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Every Christmas Day for the last 76 years, a priest has taken a chalice of water onto the quiet airfield at Dublin Airport and blessed the planes. But that tradition is up in the air due to new security protocols at the busy international hub. “Due to recent changes to security protocols, airside access is now restricted to airport operations only,” a spokesperson for DAA, the airport’s operator, tells Euronews Travel. “For this reason, non-operational activities can no longer be facilitated airside. We are currently working on a new approach to facilitating the traditional Christmas blessing ...
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A United Airlines jetliner bound for Japan made an emergency landing in Los Angeles on Thursday after losing a tyre while taking off from San Francisco. Video shows the plane losing one of the six tyres on its left-side main landing gear assembly seconds after leaving the ground. The tyre landed in an employee parking lot at San Francisco International Airport, where it smashed into a car and shattered its back window before breaking through a fence and coming to stop. The flight was carrying 235 passengers and a crew of 14. No injuries were reported. Fire engines stood by at Los Angeles Inter...
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Flying in Europe is at its safest level since records began, according to new research from the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Findings in their 2023 annual safety report for global aviation show that, in Europe alone, the ‘all accident’ rate improved from 0.98 per million sectors in 2022 down to 0.48 accidents in 2023. That statistic is significantly better than the continent’s 5-year average of 0.77 accidents per million. Better still, Europe has had a fatality risk of zero since 2018. Interestingly, the largest proportion of recorded accidents were down to landing gear coll...
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The US Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it's giving aircraft company Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan to fix quality problems and meet safety standards for building planes after a panel blew off a brand-new Boeing 737 Max jet last month. The agency said the directive followed all-day meetings on Tuesday with top Boeing officials at FAA headquarters in Washington. “Boeing must commit to real and profound improvements,” said FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker. “Making foundational change will require a sustained effort from Boeing’s leadership, and we are going to hold them accou...
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