A compilation of brief news reports for Monday, July 8, 2013.
Wikinews interviews Duncan Campbell, co-founder of wheelchair rugby
Friday, September 7, 2012
London, England — On Wednesday, Wikinews interviewed Duncan Campbell, one of the creators of wheelchair rugby.
((Laura Hale)) You’re Duncan Campbell, and you’re the founder of…
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- Duncan Campbell: One of the founders of wheelchair rugby.
((Laura Hale)) And you’re from Canada, eh?
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- Duncan Campbell: Yes, I’m from Canada, eh! (laughter)
((Laura Hale)) Winnipeg?
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- Duncan Campbell: Winnipeg, Manitoba.
((Laura Hale)) You cheer for — what’s that NHL team?
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- Duncan Campbell: I cheer for the Jets!
((Laura Hale)) What sort of Canadian are you?
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- Duncan Campbell: A Winnipeg Jets fan! (laughter)
((Laura Hale)) I don’t know anything about ice hockey. I’m a Chicago Blackhawks fan.
((Hawkeye7)) Twenty five years ago…
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- Duncan Campbell: Thirty five years ago!
((Laura Hale)) They said twenty five in the stadium…
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- Duncan Campbell: I know better.
((Hawkeye7)) So it was 1977.
((Laura Hale)) You look very young.
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- Duncan Campbell: Thank you. We won’t get into how old I am.
((Hawkeye7)) So how did you invent the sport?
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- Duncan Campbell: I’ve told this story so many times. It was a bit of a fluke in a way, but there were five of us. We were all quadriplegic, that were involved in sport, and at that time we had the Canadian games for the physically disabled. So we were all involved in sports like table tennis or racing or swimming. All individual sports. And the only team sport that was available at that time was basketball, wheelchair basketball. But as quadriplegics, with hand dysfunction, a bit of arm dysfunction, if we played, we rode the bench. We’d never get into the big games or anything like that. So we were actually going to lift weights one night, and the volunteer who helped us couldn’t make it. So we went down to the gym and we started throwing things around, and we tried a few things, and we had a volleyball. We kind of thought: “Oh! This is not bad. This is a lot of fun.” And we came up with the idea in a night. Within one night.
((Hawkeye7)) So all wheelchair rugby players are quadriplegics?
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- Duncan Campbell: Yes. All wheelchair rugby players have to have a disability of some kind in all four limbs.
((Laura Hale)) When did the classification system for wheelchair rugby kick in?
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- Duncan Campbell: It kicked in right away because there was already a classification system in place for wheelchair basketball. We knew basketball had a classification system, and we very consciously wanted to make that all people with disabilities who were quadriplegics got to play. So if you make a classification system where the people with the most disability are worth more on the floor, and you create a system where there are only so many points on the floor, then the people with more disability have to play. And what that does is create strategy. It creates a role.
((Hawkeye7)) Was that copied off wheelchair basketball?
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- Duncan Campbell: To some degree, yes.
((Laura Hale)) I assume you’re barracking for Canada. Have they had any classification issues? That made you
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- Duncan Campbell: You know, I’m not going to… I can’t get into that in a major way in that there’s always classification issues. And if you ask someone from basketball, there’s classification issues. If you ask someone from swimming… There’s always classification issues. The classifiers have the worst job in the world, because nobody’s ever satisfied with what they do. But they do the best they can. They’re smart. They know what they’re doing. If the system needs to change, the athletes will, in some way, encourage it to change.
((Laura Hale)) Do you think the countries that have better classifiers… as someone with an Australian perspective they’re really good at classification, and don’t get theirs overturned, whereas the Americans by comparison have had a number of classification challenges coming in to these games that they’ve lost. Do you think that having better classifiers makes a team better able to compete at an international level?
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- Duncan Campbell: What it does is ensures that you practice the right way. Because you know the exact classifications of your players then you’re going to lineups out there that are appropriate and fit the classification. If your classifications are wrong then you may train for six months with a lineup that becomes invalid when that classification. So you want to have good classifiers, and you want to have good classes.
