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Saturday, 13 December 2014

BBC News

• Drone flown 20ft from Heathrow jetThe moment a device believed to have been a drone came within 20ft (6m) of a plane landing at Heathrow Airport is described in a report by an air safety body.
• Airports recover after system failureAirports are returning to normal, with about 40 flights having to be rescheduled at Heathrow, the day after a computer failure at the UK's air traffic control centre.

The Independent

• Passengers and airlines left furious as London airspace closes after computer error With tens of thousands of airline passengers in the wrong places, and aviation disruption set to continue into the weekend, the air-traffic control firm Nats faces fury from airlines, passengers and the Transport Secretary about another failure of the world’s most complex air navigation system.

The Telegraph

• UK Flights Chaos: Air Traffic Control commputers using software from the 1960s A computer failure that led to southern England being closed to air traffic on Friday could be repeated because software used to control flights dates from the 1960s, it has emerged. Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, demanded answers from the air traffic control service Nats after the glitch led to “unacceptable” flight cancellations and delays for 10,000 passengers.
• Terrorism not suspected in computer glitch at air traffic controlInvestigators will now examine whether the IT failure was the result of a malicious hack or a genuine accident, sources say

Derby Telegraph

• Derby Telegraph published Rolls-Royce: Airbus vote of confidence in Derby engine despite...AIRCRAFT manufacturer Airbus has delivered a ringing endorsement and vote of confidence in Rolls-Royce .It said "it continues to believe strongly" in the future of a plane which uses Derby-built engines, following speculation that it could halt production.It follows comments by the French aviation firm's chief financial officer, who hinted that Airbus could drop the A380 super-jumbo in 2018.The engine of choice for the aircraft is the Trent 900 – designed, developed...

London Evening Standard

• Improving transport to Heathrow could cost taxpayer £2bn Heathrow today came under pressure from rival Gatwick to explain how it proposes to pay for multi-billion-pound improvements to transport links if it wins the right to expand.

Aviation Industry

• European airlines oppose Norwegian entrantThree major European carriers have made representations to the European Commission (EC), opposing plans by Norwegian Air International (NAI) to start transatlantic operations. read more
• UK flights heavily disrupted after IT failureComputer problems at NATS control centre

EIN News Subscription

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