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Air France-KLM said Wednesday it cut its losses in the first quarter of 2016 but passenger traffic to Paris was affected by terror attacks.

• 04 мая 2016, 14:15

An air ambulance helicopter carrying a baby girl with suspected leukaemia to hospital has crashed in Kazakhstan, killing all five on board.

• 28 января 2016, 16:27

A helicopter has crashed in Zhambyl Oblast in Kazakhstan's south. Pilot sustained severe burns, but walked 5km to the nearest village.

• 25 января 2016, 18:22

Turkey on Monday sent back to Russia the corpse of a pilot killed when his plane was shot down by the Turkish air force for allegedly violating its air space on the Syrian border.

• 30 ноября 2015, 15:51

With a hint of swagger, Afghanistan's first female pilot since the fall of the Taliban is defying death threats and archaic gender norms.

• 29 апреля 2015, 15:15

Pilots in Shymkent have built a figure of 70 in the sky.

• 22 апреля 2015, 15:22

A pilot of the plane that crashed in the French Alps left the cockpit before the fateful descent and was left trying to smash the door down but still failed to get back in.

• 26 марта 2015, 13:39

Kazakhstan’s national airline Air Astana plans to increase the number of Kazakh pilots in the company.

• 06 марта 2015, 18:39

Airline pilots and cabin crew are twice as likely to suffer from skin cancer because of regular exposure to harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun.

• 04 сентября 2014, 14:20

Japanese low cost carrier Vanilla Air said Friday it will cancel scores of flights in June because it does not have enough pilots to fly them.

• 16 мая 2014, 15:42

Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline, said Monday it will be forced to cancel most of its flights later this week, grounding as many as 425,000 passengers, due to a pilots' strike.

• 01 апреля 2014, 14:28

Malaysia's civil aviation department said late Monday the last words spoken by one of pilots of missing Flight MH370 were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero", and not the more casual "All right, good night" originally reported.

• 01 апреля 2014, 13:26

The US Air Force is unable to keep up with a growing demand for pilots capable of operating drones, partly due to a shortage of volunteers.

• 22 августа 2013, 10:00

Tiny brain lesions are vastly more common in US Air Force pilots who fly at high altitudes than in non-pilots.

• 21 августа 2013, 10:00

The pilots of the Asiana Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco appeared to be unaware the plane was flying too slowly until just seconds before the aircraft slammed into the ground.

• 13 июля 2013, 10:33

The flight crew of the Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 which crash landed at San Francisco Airport couldn't see the runway just seconds earlier, given how far the plane was out of position.

• 10 июля 2013, 15:05

Asiana Airlines said Monday that the pilot in charge when one of its jets crashed in San Francisco at the weekend was still undergoing training for the Boeing 777 he was flying.

• 09 июля 2013, 10:31

For Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard, flying an experimental solar aircraft across America has been exhilarating, but perilous at times.

• 06 июля 2013, 19:44

The pilot and co-pilot of a Lion Air plane that crashed at Bali's airport have passed initial drug tests, as investigators probe the causes of the accident that left dozens injured but no fatalities.

• 15 апреля 2013, 15:48

Kazakhstan pilots will get a chance to receive the licenses under European standards and perform both domestic and international flights.

• 18 марта 2013, 14:30