((Laura Hale)) When you started in 1977, I’ve seen pictures of the early wheelchairs. I assume that you were playing in your day chair?
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- Duncan Campbell: Yes, all the time. And we had no modifications. And day chairs at that time were folding chairs. They were Earjays or Stainless. That’s all the brands there were. The biggest change in the game has been wheelchairs.
((Laura Hale)) When did you retire?
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- Duncan Campbell: I never retired. Still play. I play locally. I play in the club level all the time.
((Laura Hale)) When did you get your first rugby wheelchair?
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- Duncan Campbell: Jesus, that’s hard for me to even think about. A long time ago. I would say maybe twenty years ago.
((Laura Hale)) Were you involved in creating a special chair, as Canadians were pushing the boundaries and creating the sport?
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- Duncan Campbell: To a degree. I think everybody was. Because you wanted the chair that fit you. Because they are all super designed to an individual. Because it allows you to push better, allows you to turn better. Allows you to use your chair in better ways on the court. Like you’ve noticed that the defensive chairs are lower and longer. That’s because the people that are usually in a defensive chair have a higher disability, which means they have less balance. So they sit lower, which means they can use their arms better, and longer so they can put screens out and set ticks for those high point players who are carrying the ball. It’s very much strategic.
((Hawkeye7)) I’d noticed that in wheelchair basketball the low point player actually gets more court time…
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- Duncan Campbell: …because that allows the high point player to play. And its the same in this game. Although in this game there’s two ways to go. You can go a high-low lineup, which is potentially two high point players and two very low point players, which is what Australia does right now with Ryley Batt and the new kid Chris Bond. They have two high point players, and two 0.5 point players. It makes a very interesting scenario for, say, the US, who use four mid-point players. In that situation, all four players can carry the ball; in the Australian situation, usually only two of them can carry the ball.
((Laura Hale)) Because we know you are going soon, the all-important question: can Canada beat the Australians tonight?
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- Duncan Campbell: Of course they are. (laughter)
((Laura Hale)) Because Australians love to gamble, what’s your line on Canada?
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- Duncan Campbell: It’s not a big line! I’m not putting a big line on it! (laughter) I’d say it’s probably 6–5.
((Hawkeye7)) Is your colour commentary for the Canadian broadcast?
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- Duncan Campbell: That was for the IPC. I did the GB–US game this morning. I do the Sweden–Australia game tomorrow at two. And then I’m doing the US–France game on the last day.
((Laura Hale)) Are you happy with the level of coverage the Canadians are providing your sport?
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- Duncan Campbell: No.
((Laura Hale)) Thank you for an honest answer.
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- Duncan Campbell: Paralympic Sports TV is their own entity. They webcast, but they’re not a Canadian entity. Our Canadian television is doing… can I swear?
((Laura Hale)) Yeah! Go ahead!
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- Duncan Campbell: No! (laughter) They’re only putting on an hour a day. A highlight package, which to me is…
((Hawkeye7)) It’s better than the US.
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- Duncan Campbell: Yes, I’ve heard it’s better than the US. At the same time, it’s crap. You have here [in Great Britain], they’ve got it on 18 hours a day, and it’s got good viewership. When are we going to learn in North America that viewership is out there for it? How many times do we have to demonstrate it? We had the Paralympics in Vancouver two years ago, the Winter Paralympics, and we had crappy coverage there. There was an actual outburst demand to put the opening ceremonies on TV because they weren’t going to do it. And they had to do it, because everybody complained. So they did it, but they only did it in BC, in our home province, where they were holding it. The closing ceremonies they broadcast nationally because the demand was so high. But they still haven’t changed their attitudes.
((Laura Hale)) I have one last question: what did it mean for you when they had a Canadian flag bearer who was a wheelchair rugby player?
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- Duncan Campbell: I recruited that guy. It was fantastic. I recruited him. Found him playing hockey. And that guy has put in so much time and effort into the game. He absolutely deserves it. No better player.
((Laura Hale)) Thank you!
((Hawkeye7)) Thank you! Much appreciated.
