In early August UK police foiled what it believes could have been the largest terrorist attack against the West, involving up to 12 aircraft.
Flight International experts look at the aftermath of the early August foiled terrorist plot and its impact on aviation in a series of special articles.Click below to read how the terror plot affected business aviation, air traffic management and shares, or read more on liquid explosives and previous sabotage attempts.
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Source: Flight International
Russian carrier Ural Airlines appears to have abandoned ambitions to rescue the Airbus A320 which landed in a field after running low on fuel during a diversion. The carrier has told the Izvestia newspaper that it considered several options for retrieving the twinjet after it touched down on rough ground ...
Italian investigators have attributed a Boeing 737-800’s damaging tail-strike at Naples to the captain’s belated attempt to avoid a hard landing, after the first officer initiated an early flare. The Blue Air aircraft, arriving from Bucharest on 6 May 2022, had been conducting the ILS approach to runway 24. Its ...
The service has ordered mandatory safety training for its rotary-wing aviation forces, after 12 non-combat crashes in the past six months resulted in 10 fatalities.
