String of unexplained pilot errors and unreliable equipment described by French investigators in a report on the 2009 crash of an Air France plane in the Atlantic
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The value of Europe's leading airlines has plunged by millions of pounds in the City over fears that the impact of the volcanic cloud could last for several more days... more
Air France is equipping all its flights using long-haul Airbus jets with new speed sensors after last week's disaster over the Atlantic, it was announced ... more
Searchers have found 15 more bodies from a crashed Air France jet and retrieved a large amount of debris from the plane that plunged into the Atlantic in the worst air disaster since 2001... more
Aviation: Italian national carrier Alitalia has set to work to persuade the two remaining hold-out unions to agree to a government-brokered rescue plan... more
As Sarah Skelding's situation demonstrates, the problem of the housing crisis is not the difficulty in getting mortgage finance, but the fact that houses are grossly over-priced... more
Rising fuel bills are transforming airline economics and pushing the industry towards mergers, but the proposed deal between British Airways and Iberia might not be all plain sailing... more
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