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Sunday, 22 November 2015

BBC News

• VIDEO: Four Britons among NZ crash deadA helicopter which crashed in New Zealand was believed to have been carrying four British and two Australian tourists, police say.

The Guardian

• Bomb threat diverts Turkish Airlines flight to CanadaCanadian police say aircraft headed from New York to Istanbul with 256 people on board landed safely in Halifax and will be searchedA Turkish Airlines flight from New York to Istanbul has been diverted to Canada after a bomb threat.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it was investigating a bomb threat that caused the flight to divert and land in Canada. Continue reading...
• New Zealand helicopter crash: British and Australian tourists who died namedTwo British couples and two Australians died with New Zealander pilot when sightseeing flight plummeted on to South Island’s Fox GlacierPolice have released the names of six passengers – four of them British and two Australians – who were killed when a helicopter crashed into a glacier in New Zealand. The pilot, from Queenstown on the South Island, also died.Two British couples – Andrew Virco, 50, and Katharine Walker, 51, from Cambridge, and Nigel Charlton, 66, and Cynthia Charlton, 70, from Hampshire – were on the sightseeing helicopter when it crashed into a crevasse on the Fox Glacier on S...

The Herald

• Blue Skye Thinking: the battle to build an airport which will change Scotland's most beloved islandIF it happens it will change the beloved Isle of Skye forever.

The Telegraph

• Fox Glacier crash: Four British tourists killed in New Zealand helicopter accidentFour Britons reported killed after helicopter with six tourists onboard crashes into New Zealand glacier in bad weather

Times Online

• Hunt for Britons killed in helicopter crash (Subscription)RESCUE teams were preparing last night to resume efforts to recover the bodies of four British tourists from a glacier in New Zealand after their helicopter crashed in bad weather.
• Osborne pays out for 138 stealth jets (Subscription)BRITAIN is to buy 138 stealth fighter jets in a £12bn deal that will treble the firepower of the UK’s two new aircraft carriers and put the country on a “full war footing” in the Middle East for a generation.

The Mirror

• Gatwick Airport security breach as Mirror reporter stands unchallenged just YARDS from passenger plane Just days after the Islamic State attacks in Paris, our investigators sailed through unmanned gates and close to a fuel truck
• Turkish Airlines flight to New York diverted and passengers evacuated after bomb threat The plane landed safely and police were searching it using dogs trained in explosives, the Nova Scotia branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Twitter

London Evening Standard

• Four British tourists killed as helicopter crashes into glacier in New ZealandSeven people are believed to have died in the crash, including the pilot and two Australian tourists

Other Regional Press

• Going orange for airline’s landmark day as employees are reunitedThe dress code was simple for a reunion of employees - wear orange!

EIN News Subscription

• Air transport agents expect major losses after banning transport of goods on passenger aircrafts … US airports, according to Tarek Darwish, head of the transport and air freight … , as well as some European airlines, will exacerbate the air transport industry’s losses … the aircrafts used are small. “The number of aircrafts used for transport is …
• EgyptAir bans transport of commodities on commercial flights: air cargo industry to suffer … US airports, according to Tarek Darwish, head of the transport and air freight … , as well as some European airlines, will exacerbate the air transport industry’s losses … the aircrafts used are small. “The number of aircrafts used for transport is …