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Sunday, 01 March 2015

BBC News

• Airport power failure investigatedAn investigation is under way after a power failure left hundreds of passengers stranded at East Midlands Airport.
• Bombardier launches test flightBombardier Inc launches test flight of its CS300 jet.

The Guardian

• Weather chaos in Texas and Oklahoma forces 1,600 flight cancellationsThousands of air travelers stranded as weather service issues advisoryDrivers urged to stay off highways as freezing rain coats roadsFreezing rain that coated parts of Texas and Oklahoma for the second consecutive day left highways slick and forced the cancellation of another 1,000 flights Saturday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, one of the nation’s biggest airline hubs.The Saturday chaos was on top of about 600 flights nixed Friday, forcing about 5,000 travelers to spend the night at the airport, spokesman David Magana said. The airport provided cots, blankets and toiletries to th...
• 'Nobody cares any more': the relatives who went looking for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370It’s nearly a year since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished – and despite an international rescue operation, no trace of it has emerged. Could relatives of the missing passengers solve modern aviation’s biggest mystery for themselves?A year ago, on 8 March 2014, an American schoolteacher named Sarah Bajc sat in her Beijing apartment waiting for the plane carrying her boyfriend Philip to land. Her anxiety was growing; there had been sketchy news reports that a plane had vanished from radar screens, so she was hitting refresh on a flight-tracker website. Refresh. Delayed. Refresh. Delayed. ...

The Telegraph

• Female pilot and nurse decorated for life-saving Afghan heroismMaj Laura Nicholson has received the Distinguished Flying Cross for twice calmly taking her Chinook into heavy fire to pick up casualties, while Sqn Ldr Charlotte Thompson-Edgar received the Associate of the Royal Red Cross for life-saving work in six tours of Afghanistan.

Mail Online

• JetBlue tweet 'Oh, the Bluemanity,' referencing the Hindenburg disaster JetBlue have been fiercely criticised after Tweeting an ill-advised pun referencing the Hindenburg disaster. The airline then proceeded to send messages of apology to all who had contacted them.
• Caravan park transforms grounded helicopter into holiday home The 1977 Westland Lynx XZ262 was bought by bosses at Ream Hills Holiday Park in Preston, Lancashire, and redesigned to become fit for a family holiday.
• British Airways denies 'paying £1m compensation to staff over spying claims' The airline allegedly accessed the private emails and phone messages of 10 members of staff, some of whom were union officials, in 2011 when it faced renewed industrial action.
• Plague of the voyeur drones: Flying toy cameras spark 'peeping Tom' complaints with police powerless to stop them  The Mail on Sunday can reveal that at least a dozen incidents involving unmanned aircraft have been reported since Christmas when thousands of people received the gadgets.
• First female pilot to win Distinguished Flying Cross medal is Laura Nicholson who braved Taliban rockets to save Afghan mother Army Air Corps officer and Chinook pilot Major Laura Nicholson, 39, (pictured), rescued a family caught in crossfire between US Marines and the Taliban with an injured colleague on board.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• Air ambulance to fly at night after donations see operations extendedThe Midlands Air Ambulance will fly for 14 hours a day all year around after a flood of donations.