Aircraft
# aircraft - Today’s News
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
# aircraft - Saturday 30 March, 2013
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
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
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
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
Investigations into plane crash which killed instructor and trainee pilot
Gardaà and the Air Accident Investigation Unit are probing the crash near Birr which killed two men yesterday evening.
# aircraft - Saturday 20 October, 2012
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
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
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
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
# aircraft - Sunday 1 July, 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
# aircraft - Thursday 10 February, 2011
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.




































