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Latest newsThe US Government ordered Russian helicopters for Afghanistan
Washington, USA - The Congress ignites the debate on the choice to buy not American aircraft
The US government was hardly criticized by the some congressmen for preferring Russian helicopter over the American ones. As reported by the "Washington Post" last Saturday, the Defense Department would... more
Latest newsNATO helicopter shot down by the Taliban
Kabul, Afghanistan - Hostile fire kills 4 soldiers
A NATO helicopter was shouted down in Sangin district of Helmand province (southern Afghanistan), around 10 am (Italian time) this morning. During the attack claimed by the Taliban the four members... more
Latest newsAir India Express: the list of passengers. Among them 22 children and babies
Mangalore, India - Nine persons should have fly, but for some reasons they didn't
Following there is the flight 818's list of passengers is reported, who were on Air India Express Airline's Boeing 737/8HG aboard crashed Saturday morning at Mangalore, India, sent by Prabhakar Sharma,... more
Latest newsA-400M aircraft: Customer Nations and EADS Come to Principle Agreement
Paris, France - Additional Provision to be Booked
Customer Nations and EADS have come to a principle agreement regarding the A400M military transport aircraft with the intention to amend the original contract accordingly in the coming weeks. In this principle... more
Latest newsLufthansa pilots stopped their strike
Berlin, Germany - Just yesterday, first day of protest, more than 900 flights cancelled
Lufthansa's pilots stopped their four day-strike began at 0:00 p.m. of Sunday 21st. During first hours of protest more than 900 flights, belonging to Lufthansa and other company's subsidiaries Germanwings... more
Latest newsMunich's airport: a floor of the Terminal 2 closed for a bomb alarm
Rome, Italy - After that a laptop is resulted positive to explosive tests
Around 3:40pm of yesterday, the German Police has decided the evacuation and consequent closure of a floor of Terminal 2 in Munich's international airport, due to a bomb alarm. It was a laptop resulted... more
Latest newsThe parcel bomb, made exploded at Milan-Malpensa's airport, had trigger
Milan, Italy - No news about it had or not explosive
According to that declared by Polaria in Milan-Malpensa's airport, the parcel made exploded by bomb experts had a primer and a simple radio-receiver apparatus, but no news about of explosive. The bomb,... more
Latest newsSuspected parcel made exploded at Malpensa's airport
Milan, Italy - Found near the check-in area for flights at risk
Strict clampdown into the security checks in all airports, also in the Italian ones, after the failed attack last December 25, by a 23 year old man of Nigerian origins but British citizen Umar Farouk Adbul,... more
Latest newsAlessio Quaranta appointed as new Italian ENAC general manager
Rome, Italy - Things finally change at the top of the authority
After the Italian prime minister's recent decree the appointment of the new general manager of the Italian civil aviation authority (ENAC) has been finally confirmed. To take Silvano Manera's role who... more
Latest newsEsa, Goce's launch delayed again
Plesetsk, Russia - Countdown stopped at -7 seconds. Still waiting for information
Delayed again the launch of the Goce satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia. The take off, scheduled for 3:21 pm CET, has been stopped when the countdown was at -7 seconds. Reasons of the new... more
Latest newsAlitalia, inquired former heads for bankruptcy in office from 2000 to 2007: the Public Prosecutor in the headquarters to obtain further information
Rome, Italy - Some points on the investigation
Eight among presidents, chief operating officers and managing directors of Alitalia in office from 2000 to 2007 have been inquired for bankruptcy. The points of the investigation: a series of acquisitions... more
Latest newsAlitalia: inquired former heads for bankruptcy in office from 2000 to 2007
Rome, Italy - Eight among presidents, chief operating officers and managing directors
The Rome Public Prosecutor's office that is investigating on the Alitalia's crack, after the insolvency statement announced by the bankruptcy section of the Civil Court in last months, has hypothesized... more
Latest newsEnac closes the airport "Roma-Urbe"
Rome, Italy - For precautionary reasons
For precautionary reasons, even if there is not an immediate danger of overflowing, because of the closeness of a runway to a bend of the Tiber river, Enac (Italian civil aviation authority) disposed the... more
Latest newsRyanair emergency: Ciampino Airport closed until tomorrow morning
Rome, Italy - The airplane is still on the runway
According to the official airport sources, the airport of Rome-Ciampino will remain closed until tomorrow morning. The Ryanair airplane is still on the runway and only during the night will be removed. The... more
Latest newsFrance: an HH-3F helicopter of Italian Air Force crashed
Strasbourg, France - Seven people died
An HH-3F helicopter belonging to Italian Air Force crashed at 4:30 p.m. near Strasbourg, falling along the street to Vauncourt. It was immediately engulfed by flames. There is no survivor among the seven... more
