Air safety

Thousands of US flights cancelled, delayed as air travel system slowly recovers from shutdown

A passenger looks at a flight board after the US Federal Aviation Administration lifted a national ground stop, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov 14.

Pilots and controllers kept communicating during ground stop of US flights

The outage was intermittent and the radar did not black out completely.

‘I may lose my mind’: Frustrated travellers stuck in ground stop of US flights

The ground stop comes less than two weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday.

US resumes flights after air traffic network failure sparks chaos

The announcement means planes in the air may land, but those on the ground cannot take off.

Newsroom bomb threats follow escalating European flight hoaxes

A police car parks outside Copenhagen Airport as police investigates threats directed at air traffic on Nov 6.

Fear, sniffer dogs and fighter jets after bomb threats hit European flights

The Aer Lingus aircraft was diverted to France’s Evreux-Fauville Air Base on Nov 5.

Explainer: What do we know about the wave of bomb threats against flights in Europe?

A fire truck and a police car are parked in front of the Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague as bomb threats forced airliners to make unplanned landings across Europe on Nov 5.

New wave of bomb threats hits passenger flights across Europe

An Aer Lingus Airbus A320 plane is seen at France’s Evreux military air base after the flight from Dublin to Rome was diverted to France following a bomb threat on Nov 5.

3 in 4 pilots report dozing off or fighting sleep while flying planes

Some 76.8% of pilots in a European survey reported at least one cockpit “microsleep” in the previous four weeks.

Bomb threat forces airliner from Tel Aviv to divert to Bulgaria

The Austrian Airlines crew decided to make an emergency landing in Sofia after reportedly receiving a bomb threat as they neared Romania.

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