Section: Africa&ME
Once quiet Russian city thrust into spotlight as mourners flock to crash site
FlyDubai’s fatal crash at Rostov-on-Don airport has thrust the relatively quiet Southern Russian city into the global spotlight Investigators, including UAE aviation officials, are travelling to the city in an effort to determine why flight FZ981 nosedived into the runway at the airport, killing all 62 people aboard.A constant stream of...
Before FlyDubai crash, Rostov-on-Don was known for football and Nobel Prize winners
FlyDubai’s fatal crash at Rostov-on-Don airport has thrust the relatively quiet Southern Russian city into the global spotlight Investigators, including UAE aviation officials, are travelling to the city in an effort to determine why flight FZ981 nosedived into the runway at the airport, killing all 62 people aboard.Before the crash, global...
Black boxes from plane crash site are badly damaged: Russia
Aviation experts on Sunday began examining the black boxes from the FlyDubai flight that crashed amid high winds at an airport in southern Russia but said the cockpit voice and data recorders were badly damaged.FlyDubai’s Boeing 737-800 from Dubai nosedived and exploded in a giant fireball before dawn Saturday after trying to land for a...
Ukraine pilot verdict in two days
Nadiya Savchenko ruling set to drive fresh wedge between Russia and Ukraine …read more Source: Gulf...
Terrorism not cause of fatal #Flydubai crash
Investigators probing the crash of Flydubai flight FZ981said that the lines of inquiry include the possibility of crew error, a technical failure and bad weather conditions. ||| London – All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when the aircraft crashed on its second attempt to land at...
Ukraine pilot verdict set to drive fresh wedge between Russia and Ukraine
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko awaits the verdict in her controversial trial over the murder of two Russian journalists with few doubting she will be found guilty in a ruling that will fuel the feud between Kiev and Moscow …read more Source: The Daily...
All we know about the FlyDubai crash so far
MOSCOW // Winds were gusting before dawn Saturday over the airport in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don when a plane carrying 62 people from Dubai, a favourite Russian holiday destination, decided to abort its landing.The timing was tricky. Two planes had landed just a few minutes before the FlyDubai plane aimed to touch down. On the...
MANCHESTER CITY VS MANCHESTER UNITED: MATCH PREVIEW
Huu ni moja ya michezo migumu katika Ligi Kuu England ukiwakutanisha mahasimu wawili wa jiji la Manchester, yaani Manchester City na Manchester United, huku timu zote mbili zikihitaji ushindi kwa hali na mali ili kuweza ama kujiweka katika mazingira ya mazuri ya kushiriki UEFA mwakani au kuchukua ubingwa kama itawezekana. Manchester City...
Why Democratic Party Foreign Policy Fails and Will Continue to Fail
By Richard Falk For six years (2008-2014) I acted as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine, and found myself routinely and personally attacked by the top UN diplomats representing the U.S. Government. Of course, I knew that America was in Israel’s corner no matter what the issue happened to be, whether complying with a near unanimous...
Risk of nuclear war in Europe growing warns Russian ex-minister
The East-West standoff over the Ukraine crisis has brought the threat of nuclear war in Europe closer than at any time since the 1980s, a former Russian foreign minister warned Saturday …read more Source: The Daily...
