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Aircraft

# aircraft - Today’s News

From Business ETC Jobswatch

Aer Arann buys €144 million worth of aircraft and announces 50 jobs

The airline outlines a plan to double its annual passengers to over two million over the next five years.

# aircraft - Wednesday 15 May, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Chopper

# aircraft - Saturday 30 March, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Fire This post contains videos

WATCH: Smoke and fire training for Dublin Airport firefighters

The Dublin Airport Authority Fire Service use a simulator that can replicate numerous different fire situations on an aircraft.

# aircraft - Friday 29 March, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Fire This post contains videos

VIDEOS: A day in the life of the Dublin Airport Fire Service

Training, bird scaring and speeding across the runway for an emergency callout – there’s never a dull moment at the DAA fire station.

# aircraft - Wednesday 30 January, 2013

From TheJournal.ie Mali

French troops at gates of last major city in northern Mali

French troops landed at the airport in Kidal, a senior Tuareg figure confirmed.

# aircraft - Tuesday 20 November, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Dublin Airport This post contains audio

Off-duty pilot helps to land Lufthansa plane at Dublin Airport

A Boeing 747 en route to Frankfurt made an emergency landing at Dublin Airport yesterday morning after one of the pilots became incapacitated with a migraine.

# aircraft - Monday 12 November, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Crash

Investigations into plane crash which killed instructor and trainee pilot

Gardaí and the Air Accident Investigation Unit are probing the crash near Birr which killed two men yesterday evening.

# aircraft - Saturday 20 October, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Prime Numbers

Cole, Cork-opoly and grocery shopping: The week in numbers

How much does it cost to bring football into disrepute on Twitter? And how do NAMA’s accounts look?

# aircraft - Wednesday 15 August, 2012

From TheJournal.ie WaveRider

Hypersonic jet fails Mach 6 test

Officials have blamed a faulty control fin for stopping the super-sonic combustion ramject engine from starting properly.

# aircraft - Tuesday 14 August, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Canary Islands

Fires begin to ease on Canary Islands

The fires caused the evacuation of one of the smallest islands, and affected 10,000 acres of land.

# aircraft - Tuesday 7 August, 2012

From Business ETC Up In The Air

Aer Lingus traffic figures increase with summer surge

Just over one million people flew with Aer Lingus in July, the vast majority of them on short haul flights.

# aircraft - Tuesday 31 July, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Two By Two

Ryanair’s next big idea: bigger doors on planes so people can board faster

“We want two people to walk through the door,” says Ryanair’s Chief Financial Officer.

# aircraft - Sunday 1 July, 2012

Space This post contains images

In photos: NASA’s aeronautical research centre as it was in the 1920s

Langley Research Center was founded in 1917 and later became famous as the site where the first moon landing was planned.

# aircraft - Wednesday 9 May, 2012

From TheJournal.ie Indonesia

Russian plane disappears during demonstration flight

Plane carrying 46 people has lost contact with air traffic controllers while flying in western Indonesia.

# aircraft - Thursday 3 May, 2012

From The Score Preparations

British military carry out security tests ahead of Olympics

The training includes the deployment of one weapon it hopes it never has to use

# aircraft - Tuesday 10 April, 2012

Ouch This post contains videos

VIDEO: Why you should never take on a jet plane…

Never go up against a jet plane. You WILL lose.

# aircraft - Sunday 1 January, 2012

Watch: The airport only eight pilots in the world are allowed fly to

The approach to Bhutan’s Paro Airport is so dangerous planes are not allowed to fly in after dark. Here’s how it’s done…

# aircraft - Thursday 3 November, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Jobswatch

More than 150 new jobs announced for Dublin Airport

The positions will be created at a landing gear repair facility run by Dublin Aerospace.

# aircraft - Monday 31 October, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Gaza Strip

Two killed after Israeli aircraft strike Gaza Strip

Two men reported dead after Israeli aircraft struck the southern Gaza Strip targeting rocket-launching militants.

# aircraft - Sunday 25 September, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Hijacking

5 places to watch your car in Ireland…

Official statistics show that the rate of hijacking in the Dublin region is more than double that of elsewhere in the country.

# aircraft - Tuesday 14 June, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Blimp

German authorities investigate fatal blimp crash

The pilot of a blimp died on Sunday after an apparent sudden loss of weight caused the ship to shoot into the air, where it burst into flames. The two passengers on board leapt to safety.

# aircraft - Thursday 10 February, 2011

From TheJournal.ie Cork Crash

Pilots’ association says ‘speculation’ about cause of crash is not helpful.

‘Misleading’ and “hastily-drawn conclusions” criticised as final moments of Cork plane accident are analysed.