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Added on the 09/05/2022 16:16:22 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Plaintiffs, including Bahia Bakari, the only survivor of a plane crash that killed 152 people off the Comoros in 2009, enter the courtroom of the Yemenia trial that opens in Paris. Bahia Bakari, who was just a 12-year-old girl at the time of the crash survived by clinging to debris for 11 hours until she was found by a fishing boat the following day. IMAGES
Wide shot images of planes taking off from Kabul Airport on Wednesday. More than 80,000 people have been evacuated since August 14, many are still hoping to flee the threat of reprisals and repression in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. IMAGES
People line up at New Delhi airport as domestic flights re-commence after a two month long shutdown implemented to contain the spread of the coronavirus. IMAGES
The trial of four men accused of murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 opens in Schiphol the Netherlands, even though the suspects are still at large. It follows a half-decade long fight for justice by families of the 298 people who were killed when the jet was shot down over Ukraine by a Russian-made missile as it travelled from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. IMAGES
Small firms, including German contenders like Volocopter, are in a race with established aircraft manufacturers like Airbus and billion-dollar tech giants like Uber to produce the first air taxis. An array of 18 helicopter-style rotors powered by batteries heave the "VoloCity" into the sky, with the company saying it can carry two passengers with hand luggage up to 35 kilometres (22 miles), at speeds of up to 110 kilometres per hour. In Stuttgart, a new version of the "flying taxi" took off for a public test flight. IMAGES of the test flight
Daredevil French inventor Franky Zapata blasts off from Sangatte on the French coast at the start of his attempt to hover across the Channel standing on a jet-powered "flyboard". The ambitious crossing comes 110 years to the day after pioneer Louis Bleriot made the first airplane flight across the Channel on July 25, 1909. IMAGES