Canada’s Beaches—East York (Ward 32) city council candidates speak
Friday, November 3, 2006
On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Beaches—East York (Ward 32). Four candidates responded to Wikinews’ requests for an interview. This ward’s candidates include Donna Braniff, Alan Burke, Sandra Bussin (incumbent), William Gallos, John Greer, John Lewis, Erica Maier, Luca Mele, and Matt Williams.
For more information on the election, read Toronto municipal election, 2006.
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Venetian blinds are a popular choice of window dressing for offices as they are durable and practical. These blinds are available in a variety of different widths, lengths and slat widths which suit large expanses of glass or small windows in boats and caravans. Venetian blinds made from aluminium are fire resistant and durable which is an aspect which needs to be considered both in the office and home environment, especially if the blind is to be used to dress a kitchen window. These blinds are ideal for the kitchen where fire resistant window coverings are necessary for your safety.
The smooth, sleek and slim line appearance of Venetian blinds offer an affordable and flexible approach to window dressings which will suit any room in a home. Although they are generally used to provide a complete window dressing many people use them rather than net curtaining for privacy against the window glass and have contemporary style curtains hung on the outside recess wall. Venetian blinds offer you the privacy and appealing touch you need to any room.
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Top exorcist says schoolgirl was kidnapped for Vatican sex ring
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Gabriel Amorth, the Roman Catholic Church’s leading exorcist, has suggested missing schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi was kidnapped for sexual abuse at orgies attended by foreign diplomats and arranged by Vatican police. Orlandi was fifteen when she vanished in 1983.
Amorth, 85, who was appointed by the late Pope John Paul II, makes his remarks as Italian police try to determine if bones buried near the body of a mobster belong to Orlandi. Anonymous claims have suggested the tomb of Enrico “Renatino” De Pedis contains clues to her disappearance.
Investigators are examining bones removed from his burial site in the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare. Buried in a nearby crypt, the bones are thought to be centuries old but forensic tests are ongoing. One theory is Pedis kidnapped Orlandi to press Vatican officials over a financial dispute, with his onetime lover claiming her body was disposed of in a cement mixer.
Amorth refutes this explanation, and also an alleged “international dimension”; another theory is that the kidnapping was to try and secure freedom for Mehmet Ali Agca of Turkey, who shot at the pope in 1981. Orlandi’s vanishing “was a crime with a sexual motive” says Amorth. “Parties were organised, with a Vatican gendarme [policeman] acting as the ‘recruiter’ of the girls.”
He further told La Stampa “The network involved diplomatic personnel from a foreign embassy to the Holy See. I believe Emanuela ended up a victim of this circle”. “It has already previously been stated by [the late] monsignor Simeone Duca, an archivist at the Vatican, who was asked to recruit girls for parties with the help of the Vatican gendarmes.”
Orlandi has not been seen since she set off from the family apartment in the Vatican City, heading for a Rome music lesson. Orlandi’s father worked for the Holy See. Amorth is a controversial priest who lays claim to thousands of exorcisms and has criticised activities such as yoga and children reading Harry Potter books as spiritually harmful.
“No H5N1 virus” found in blood tests of suspected human Bird Flu cluster
Thursday, August 3, 2006
Preliminary tests performed on samples taken from six villagers in the Kabanjahe District of Sumatra in Indonesia have tested negative for the deadly H5N1 Avian Flu virus.
“Investigations by the ministry of health lab and Namru, too, on August 2 and 3 on all specimens collected from the suspected cases in Kabanjahe district came up negative,” said Indonesia’s health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari.
Final test results are expected in at least seven days from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. “The World Health Organization (WHO) requires human samples to be sent to one of WHO’s six collaborative centres. So, we only need to send them to CDC Atlanta as it has worked with the U.S. NAMRU-2 lab here,” added Supari.
Supari also stated that all individuals are suffering from the “common flu.”
New fossils from 10 million year old ape found in Ethiopia
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Researchers say that new, ten million-year-old fossils found in Ethiopia, prove that the theory that humans may have evolved from a species of great apes eight million years ago, may not be true, but that humans may have split from apes as long as 10.5 million years ago.
