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• Clement Charpentreau
Two German Air Force Eurofighters scrambled on Oct. 13 after a Corendon Airlines Europe Boeing 737-800 flying from Corfu to Nuremberg transmitted a hijacking or emergency alert. The aircraft landed safely; the airline attributed the alert to a radio malfunction, and police found no danger after a temporary airport shutdown.
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Two German Air Force Eurofighters scrambled on Oct. 13 after a Corendon Airlines Europe Boeing 737-800 flying from Corfu to Nuremberg transmitted a hijacking or emergency alert. The aircraft landed safely; the airline attributed the alert to a radio malfunction, and police found no danger after a temporary airport shutdown.
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Israeli security services evacuated passengers from a Delta Air Lines A330-900neo after it arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport from New York on Oct. 13. Authorities moved the aircraft to an isolated area for inspection; the threat was described in one report as a hoax, but the supplied coverage does not provide inspection findings or details on operational disruption.
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A Melbourne Islamic center leader says he never met the flydubai co-pilot accused by UAE prosecutors of attacking the aircraft’s captain in an alleged hijacking attempt. Prosecutors have linked the co-pilot to the center; the imam denies any association and says he has consistently preached peace.
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A Boeing 767 Freighter operated by 21 Air for Amazon landed long and fast after an approach to Runway 30 at Miami International Airport on Sept. 6. The article examines a wind check that was not made before the overrun, against a backdrop of facts established in the weeks after the event.
The Army’s investigation found that broken communications, erroneous altimeter readings, inadequate training and monitoring, and bright local lighting contributed to the UH-60L helicopter’s collision with a commercial airplane in the Washington area. The report identifies failures across operations and oversight, rather than a single cause.
Australian authorities are investigating a near miss last week between an arriving Jetstar flight and a van at Townsville Airport in Queensland. The incident adds to a series of recent domestic safety events, though no further details about the aircraft, vehicle or investigation were provided.
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A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 carrying as many as 276 passengers descended steeply over the North Atlantic after its main cockpit windscreen cracked at about 37,000 feet. The incident occurred early Saturday; the available report does not specify the aircraft’s destination, the cause of the crack or whether anyone was injured.
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