Lagos: A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation. The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown on Sunday night, as firefighters and police struggled to put out the flames around the wreckage of the Boeing MD83 aircraft....
07:04 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Abuja: At least 153 people are feared to have died when a passenger plane carrying them crashed into a building in a residential area of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Sunday. The aircraft belonging to Dana air caught fire immediately sending billows of thick black smoke into the air at the Iju neighbourhood where it went down. Civil Aviation Authority officials believed there were little chances of finding any survivors....
10:53 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Lagos: A passenger plane crashed into a two-story building in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos on Sunday, officials said. Casualty figures were not yet known, said Lagos state emergency manager Femi Oke-Osanyinpolu. The Dana Air flight was taking passengers from Lagos to Abuja, said Harold Denuren, head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. Federal emergency management confirmed the crash in a neighborhood just outside the airport and said that its...
10:01 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Air India chief Rohit Nandan on Saturday warned that the airline may not be able to survive in the long run if its pilots don't end their 26-day-old strike. "If the airline has to survive in the long run, achieve the turnaround, it is essential for the pilots to come back," Nandan told IANS. "They (pilots) should think about the long-term impact this strike will have on the...
07:56 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi/Mumbai: The Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), leading the Air India pilots' strike, on Saturday said it was ready to set aside all demands to end the strike if the government restored recognition to the union. "As Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has assured us that our demands will be looked into, we all are ready to set aside our other demands and resume duties forthwith. But then we want...
02:40 AM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Air India has switched from manual to an electronic crew management system to stop manipulations in the allocation of flight duties to employees. The airline resorted to the electronic roaster system from Friday following directions of Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh. "The new system will ensure high levels of safety of operation, meet regulatory requirements, optimise crew utilisation and achieve crew satisfaction," said a ministry statement. "It (system)...
08:42 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Cairo: Egyptian security officials say Hosni Mubarak resisted leaving the helicopter that flew him to a prison hospital for the first time after a court sentenced him to life in prison for failing to stop the killing of protesters during last year's uprising. The officials say Mubarak, 84, was tearful on Saturday as he pleaded with officials to take him back to the military hospital where he has stayed since...
05:09 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Key events in the rule and downfall of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak: Mubarak took office in 1981 after his predecessor Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Islamic militants during a military parade. Mubarak, Sadat's vice president, escaped with a minor hand injury. In 1981, Mubarak implemented emergency laws as part of his battle against militants and expands police powers. In one of his first moves, Mubarak said Egypt would stick...
04:45 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Cairo: Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for his role in the killing of protesters during last year's revolution that forced him from power, a verdict that caps a stunning fall from grace for a man who ruled the country as his personal fiefdom for nearly three decades. The harsh sentence against the 84-year-old former leader appeared aimed at defusing tensions ahead of a...
01:59 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Giving a breather to Sairam Shankar is 'Romeo'. "Puri rasina prema katha," reads the tag line. What makes this film unique is that PJ has written the dialogues. This is the first time that the director has written for a film not directed by him. The film is set in Verona, where Shakespeare's drama too was set. This is the only similarity between that Romeo and this modern day 'Romeo',...
10:47 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh on Friday made public the Dharmadhikari Report and said that the demands of striking Air India pilots will be looked into only after they end their strike unconditionally. Singh also said that the ministry has set up a core panel to implement the recommendations of the Dharmadhikari report on the merger of Indian Airlines and Air India. There will be parity between the...
01:59 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Balasore: India on Friday successfully test fired its two indigenously-developed surface-to-air 'Akash' missiles of Air Force version with a strike range of 25 km from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Balasore in Odisha. "Two Air Force version Akash missiles were test-fired from the ITR in quick succession. Both the trials were successful and met all the mission objectives," ITR Director MVKV Prasad said. The anti-aircraft missiles, with a...
12:48 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: National carrier Air India will shift to an "interim plan" to salvage its international operations that have been crippled by a 24-day-old pilots' strike. "We have finished work on our interim plan and it will be implemented from June 1. Under the new plan, several destinations where the load factors are quite low might be dropped for the time being," an Air India official told IANS. The airline...
12:47 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday asked three office-bearers of the de-recognised Indian Pilots Guild (IPG), leading the pilots' strike, to appear before it on Monday and explain as to why their flying licenses should not be cancelled for not joining duty. As the strike led by the IPG entered the 25th day, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation asked the three office-bearers to appear before it on June...
10:48 PM, May 31, 2012
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