Shocking footage has emerged from inside the cabin of an Emirates jet seconds before it exploded into a fireball after crash-landing at Dubai’s international airport. Screams of terrified passengers can be heard as the cabin crew forced open the emergency exit doors, desperately trying to get all 300 people on …
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Punch- The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria on Wednesday said that Saudi Arabian aviation authorities disqualified three Nigerian carriers from transporting Nigerian pilgrims for the 2016 Hajj. Alhaji Mohammadu Goni, Head of Aviation of NAHCON, who made this known at the commission’s Headquarters in Abuja, listed the affected airlines as …
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Cameroon Journal, Yaounde – Flight restriction on Cameroon Airline Corporation, Camair-Co, from flying European airspace has been lifted, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o, Minister of Transport, announced in a communiqué signed Monday August 1. However, the minister had earlier announced that the national carrier’s inability to fly to European countries was …
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The annual Mara Migration is considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Over two million animals migrate from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park into Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve in search of pastures. During the migration season, thousands of tourists flock the Mara to witness this spectacular movement of the …
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Emirates Flight Training Academy, the new world class flight training facility developed by Emirates airline to respond to the industry’s growing need for pilots, has signed an agreement with Boeing under which both organisations will collaborate on a comprehensive training curriculum and software infrastructure to support Academy operations. Emirates …
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According to the DAILY SABAH, German flag carrier Lufthansa Tuesday warned that “horrific” terror attacks in Europe were having a “tangible impact” on business, with second-quarter profits down 17 percent. Net profits between April and June came in at 437 million euros ($488 million), the group said, slightly below analysts’ …
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WASHINGTON — As Virgin Galactic prepares to resume testing of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane, the company announced Aug. 1 that it has received a launch license for those tests from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The license, dated July 29, covers test flights of SpaceShipTwo from the Mojave Air and …
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The National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) is to construct a N2.5 billion state-of-the-art headquarters at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos. A post by the National President , NAAPE,Isaac Balami’s on his face book wall, informed that the ground breaking of the edifice …
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The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has wade in and arrested a level 6 officer, of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Christy Olabode for allegedly diverting and stealing N70 million belonging to the agency. This is just as FAAN said that it has suspended Olabode, the staff …
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Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Arik Air, has won another accolade with the award of West African Airline of the Year bestowed on it at the Ghana Aviation Awards 2016 held in Accra on Friday, July 29, 2016. The award, according to Ghana Aviation Awards Events Director, Richard Abbey Jnr., was …
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