At least nine fossilized teeth, one canine tooth and eight molars, of a previously unknown species of apes found in Africa were discovered by a team of researchers from Ethiopia and Japan who then compared the 3-D make up of the teeth to other fossils that date back as far as 8 million years and found that the fossils are likely a “direct ancestor” of apes currently living in Africa and that the new ape fossils were that of a species of gorilla who ate mostly plants high in fiber.
Current fossils and research say that the evolutionary split from apes to humans occurred at least eight million years ago. The new fossils say that the split may have happened as long as 10.5 million years ago.
“Based on this fossil, that means the split is much earlier than has been anticipated by the molecular evidence. That means everything has to be put back,” said researcher at the Rift Valley Research Service in Ethiopia and a co-author of the study, Berhane Asfaw.
Despite the finds, other researchers are not convinced that the findings are correct.
“It is stretching the evidence to base a time scale for the evolution of the great apes on this new fossil. These structures appear on at least three independent lineages of apes, including gorillas, and they could relate to a dietary shift rather than indicating a new genetic trait,” said a Professor at the London Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom, Peter Andrews who also added, “but the fossil evidence for the evolution of our closest living relatives, the great apes, is almost non-existent.
Researchers have named the newly discovered species Cororapithecus abyssinicus whose remains were found in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, the same place where the remains of Lucy were discovered in 1974.
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Let’s be honest, at one time or another throughout your life – and most likely on many occasions – your mother has baked or purchased you a cake. Whether it was for your birthday or to commemorate another special occasion, cake has taken center stage at many of our family festivities. So it stands to reason that to celebrate our mothers – those masterful cake deliverers for the rest of us – that we should include a cake to mark Mother’s Day.
In fact, Mother’s Day cakes have long been a part of showing our mothers how much we care about them. While the origins of Mother’s Day differ from country to country, in England it began with Mothering Sunday – a holiday celebrated on the fourth Sunday during Lent and often marked with the baking of Mothering Cakes.
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Mother’s Day cakes today come in every shape, size, and flavor. And with access to every retail possibility, we have the option of purchasing anything we want. From pre-made cakes at the grocery store, to pre-ordered cakes from your favorite bakery, Mother’s Day cakes should reflect the personality and unique style of your mother. And – most importantly it should fit her taste. So if she likes vanilla but the rest of the family likes chocolate – it should be vanilla all the way.
For moms who are far away there’s always the option of purchasing Mother’s Day cakes through the Internet; they are personalized, packaged beautifully, and shipped the same day for arrival in time for the big day. It’s a wonderful way to let your mother know you’re thinking about her regardless of how far apart you are.
For those bakers among us, baking Mother’s Day cakes from scratch (or even from the box – we won’t tell!) can be a wonderful way to show mom how much you love her.
No matter how you choose to honor your mother on Mother’s Day – whether it’s flowers, candy, a beautiful card, or Mother’s Day cakes – the important thing is that you do honor her; for who she is and all she’s done.
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Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau
Thursday, August 16, 2007
The name Robert Cailliau may not ring a bell to the general public, but his invention is the reason why you are reading this: Dr. Cailliau together with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible so it could grow from an academic tool to a mass communication medium. Last January Dr. Cailliau retired from CERN, the European particle physics lab where the WWW emerged.
Wikinews offered the engineer a virtual beer from his native country Belgium, and conducted an e-mail interview with him (which started about three weeks ago) about the history and the future of the web and his life and work.
Wikinews: At the start of this interview, we would like to offer you a fresh pint on a terrace, but since this is an e-mail interview, we will limit ourselves to a virtual beer, which you can enjoy here.
Robert Cailliau: Yes, I myself once (at the 2nd international WWW Conference, Chicago) said that there is no such thing as a virtual beer: people will still want to sit together. Anyway, here we go.
Category:Iain Macdonald (Wikinewsie)/Aviation
- Aviation articles by Wikinewsie Iain Macdonald.
