Large civilian planes remotely operated by a controller on the ground could become a reality within just a few years, after British aerospace giant BAE conducted a successful overland UK flight of an unmanned prototype for the first time.
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Tests could lead to first commercial supersonic flights since Concorde
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I seriously doubt that this plane wasn’t targeted on purpose.
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Two ground-to-air missiles were fired at a Russian passenger plane while it was flying over Syria this morning, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency.
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Newly-released video footage shows militants in Syria using anti-aircraft fire to shoot at, what appears to be, a passenger plane.
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European parliamentarians next week are to debate a controversial draft law that would create massive national police databases of flight passengers entering or leaving the 27-nation European Union, including everything from addresses to meal preferences.
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A former passenger liner, bought by a Rotterdam housing corporation and turned into a hotel and restaurant complex for almost �260m, has been finally sold to a hotel group.
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According to unnamed US officials, it was American intelligence agencies that were behind Turkey’s decision to force down a Syrian passenger plane last week, to follow up on US suspicions that the plane had Russian military hardware aboard.
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According to a new Transportation Ministry order, starting July 1, 2013 data about every passenger who enters or exits any region in Russia will be added to a new FSB/Interior Ministry database.
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Al Qaeda intended to use a radicalised Norwegian Islamic convert to attack U.S. planes in the build-up to the London Games – which start in 26 days on July 27 – it is understood.
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