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Saturday, 19 June 2021

BBC News

• BA plane damaged after tipping forward at HeathrowImages on social media showed more than a dozen emergency service vehicles in attendance.

Financial Times

• My electric flight into the futureThe dream of emission-free flying might be closer than you imagine. Tom Robbins takes a ride over London in the first fully certified electric plane
• Carbon counter: ESG activism will give mile-high snub to executive jets Company pledges to cut CO2 emissions are at odds with high-polluting private aircraft

Times Online

• Solar drone gears up for space war [Subscription]A solar-electric powered drone that can operate above the weather in the stratosphere will be able to relay communications between troops if satellites are wiped out by adversaries operating in space.
• Low-cost carriers could fly if end of travel restrictions really is nigh [Subscription]Quadruple witching can sometimes be as scary as it sounds and especially in a week when the US Fed got uptight about inflation and signalled that it is thinking about interest rate rises.

Mail Online

• British Airways Dreamliner 787 nose COLLAPSES on the tarmac at Heathrow Airport Photos show a British Airways Dreamliner 787 with its nose to the ground after the plane's landing gear suffered a collapse on the tarmac at Heathrow Airport earlier today.

Northern Echo

• Cones go up outside Teesside Airport as free parking is scrappedA CONTROVERSIAL move to scrap three hours free parking at Teesside has seen measures added to stop people from dropping off visitors.

Reading Evening Post

• Heathrow expansion doubts: 'They'd be happy to fill its runways''Sir Howard Davies was the chair of the Airports Commission that recommended a third runway
• Plane damaged after collapsing onto nose at HeathrowIt is not yet known what caused the incident.

Other News Sources

• Aviation authority to investigate BA plane nose gear collapseThe incident occurred while the aircraft was stationary on the tarmac at Heathrow Airport

EIN News Subscription

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