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Airbus says A400M to fly at Paris airshow Airbus said its A400M would take part in the flying display at the Paris airshow next week, just over a month after one of the planes fatally crashed in Spain.

10 June 2015

First Germanwings crash victims' bodies repatriated The first bodies from the Germanwings plane that was deliberately crashed in the French Alps were repatriated to Germany.

10 June 2015

Air Astana to fly to New York, Tokyo, Singapore President Nazarbayev gave a task to raise standards of Air Astana Kazakhstan's airline company, to international leadership.

29 May 2015

Probe after Air France plane narrowly misses mountain French accident investigators have opened an inquiry into a near accident involving an Air France Boeing 777 which narrowly missed central Africa's highest mountain with 37 people on board.

27 May 2015

Airbus holds first A400M test flight since deadly crash Airbus on Tuesday carried out the first test flight of a new A400M since one of the military transport planes crashed in Spain over the weekend.

13 May 2015

Airbus continues A400M tests, crash victims honoured Airbus said it would carry on with test flights of its A400M military transport plane despite the crash of one of the aircraft in Spain that killed four employees.

12 May 2015

Black boxes of crashed A400M plane found, aircraft grounded Spanish authorities found the two cockpit recorders of the Airbus A400M military plane that crashed near Seville airport, killing four people.

11 May 2015

France's Hollande in Qatar for warplane deal French President Francois Hollande arrived in Qatar to oversee the signing of a multi-billion-euro deal to sell 24 Rafale fighter jets to the gas-rich emirate.

04 May 2015

Germanwings victims remembered in Barcelona memorial service Some 1,500 people attended a memorial service at Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia Cathedral, and paid homage to the 150 people killed in Germanwings plane crash.

28 April 2015

Berlin knew Ukraine flight dangers before MH17 crash: reports Berlin knew the risks of flying over war-torn east Ukraine before Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky last year but did not inform German airlines.

27 April 2015

Families mourn Mali desert crash victims as military stand by Relatives of 116 people killed in an Air Algerie crash in July visited the scene of the disaster in remote hazardous northern Mali under tight military guard.

22 April 2015

Poles still divided over Russia crash five years on Poles marked the fifth anniversary of the deadly plane crash in Russia that killed then president Lech Kaczynski and 95 officials.

11 April 2015

Lufthansa says Germanwings co-pilot admitted 'severe depression' The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings plane had informed his employer that he had undergone a "previous episode of severe depression".

01 April 2015

Alps crash captain shouted 'open the damn door' The captain of a passenger jet that investigators believe was deliberately crashed into the French Alps shouted at the co-pilot to "open the damn door".

30 March 2015

Germany to hold national memorial for crash victims on April 17 Germany will hold a national memorial ceremony and service for victims of a Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 aboard, on April 17.

28 March 2015

Pilot of crash plane was locked out of cockpit: report 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 March 2015

Kazakh family of three dies in French Alps plane crash A family of three from Kazakhstan was among the victims of the plane crash in the French Alps.

26 March 2015

Kazakhstan says at least three citizens killed in Germanwings crash The Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan said at least three of its citizens died in the Germanwings airliner crash in the French Alps.

25 March 2015

German town mourns 16 teens killed in France air crash A German town mourned 16 teenagers who were among the 150 people killed in a plane crash in the French Alps as they returned from a school exchange in Spain.

25 March 2015

Opera singers among French Alps air crash victims: theatre Two star opera singers, one of them accompanied by her baby, were among 150 people killed in the German airliner that crashed in the French Alps.

25 March 2015

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