Latest newsAugusto Fantozzi is Alitalia temporary commissioner
Rome, Italy - He is ready to be appointed
After a meeting with undersecretary Gianni Letta at palazzo Chigi, Augusto Fantozzi, whose name had already been announced as possible Alitalia temporary commissioner, defined "Realistic" the hypothesis... more
Latest newsKhartoum, cargo aircraft crashes (2): Abu Bakar Gaafar fired
Khartoum, Sudan - The chief of civil aviation has been dismissed
After four air accidents in only two months, the Chief of civil aviation, Abu Bakar Gaafar, has been dismissed by Omar al Bashir, Sudan President, after the accident occurred this morning in Khartoum,... more
Latest newsUrgent funding needed for WFP Helicopters to assist in Myanmar
Yangon, Myanmar - WFP is leading the way in moving life-saving supplies to distressed communities
A critical shortage of funds for a helicopter operation providing essential logistical support to nearly 50 aid agencies is threatening the relief effort for 2.4 million survivors of Cyclone Nargis in... more
Latest newsWho is Altero Matteoli, the new Italian Minister of Infrastructures
Rome, Italy - He will swear in today at 5:00om in front of the President of the Republic
Altero Matteoli born in Cecina, on September 8th, 1940. Accountant, company's managing, joins to Alleanza Nazionale party. MSI exponent, he was regional secretary of the party in Tuscany. City councilman... more
Latest newsAir France and Klm: withdraw an offer for Alitalia
Paris, France - We are opening new scenarios
Following the request by Alitalia to clarify the legal situation following the interruption of the negotiation between Air France-Klm and Alitalia, Air France-Klm has indicated to Alitalia that the contractual... more
Latest newsVenezuela: discovered wreck in the Los Roques archipelago, maybe the airplane of Transaven
Caracas, Venezuela - An object at 400 m depth
The Italian Foreign Minister has confirmed the discovery of a wreck that could be compatible with LET-410UVO belonging to Transaven, lost at sea on January 4th on the route between Caracas and Los Roques,... more
Latest newsAVIONEWS preview about the incident occurred in Los Roques: 18 people onboard
Rome, Italy - The document will be published on March 31st
From the official transcription of the Venezuelan Aeronautical Authority about the incident occurred in Los Roques, the pilot of the Transaven airplane - took off from the Maiquetia-Caracas airport - has... more
Latest newsProbably a fake warning about the accident of today offshore Civitavecchia
Rome, Italy - No confirmation by aeronautical organizations
It is probably a fake notice the warning of this morning about the crash in the sea offshore the city of Civitavecchia, at about 70 km North of Rome, of an unknown passenger aircraft in landing to Fiumicino... more
Latest newsUnidentified helicopter crashed in north Albania
Tirana, Albania - Unconfirmed local sources say it was a NATO helicopter
An unidentified helicopter whose radar contacts have been lost seems to have crashed in north Albania, in a mountain area near the border with Montenegro and Kosovo, according to government sources. According... more
Latest newsVenezuela (5): no survivors in the accident of Santa Barbara Airlines ATR-42
Caracas, Venezuela - Disappeared by radars probably due to bad weather conditions
They are all dead the 43 passengers and three crew members travelling aboard the airplane fallen yesterday in Venezuela. The twin-engine, an ATR-42/320 of the Venezuelan airline Santa Barbara, had disappeared... more
Latest newsVenezuela (3): localized the wreckage of the ATR-42/320 disappeared yesterday
Caracas, Venezuela - Apparently no survivors
Ramón Viñas, the President of the Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil - INAC, has stated the Santa Barbara Airlines ATR-42/320 has been localized in the area known as Los Conejos on the Andes, about 12... more
Latest newsVenezuela (2): three Mil Mi-17 helicopters participate to the search and rescue operations
Caracas, Venezuela - No positive results
Three Mil Mi-17 helicopters participate to the search and rescue operations of the missing ATR-42/320 airplane with 46 people onboard, belonging to Santa Barbara Airlines, and disappeared from the radars... more
Latest newsVenezuela: an ATR-42/320 aircraft disappears mysteriously
Caracas, Venezuela - AVIONEWS publishes the list of the passengers onboard
Another air crash in Venezuela after the tragedy of the Transaven aircraft occurred at the beginning of January and for which there are different mysteries still unsolved. A Santa Barbara Airlines ATR-42/320... more
Latest newsFinancial markets down, losses also for Alitalia
Milan, Italy - 4,36% less
The fear of the financial and economic crisis in the US, as well as the negative judgment toward President Bush's fiscal relief plan, are pushing downwards all main European stock markets, with Milan's... more
Latest newsAircraft misses runway, flights stop at Heathrow
London, United Kingdom - Also a state flight delayed
"British Airways BA-38 flight arriving from Beijing carried out an emergency landing at 12:42pm. The Heathrow southern runway has been closed, but the northern runway remains open". This is what a release... more