Christopher Jasper

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Christopher Jasper |Matt Oliver |Dominic Penna

Video shows Air India flight crashing moments after takeoffA Boeing 787 jet identical to the one that crashed in India made four emergency landings in less than a month earlier this year. Some of the incidents involving the American Airlines plane were linked to issues with its wing flaps – vital control surfaces now under scrutiny following the Indian crash, after phone footage appeared to show they were not properly deployed.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Christopher Jasper |Dominic Penna

Instead, the system effectively wrestled control away from the doomed planes' pilots, who were unaware of how it worked and how it might be overridden. The Air India tragedy comes days before the start of the Paris Air Show, where Boeing executives had been expected to proclaim that the firm was ready to bounce back from a more recent crisis involving the 737.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Luke Barr |Christopher Jasper

Like Mr Arora, Heathrow is also working on a proposal. But this is expected to include plans for a full-length runway. While that blueprint is enshrined in an Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS) adopted by Parliament in 2018, estimated costs are understood to have swelled from £14bn at 2014 prices to between £42bn and £63bn.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Christopher Jasper

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3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Christopher Jasper

Britons will miss out on compensation for delayed flights after Brussels adopted a rule change following complaints from airlines. Payouts that were previously triggered by delays exceeding three hours will now only be made after four hours of holdups, European transport ministers agreed. The new regulation, hammered out following a decade of discussions and bargaining over passenger compensation, will apply to all services from EU countries to the UK.