A major hurdle to the UK-brokered sale of 72 Eurofighter Typhoons to Saudi Arabia has been removed, after the UK Serious Fraud Office abandoned an investigation into alleged false accounting during previous arms deals between the countries.
The move follows calls from the Saudi government and UK industry to wrap up the inquiry or present charges.
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.
