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BA and Emin select designer for giant paint job on Olympic planes

31.08.11
Artist-designer Pascal Anson has been chosen to have his artwork painted on a fleet of British Airways planes flying in and out of London during the 2012 Olympics... more

Businessman's 'broken glass threat' to pilots on board Heathrow flight

23.08.11
A 32-year-old American businessman was arrested by police at Heathrow after allegedly threatening to stab the pilots on a British Airways flight... more

Police meet with Moussa Koussa over Lockerbie bombing

08.04.11
Police investigating the Lockerbie bombing have met with Libyan defector Moussa Koussa ... more

Scottish authorities seek access to Moussa Koussa over Lockerbie

04.04.11
Scottish police and prosecutors will hold talks with Foreign Office officials over Libyan defector Moussa Koussa ... more

Lockerbie families urge police to quiz Gaddafi man as six more consider defecting

31.03.11
Police were urged to question former Libyan foreign minister Moussa Koussa over the Lockerbie bombing ... more

Commander who led SAS rescue is hero of Iraq war

28.02.11
Man who masterminded the covert SAS rescue operations across war-torn Libya is revealed as a British war hero ... more

Shaken, not stirred: How Dubai got back in business

28.01.11
With its vast skyscrapers and man-made islands, Dubai was a symbol of pre-crash turbo-capitalism. Then property prices collapsed and the debts piled up. Now, the Sheikh has called on 007 to save the day... more

Rolls-Royce shares still diving after leaks found in air-scare Airbus A380 engines

08.11.10
Strife at Rolls-Royce shows little sign of easing after Qantas says it has found oil leaks in engines made by the British company for its Airbus A380 superjumbos... more

Second Qantas jet forced to land after engine trouble

05.11.10
Second Qantas jet reports engine problems after taking off from Singapore... more

Passengers' terror as superjumbo's engine explodes mid-air with 459 on board

04.11.10
Superjumbo jet was forced to make a terrifying emergency landing on a flight from London to Sydney after an engine exploded in mid-air... more

Teen plane stowaway survives Siberia flight

02.11.10
A 17-year-old stowaway survives a 50-minute flight across Siberia hidden in the plane’s landing gear... more

Falcone a Harbinger of doom as he bails out of Inmarsat

05.10.10
Inmarsat was the leper that no one wanted to touch on the Footsie for the second day running ... more

Romanian jet stowaway caught at Heathrow vanishes

10.06.10
Romanian stowaway who survived 90 minutes clinging to the undercarriage of a jumbo jet on a flight to Heathrow has disappeared... more

Volcanic ash from Iceland shuts all airports leaving one million affected

15.04.10
All flights across Britain grounded when an erupting volcano caused the greatest chaos to air travel since the Second World War... more

Safety warning after Heathrow runway collision

08.04.10
Air accident investigators called for a tightening of procedures at London's Heathrow Airport following a collision on the ground between two packed passenger planes... more

Terror scare over passenger forces BA flight back to UK

15.02.10
British Airways flight had to return to London two hours into its journey after a terror scare, it was revealed... more

Leading edge technology that came unstuck inside a tunnel

21.12.09
Eurostars are the most technically complex trains run in Britain. At £24 million each, 18 coaches and a quarter of a mile long, they contain a mass of electronics... more

Hard-up BA grounds 22 jets after record losses

31.07.09
British Airways has been forced to ground 22 of its biggest planes and slash seven routes as it slumped to its first peak-season loss, dropping £148 million into the red... more

BA tempts top passengers with free ride in a black cab

14.05.09
British Airways is to lay on free London black cabs for passengers living within 100 miles of Heathrow... more

White House apology after their jets spark 9/11 panic

28.04.09
The White House was forced to apologise after a government exercise in which a passenger jet flew low across Manhattan caused panic in the city... more

The 2004 Olympic legacy that London must avoid

06.02.09
A diving pool with four inches of stagnant water, brand new stadia mothballed and derelict, an Olympic complex all but abandoned and strewn with litter and graffiti — this is the legacy from the Athens Olympics in 2004... more

London jumbo plunges 20,000 feet after hole is ripped in its fuselage

25.07.08
Passengers on a packed jumbo jet flight from London described their terror after a gaping hole was punched in the plane as it headed for Australia... more

Barrister jailed over £17.5m Boeing fraud

01.07.08
A barrister has been jailed for five years for attempting to con the taxman out of £17.5 million... more

Ranting Naomi claims racist 'golliwog' insult led to her assaulting two police officers

20.06.08
Naomi Campbell last night blamed apparent racism for her outburst on a British Airways jet, claiming she had been called 'a golliwog supermodel'. In an interview with Sky News, Miss Campbell said she was not going to apologise to BA as they were 'disgusting.'... more

Plane mad Naomi Campbell escapes jail

20.06.08
Naomi Campbell avoided jail despite admitting kicking and spitting at police on board a plane at Heathrow... more

All-day flights threat across London

19.05.08
Parts of London face overflying passenger jets throughout the day after ministers backed a decision to increase the use of Heathrow runways to deal with delays... more

BA sends bags by road to Milan

02.04.08
British Airways is sending thousands of suitcases by road to a sorting office in Milan because of the huge backlog created by chaos at Terminal 5... more

Flash mob invasion of T5

26.03.08
Up to 1,000 protesters are expected to flood Heathrow's Terminal 5 when it opens to the public.... more

BA's first female pilot at controls for historic T5 flight

25.03.08
This is Captain Lynn Barton who will make aviation history by piloting the first flight into Heathrow Terminal 5 when it opens for business on Thursday... more

BA's first female pilot at controls for historic T5 flight

25.03.08
This is Captain Lynn Barton who will make aviation history by piloting the first flight into Heathrow Terminal 5 when it opens for business on Thursday... more


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