A dead hedgehog and a flock of seagulls cost France 3 million euros after runway mishap
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A dead hedgehog which was at the origin of an airport mishap involving an Air France passenger plane nearly seven years ago has ended up costing the French government more than three million euros (four million dollars) in a court ruling.
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A helicopter crashes off the coast of the Netherlands but all 17 people on board are rescued.
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Design and structural faults were to blame for the fatal collapse of a terminal at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport last year, a French administrative inquiry said in a report made public.
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A rare farmland bird which conservationists thought had almost died out returns to the Scottish Borders.
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A French legal inquiry into the July 2000 Concorde crash outside Paris that killed 113 people presented its findings that put part of the blame on Continental Airlines -- exposing the US company to a criminal lawsuit and multi-million-euro compensation claims.
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A French court on Wednesday found Total guilty of negligence and ordered the oil giant and three other parties to pay nearly 200 million euros in damages for the 1999 Erika oil spill, one of France's worst environmental disasters.
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French flag carrier Air France is raising its ticket prices by up to 12 euros (8 pounds) per flight leg, joining a number of other airlines in passing on higher jet fuel costs to passengers.
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A death sentence hanging over hedgehogs on a remote Scottish island was lifted, after conservationists agreed to end an annual cull that has become a prickly issue among animal welfare groups.
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Three swans found dead in eastern France carried the H5N1 bird flu that can be fatal to humans, tests confirm.
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By MICHAEL TUTTON  GREENWOOD, N.S. (CP) - Bill Bond is haunted by the memory of three airmen he was unable to save when a Cormorant helicopter plunged into the ocean off Nova Scotia last summer.
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Saturday's crash could have had ended worse...  STOCKHOLM (BBC News) - A decision to permanently ground 27 planes over safety fears will cost SAS up to 400m crowns ($62m; Â£30m), the Scandinavian airline said today. The airline faces cancelling hundreds of flights after it decided to stop flying Bombardier Q400 turboprop planes due to landing gear problems, despite assurances from the manufacturer that the aircraft is safe.  The decision came after the airline's third incident Saturday involving its fleet of Canadian-made Bombardier in two months. A Scandinavian Airlines turboprop carrying 44 people from Bergen, Norway, to Copenhagen, made a crash-landing in Denmark on Saturday, sliding down the runway on its belly after part of its landing gear collapsed. No one was seriously injured. SAS cancelled more than 40 flights on Sunday and 60 flights on Monday.  The airline operates 27 of the Q400s, which are used on many Nordic regional routes and for connections to destinations including the UK, Germany, Poland and Luxembourg. Meanwhile, Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier recommended that airlines continue to fly its Q400 aircraft, despite another failure of the plane's landing gear causing an accident at Copenhagen airport.
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A titanium strip that fell off a Continental Airlines jumbo jet on to a Paris runway was the main cause of the deadly crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000, judicial experts said.
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A company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners, an attorney said Friday.
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London's Heathrow airport, the busiest international airport in the world, struggled to return to normal on Friday, one day after a Boeing 777 crash-landed, causing travel chaos but only minor injuries.
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The research and development costs of Airbus's new A380 super-jumbo will be 1.45 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) more than planned, the co-chairman of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, Rainer Hertrich, revealed.
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Corus is orded to pay over Â£3m in fines and costs for the 2001 explosion which killed three workers.
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A Dublin-bound plane was at the centre of a major security alert in France yesterday. The Icelandic Airlines Boeing 737 had taken off from the Balearic Islands in Spain, but was diverted to the French city