral with the claim that it is the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which has been been found without a human skeleton despite carrying 239 people on board. BOOM found this claim to be false; according to our fact-check, the viral image shows the wreckage of an abandoned Lockheed Martin L1011 Tristar airplane which reportedly sunk in 2019 to be colonised by marine life and attract divers. Furthermore, while there has been reported discovery of marine debris that was linked to the missing MH370 flight, t...
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A woman has been arrested for assault after she punched and spat on a man on a Delta Airline flight. The woman was identified as Patricia Cornwall, 51, of Los Angeles. The dispute began on Thursday over Cornwall’s unruly behavior on Flight 2790 from Tampa, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia, including her refusal to wear a mask. According to reports, Cornwall had attempted to return to her seat from the restroom, but was blocked by the beverage service cart in the aisle. She asked the flight attendant to help her find her seat, and the flight attendant requested that she wait in an available seat unt...
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