- Power firm helicopter strikes cables, crashes near Fairfield, California
- Germany bans Mahan Air of Iran, citing ‘security’
- Lion Air disaster: Crashed jet’s voice recorder recovered from Java Sea
- Iranian cargo plane crashes into Karaj houses
- Police warn new drone owners to obey law after disruption at UK’s Gatwick Airport
- Rescue helicopter crash kills six in Abruzzo, Italy
- UK Civil Aviation Authority issues update on Shoreham crash response
- Nigerian jet attacks refugee camp, killing dozens
- Fighter jet crashes during Children’s Day airshow in Thailand
- Plane carrying 92 crashes into Black Sea near Sochi
- Hijackers divert Libyan passenger jet to Malta
- Pakistan International Airlines sacrifices goat, resumes ATR flights
- Judge rules Air Canada Flight 624 victims can sue Transport Canada
- PIA flight crashes near Havelian, Pakistan
- Indonesian police plane crashes near Batam, fifteen missing
- Investigators blame pilot error for AirAsia crash into Java Sea
- New Polish government takes down findings on Russian air disaster
- Pakistani female fighter pilot Marium Mukhtiar dies in jet crash
- Investigators blame pilot error for deadly jet crash near Boston
- Airshow collision kills one in Dittingen, Switzerland
- Vintage plane crashes into road during Shoreham Airshow in England
- Planes carrying parachutists collide, crash in Slovakia
- Indian army helicopter crash kills two in Jammu and Kashmir
- Divers retrieve 100th corpse from Java Sea jet crash
- Taipei plane crash toll reaches 40
- AirAsia disaster: Bodies, wreckage found
- AirAsia jet vanishes over Indonesia, 162 missing
- Inquiry finds proper maintenance might have prevented 2009 North Sea helicopter disaster
- Ryanair sue Associated Newspapers, Mirror Group
- Ryanair sack, sue pilot over participation in safety documentary
- Ryanair threaten legal action after documentary on fuel policy, safety
- US Marine Corps blame deadly Morocco Osprey plane crash on pilots
- Kenyan helicopter crash kills security minister
- Indonesians retrieve missing recorder from crashed Russian jet
- Report blames New Zealand skydive plane crash that killed nine on overloading
- Russian passenger jet crashes on Indonesian demonstration flight
- European Commission clears British Airways owner IAG to buy bmi from Lufthansa
- US Air Force upgrades F-22 oxygen system after deadly crash
- Cypriot court clears all of wrongdoing in Greek air disaster
- Boeing rolls out first 787 Dreamliner to go into service
- Air France, pilots union, victims group criticise transatlantic disaster probe
- South Korean troops mistakenly attack passenger jet
- 27 believed dead in Indonesian plane crash
- Russian police say Moscow airport bomber identified
- ‘Unacceptable’ and ‘without foundation’: Poland rejects Russian air crash report
- Serb pilots defend colleague in Air India Express disaster
- Investigation into US Airways river ditching in New York completed
- Reports issued after jets collided twice in same spot at UK airport
- Final report blames London passenger jet crash on ice
- Concorde crash trial begins
- Iranian air politician blames pilot error for yesterday’s jet crash
- US charges homeless man after plane stolen and crashed in Maryland
- German jet bound for US searched in Iceland after suitcase loaded without owner
- Mexican helicopter crash leaves soldier dead
- Indonesian court overturns Garuda pilot’s conviction over air disaster
- Zimbabwean cargo plane crashes in Shanghai; three dead
- Italian Air Force transport wreck kills five
- UK lawyer comments on court case against Boeing over London jet crash
- Victims of London jetliner crash sue Boeing
- Family seeks prosecution over loss of UK Nimrod jet in Afghanistan
- British Airways and Iberia agree to merge
- At least nine missing after Russian military plane crashes into Pacific
- Search continues for nine missing after midair collision off California
- Russian military cargo jet crash kills eleven in Siberia
- Nine missing after US Coast Guard plane and Navy helicopter collide
- Jet flies 150 miles past destination in US; pilots say they were distracted
- Airliner crash wounds four in Durban, South Africa
- Cypriot court begins Greek air disaster trial
- Japan blames design, maintenance for explosion on China Airlines jet
- Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi released on compassionate grounds
- Lockerbie bombing appeal dropped
- Australian receives bravery award for rescues in Indonesian air disaster
- Fighter jets collide, crash into houses near Moscow
- Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi moves to drop Lockerbie bombing appeal
- Iranian passenger jet’s wheel catches fire
- Tourist plane crash in Papua New Guinea leaves thirteen dead
- UK’s BAA forced to sell three airports
- Scotland denies bail to terminally ill man convicted of Lockerbie bombing
- Pilot error blamed for July crash of Aria Air Flight 1525 in Iran
- Plane carrying sixteen people vanishes over Papua, Indonesia
- Airbus offers funding to search for black boxes from Air France disaster
- 20 years on: Sioux City, Iowa remembers crash landing that killed 111
- Two separate fighter jet crashes kill two, injure two in Afghanistan
- Helicopter crash kills sixteen at NATO base in Afghanistan
- U.S. investigators probe in-flight hole in passenger jet
- Four Indonesian airlines allowed back into Europe; Zambia, Kazakhstan banned
- Brazil ceases hunt for bodies from Air France crash
- Airliner catches fire at Indonesian airport
- Garuda Indonesia increases flights, fleet; may buy rival
- False dawn for Air France flight; debris not from crash, search continues
- US investigators probe close call on North Carolina runway
- Spanish general, two other officials jailed for false IDs after air disaster
- Indonesian court jails Garuda pilot over air disaster
- Pilots in 16-death crash jailed for praying instead of flying
- New Zealand pilots receive bravery awards for foiling airliner hijack
- US, UK investigators seek 777 engine redesign to stop repeat of London jet crash
- Schiphol airliner crash blamed on altimeter failure, pilot error
- Marine jet crash into San Diego house attributed to string of errors
- Fatal US Army helicopter collision in Iraq blamed on enemy fire
- Brazil’s Embraer plans to cut around 4,200 jobs
- Virgin Atlantic jet fire investigation finds faulty wiring in A340 fleet
- Six indicted over jet crash at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport
- Man arrested in India after mid-air hijack threat on domestic flight
- British Airways plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 50% by 2050
- US Airways jet recovered from Hudson River
- Mount Everest plane crash blamed on pilot error
- Cyprus charges five over 2005 air crash that killed 121
- 20 years on: Lockerbie victims’ group head talks to Wikinews
- US, UK investigators collaborating after US 777 incident similar to London crash
- Brazil blames human error for 2006 midair airliner collision
- NTSB continues investigation of near-collision in Pennsylvania, United States
- Turbulence likely cause of Mexico jet crash that killed ministers
- Bomb ruled out in Mexico plane crash that killed twelve
- Afghan president Hamid Karzai opens new terminal at Kabul International Airport
- Cyprus to charge five over 2005 plane crash that killed 121
- India’s Jet Airways posts biggest quarterly loss in three years
- Indian aviation sector hit by financial trouble; domestic traffic at five-year low
- Spanish airline LTE suspends all flights
- Spanair mechanics to be questioned under criminal suspicion over Flight 5022 crash
- Oscar Diös tells Wikinews about his hostel within a Boeing 747
- Preliminary report released on Spanair disaster that killed 154
- Dozens injured by sudden change in altitude on Qantas jet
- Soldier dies as military helicopters collide in Iraq
- No evidence of engine fire at Aeroflot-Nord Flight 821 crash site
- Indonesian parliament approves privatising of three major state firms
- Controversy after leak of preliminary report into Spanair disaster
- Researcher claims unmarked grave contains 1950 Lake Michigan plane crash victims
- Interim report blames ice for British Airways 777 crash in London
- Service held in Nova Scotia on tenth anniversary of Swissair crash that killed 229
- UK government sued over deaths in 2006 Nimrod crash in Afghanistan
- Four British Airways executives charged with price fixing
- Unprecedented review to be held on Qantas after third emergency in two weeks
- British Airways enters merger talks with Iberia
- EU maintains ban on Indonesian airlines amid accusations of political motivation
- US military confirms three deaths after B-52 crash off Guam
- One-Two-Go Airlines cease operating over fuel costs as legal action begins over September air disaster
- US FAA to make airliner fuel tank inertion mandatory over 1996 air disaster
- British Airways give medals to Flight 38’s crew
- Honduran capital’s main airport reopens six weeks after jetliner crash
