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Sunday, 19 July 2015

The Guardian

• Landing gear panel falls off Boeing 777 into Chinese suburbBoeing issues a service bulletin to airlines to address a maintenance issue following the incident on an Air France flight from Shanghai to ParisThe US aviation giant Boeing says it has asked airlines to address a maintenance issue after a passenger jet’s landing gear panel fell off after takeoff on to a Shanghai suburb.The sheet of metal weighing 60kg (130 pounds) plunged to the ground shortly after Air France flight 111 took off from Shanghai headed for Paris on Monday, Boeing said. Continue reading...

The Independent

• Drone racing: Teenagers are being lured away from screens and outside to fly their aircraft against each other Luke Bannister is a 15-year-old schoolboy with dreams of becoming a pilot. A drone pilot that is, a job that didn’t exist as recently as 10 years ago.

City AM

• A Spanish airport sold for just £7,000A Spanish ghost airport, one of the symbols of the economic woes the country endured amid the Eurozone crisis, sold for €10,000 (£7,000) at a bankruptcy auction today.Ciudad Real Airport was snapped up by Chinese investment company Tzaneen International which wants to transform it into a European hub for Chinese businesses.The airport is 146 miles south of Madrid cost more than €1bn (£694m) to build. It had initially opened in 2008 but was bankrupt and closed just four years later.It's one of the country's "ghost" airports which were built ahea...

Mail Online

• Uber-style app Victor allows you to book 'empty legs' on executive planes An Uber-style travel app is bringing luxury travel to savvy travellers by offering seats at low prices when their super-rich owners don't need them. British aviation company Victor is behind the concept.
• British Airways stewardess dies from malaria in Africa A major investigation is underway to find out how the woman, who has not been named, became sick while working on a long-haul flight from London Heathrow to Ghana's capital city Accra.

Peterborough Telegraph

• Replica spitfire performs emergency landing at Sibson AirfieldA replica spitfire pilot had to perform an emergency landing at Sibson Airfield after their landing gear failed.