ALERT French air accident investigator BEA says pattern of Germanwings wreckage not consistent with mid-air explosion – @Reuters
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NEWS Touchdown! Dream Chaser to land at Ellington Field Spaceport
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Space Systems and the Houston Airport System announce a new follow-on agreement to utilize Ellington Airport’s Spaceport as a future landing site for SNC’s Uncrewed Dream Chaser® spacecraft – SNC’s solution for NASA’s Cargo Resupply needs and other critical space operations. Link
NEWS LAX. IAD. ARN. WTF? The strange stories behind airports’ three-letter abbreviations.
When booking flights online, knowing your local airport’s code can come in handy. There’s 3,000 miles’ difference between BUR (Burbank, California) and BTV (Burlington, Vermont). And you probably don’t want to end up in Venezuela just in time for Oktoberfest (Munich’s code is MUC, not MUN). Link
UPDATE #4U9525 French Presidency releases photo of Hollande and Merkel inside helicopter with above crash site
Le président @fhollande et la chancelière Angela Merkel sont arrivés à Seyne-les-Alpes où sont basés les secours pic.twitter.com/algHuJm9DS — Élysée (@Elysee) 25 Mars 2015
Germanwings flights operate as normal but under different crew and airlines. [email protected]
In a statement from Germanwings today they have said that their schedule is operating as normal, apart from one cancellation -flight #4U9525. The statement reads: 25.03. 09:15 a.m.: Germanwings with normal flight operations today/ one cancellation / eleven aircraft and crews from Lufthansa, Air Berlin and TuiFly Following the incident in France yesterday, Germanwings cancels…
Timeline: Major plane crashes in Europe [email protected]
March 24th, 2015: Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashes enroute from Barcelona to Dusseldorf in the French Alps. There was 150 people on board including 6 crew members. Investigations are continuing. July 17th, 2014: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in easternUkraine. The 298 people on board were killed on the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Investigators are yet…