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Gatwick and Heathrow will invest millions in anti-drone equipment
Gatwick and Heathrow will spend millions of pounds defending their airfields from drone disruption, following the events at Gatwick just before Christmas.
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Gatwick Airport partially re-opens amid drone woes
Gatwick Airport's runway partly re-opens after more than 33 hours of being closed, which left more than 350,000 passengers stranded.
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Annual crash and rescue exercise successfully conducted at HKIA
The annual crash and rescue exercise at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) was successfully completed on Friday 9 November, and took a total of five hours, to ensure the safety of everyone involved in the incident.
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Divers, sonar and drones join the search for the Lion Air black box
Following the crash of the Lion Air plane into the sea north of Jakarta, search efforts for missing passengers and flight information contained on the black box, continue.
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Whitepaper: Airport infrastructure challenges in the 21st century
The aviation industry and the demands placed upon airports are changing - fast...
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Middle East Safety Summit addresses industry challenges
The fourth Middle East Safety Summit, organised by the General Civil Aviation Authority in cooperation with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), discussed aviation safety in the Middle East and challenges posed to the industry.
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Biometrics, the new normal: How to implement an end-to-end Seamless Flow programme
3 October 2018 | By Vision-box
Lining up and waiting at every airport chokepoint is a thing of the past. Contactless identity management via biometrics has become the essence of modern passenger experience. A seamless end-to-end journey where your face is your passport is core to the aviation digital transformation.
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Air Niugini plane missed runway at Chuuk International Airport
Air Nugini plane has overshot the runway at Chuuk International Airport and has sunk in the lagoon which is just past the airport, all passengers and crew were rescued, with no fatalities. One still remains unaccounted for.
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MIAL inducts first advanced emergency passenger evacuation vehicle
The passenger evacuation vehicle ladder can be extended up to a maximum height of 8.3 meters and the escape stairs have high evacuation load capacity of approximately 115 people at once.
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Typhoon Jebi grounds flights at Kansai International Airport
Typhoon Jebi, the worst storm to hit Japan in 25 years, has flooded the runways at Kansai International and stranded nearly 3,000 passengers.
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Sochi Airport reacts quickly to plane incident which leaves 18 injured
Bad weather caused a plane to roll off the runway and catch fire, but quick reaction by airport teams extinguished the fire in eight minutes and passengers and crew evacuated in just 17.
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Kenya clashes with Ethiopia amid claims of unsafe air traffic control
Kenya Air Traffic Controllers Association claim that Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority were operating flights with air traffic controllers that were not currently validated. True, or just malicious hearsay?
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Pilot vacation issues: Putting the spotlight on planning technology
If you’ve ever travelled in Europe, odds are you’re familiar with Ryanair. The Ireland-based low cost carrier is ubiquitous with inexpensive flights connecting key locations across the region. However, the growing level of competition in the European low-cost market means that efficiency is vital to maintaining profitability. With this past…
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Security: The hidden ‘insider’ threat of the aviation sector
An airport is a complex entity, with multiple occupants, a transient population and time-critical operations. Such an environment is vulnerable to a variety of different risks and threats. But while external threats are significant, an issue of growing concern is that of the ‘insider threat’. David BaMaung, Director of Strategic…
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Flight AM2431 from Durango to Mexico City has crashed shortly after take-off
A plane hit bad weather and has crashed as the plane "fell" from the sky with an estimated 85 people injured, two, including the pilot, critically so.
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