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Australia Ready To Send Police To Guard Malaysian Boeing 777 MH17 Crash Site

Australia is ready to send police to Ukraine as part of an international team to secure the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site and has dispatched 50 officers to London on standby. Abbott said that he had spoken to Ukraini...


Russia Says Will Cooperate With Dutch Leading Malaysian Boeing 777 MH17 Probe

Russia will cooperate with the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and is satisfied that the Netherlands, rather than Ukraine, is leading the effort, the country’s ambassador to Malaysia said o...



TransAsia Plane Crashes In Taiwan 47 People Dead

A TransAsia ATR72-500. A domestic TransAsia Airways plane crashed on landing on an island off the west coast of typhoon-hit Taiwan on Wednesday, killing 47 people, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said. The plane, a 70-seat...


Dutch People Mourn As First MH17 Bodies Flown To Netherlands

“Think of all the people who were flying away on holiday, all the young people who had just finished their final school exams,” said Jikkie van der Giessen from Amsterdam. “They were looking fully toward the f...



ICAO Says Malaysian MH17 Voice Recorder In Good Condition

The cockpit voice recorder of the Malaysian airliner downed over Ukraine is in good condition, the UN’s ICAO said, adding that it was holding talks with airlines and states on how to assess the danger posed by conflicts. ...


Bombardier To Cut 1,800 Jobs, Aerospace Head Retires

Struggling with long delays in its CSeries airliner, Bombardier has announced it will change its business structure and cut 1,800 jobs, with the head of its aerospace division to retire. The Montreal-based company is splitting ...