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Sunday, 12 April 2015

The Guardian

• Target Pluto: fastest spaceship set for epic encounter with our remotest planetNasa’s New Horizons spaceship has travelled billions of miles in nine years to answer astronomers’ questions about the tiny worldIt is the fastest spaceship ever launched and has been hurtling towards its target at a staggering 36,000mph for the past nine years. But now Nasa engineers are preparing to put their robot craft, New Horizons, on its final course – to the tiny world of Pluto.Scheduled to reach its target on 14 July, New Horizons has already covered more than three billion miles since its launch, a distance that means signals from the spacecraft now take about 4.5 hours to r...
• Lufthansa doctors recommended continued treatment for Andreas Lubitz, report claimsGerman newspaper cites documents which allegedly reveal requests that pilot ‘continue to receive psychological treatment’ Doctors at Lufthansa had recommended that pilot Andreas Lubitz, who is suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps, be given psychological treatment after he suffered a bout of depression, a German newspaper reported.Citing documents found by Germany’s air transport authority, the Bild am Sonntag said the doctors wrote that “Lubitz should continue to receive psychological treatment, even though he was deemed fit to flyâ€� by an independent expert in 2009. Co...

London Evening Standard

• Terrifying ordeal of flight saved from plunging into sea with just SECONDS to spare An autopilot nightmare saw a hero pilot save his passengers from plunging into the sea with just seconds to spare, it has emerged.

Aviation Industry

• US government to review Gulf carrier subsidy claims; establishes forum for commentThe US is reviewing a report that alleges Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways receive billions of dollars of state subsidies. The government has also established an open forum where information and views on the issue can be submitted. read more

Other News Sources

• Europe's pilots set out prerequisites for the Single European SkyThe Single European Sky (SES) ndash; as well as its US counterpart NextGen ndash; is a vital project for modernising Air Traffic Management. It will profoundly change the way flight operations ...