A 64-year-old French pensioner was ejected from the cockpit of a Dassault Rafale-B fighter jet during the course of an aerobatics flight out of Saint-Dizier, in the country’s north-east. An incident report released by France’s Civil Aviation Authority blamed inadequate medical safeguards and safety protocols for the dramatic incident. The 64-year-old defence manufacturing employee was
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the European Union to close its 26-country Schengen area to non-citizens for at least another five months.
The Association of Flight Attendants president has called on a halt to all leisure travel to protect those working on aircraft from COVID-19.
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Etihad Airways is testing a number of automated medical scanners in partnership with Australian company Elenium.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released the 56th Annual Safety Report (2019). The data documents the continued trend towards safety in aviation across recent years, even as a record 4.54 billion travellers took to the skies in 2019.