- Death toll in Arizona helicopter collision at seven as only survivor dies
- Continental Airlines to face charges over Air France Concorde disaster
- Nine oil workers die as helicopter crashes in Siberia
- Boeing 767 cargo plane seriously damaged by fire at San Francisco
- Cargo plane crashes near Khartoum; at least four dead
- Cargo plane crash in Sudan leaves seven dead with one survivor
- Air safety group says airport was operating illegally without license when Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashed
- Sudan Airways grounded
- Peacekeeping helicopter crash kills four in Bosnia
- Report finds LOT Airlines plane was lost over London due to pilot error
- Indonesian police hand over Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 report to prosecutors
- US B-2 bomber crash in Guam caused by moisture on sensors
- Silverjet ceases operations and enters administration
- Nine killed as Russian cargo plane crashes in Siberia
- Boeing pushes back 737 replacement development
- Airliner hijacker found working for British Airways
- Five of six accused over 9/11 to be tried; charges against ’20th hijacker’ dropped
- British Airways Flight 38 suffered low fuel pressure; investigation continues
- Ex-head of Qantas freight operations in US jailed for price fixing
- Search for Brazilian plane with four UK passengers called off after seven days
- Spectator killed and 10 injured in German airshow crash
- Japan Airlines fined US$110 million for price fixing
- Indonesia angered as nation’s airlines all remain banned in EU airspace
- All confirmed dead on Kata Air An-32, Moldova asks for Russian investigatory help
- Airbus parent EADS wins £13 billion UK RAF airtanker contract
- Final report blames instrument failure for Adam Air Flight 574 disaster
- Indonesia grounds Adam Air; may be permanently shut down in three months
- Adam Air hits severe financial problems; may be shut down in three weeks
- Alitalia conditionally accepts joint bid by Air France and KLM
- One year on: IFALPA’s representative to ICAO, pilot and lawyer on ongoing prosecution of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 pilot
- Adam Air may be shut down after string of accidents
- Five injured as Adam Air 737 overruns Batam island runway
- Northrop Grumman and Airbus parent EADS defeat Boeing for $40 billion US airtanker contract
- Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 pilot released on bail
- Concern as Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 pilot arrested and charged
- British Airways Flight 38 investigation focuses on fuel system
- 16-year-old arrested over alleged plot to hijack US airliner
- 2007 was particularly good year for aviation safety
- No injuries after Antarctica research station support plane crashes
- Indian Air Force jet catches fire and crashes after refuelling at Biju Patnaik Airport
- Cathal Ryan, early board member and son of co-founder of Irish flag carrier Ryanair, dies at 48
- Indonesia’s transport minister tells airlines not to buy European aircraft due to EU ban
- Indonesian air industry signs safety deal ahead of EU ban review
- Australia completes inquest for victims of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200
- Five injured as Mandala Airlines 737 overshoots runway in Malang, Indonesia
- Calls made for prosecution in light of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 report
- Four killed as helicopter escorting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf crashes
- Dozens killed in Congo plane crash, transport minister fired
- Death toll in One-Two-Go crash reaches 90
- American Airlines MD-80 engine fire prompts emergency landing
- Scandinavian Airlines System landing gear failures prompt grounding of Bombardier Q400s
- Aircraft crashes during mock dogfight at Shoreham Airshow, United Kingdom
- Finland scrambles fighter jet to respond to Russian aircraft
- Preliminary report sheds light on SAS landing gear incident
- Adam Air ticket sales revive after post-crash slump
- Comair Flight 5191 co-pilot, pilot’s widow sue FAA, airport, chart manufacturer
- Four Boeing 737’s found with similar fault to China Airlines plane; inspection deadline shortened
- Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable cruise missile
- Black boxes retrieved from lost Indonesian airliner after eight months
- EU bans all Indonesian airlines as well as several from Russia, Ukraine and Angola
- Indonesia shuts down 4 airlines and grounds 5 others over safety concerns
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