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Airport expansion: Choose Heathrow or Gatwick soon, MPs urge Government

Nearly 60 MPs, including the chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee, have demanded a quickfire decision from the next government on expanding Heathrow or Gatwick airports.

Killer pilot’s vision problems

THE German co-pilot who flew 149 people to their deaths in the Alps was suffering from a “severe psychosomatic” mental illness and was seeking treatment for career-threatening problems with his vision.

How drones could stop crashes like Germanwings happening again

Drones could provide the solution to preventing future disasters similar to the Germanwings Airbus crash that took place in the Alps earlier this week. Aviation experts told Sky that having a drone system on planes would allow staff on the ground to seize control of aircraft in an emergency, so the pilots would no longer have total power. Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot on flight 4U9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, is thought to have deliberately caused the plane to crash by putting it into descent. Systems already exist which allow unmanned planes to be operated from the ground, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rip-off Easter rail to take FIVE times longer but passengers will pay the price

THOUSANDS of passengers on Britain’s busiest rail route face a rip-off at Easter with long delays from engineering works as the price of tickets rocket.