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Fox News
2 hours ago
- Fox News
Man goes for joy ride in stolen golf cart at Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Video shows a man going for a joy ride in a stolen golf cart at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, driving the vehicle onto a moving walkway while appearing intoxicated. (Credit: Thomas Brennan/TMX)
CTV News
a day ago
- CTV News
Private plane damaged while landing at Pearson airport after mechanical issues
Two runways at Pearson airport have been temporarily closed after a private plane was damaged while landing on Wednesday morning. No injuries were reported after a private plane experienced issues with its landing gear while touching down at Pearson airport. In a post on social media, a spokesperson with the Toronto area airport confirmed that two crew were on board during the incident and no one was injured. 'A private aircraft experienced an issue with its landing gear after touching down at Toronto Pearson this morning,' the social media post read. 'It managed to taxi down the runway before coming to a stop near an intersection.' Police said an investigation into the incident, which occurred at around 8:30 a.m., is ongoing. While flights continue to arrive and depart as usual on two of the runways, two other runways have been temporarily closed as a result of the incident, Pearson's post read, adding that passengers may see 'some delays' as a result. 'Transport Canada and The Transportation Safety Board are aware,' the post said.
News.com.au
4 days ago
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- News.com.au
Virgin Australia plane collides with ground vehicle at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne
A Virgin Australia plane has been left with a massive rip on the left side after it collided with a ground vehicle at a major Aussie airport. A Virgin aircraft has been damaged on the side after colliding a tow vehicle at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne on Sunday night. The plane hit the tug after becoming disconnected while being towed to a maintenance hangar around 8.40pm. A Virgin Australia spokesperson confirmed no passengers were on board at the time of the incident and there were no injuries. 'On Sunday evening, a Virgin Australia aircraft was being towed to the maintenance hangar at Melbourne Airport when it became disconnected from the tug vehicle, causing the tug to impact the side of the aircraft,' the spokesperson told Footage obtained by Nine News shows a large gash on the left side of the plane as workers tried to patch up the Boeing 737. understands the aircraft was being towed to the hangar for scheduled maintenance. The airline doesn't anticipate any impacts to its flying schedule on Monday.
BBC News
24-07-2025
- BBC News
Australian women win right to sue Qatar Airways over invasive searches
Five Australian women who were strip-searched and invasively examined at Doha airport have won the right to sue Qatar Airways after an women were ordered off a flight and checked for whether they had given birth after a baby was found abandoned in an airport bin in 2020 - an incident that sparked global Australian judge last year found the state-owned airline could not be prosecuted under the laws governing global travel, and said the proposition its staff could have intervened was "fanciful, trifling, implausible, improbable, [and] tenuous".The women appealed, with the full bench of the Federal Court finding the primary judge erred in throwing out the case. The five women filed a lawsuit in 2021, against Qatar Airways, Qatar's Civil Aviation Authority and the operators of Hamad International Airport, a firm called sought damages over the alleged "unlawful physical contact" and false imprisonment, which had caused mental health impacts including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Other passengers who were invasively searched - including from the UK and New Zealand - were not part of the three respondents applied to have the case thrown out before it reached John Halley in April 2024 found that Qatar Airways could not be held responsible under a multilateral treaty called the Montreal Convention, which is used to establish airline liability in the event of death or injury to if the airline could be sued, the women's case had no real prospect of success, he said: Qatar Airways staff could not have influenced the actions of Qatari police who removed the women from the flight, nor the nurses who examined them in ambulances on the Halley also struck out the women's case against Qatar's aviation regulator, saying it was immune from foreign prosecution, but said they could proceed with parts of their case against Justice Angus Stewart, Justice Debra Mortimer and Justice James Stellios found the primary judge had made rulings on issues that could only be decided at upheld Justice Halley's decision to throw out the case against Qatar's aviation regulator, but said the complainants had the right to sue both Qatar Airways and case is now expected to continue to trial in the Federal Court, the women's lawyer Damian Sturzaker said."Our clients endured a traumatic experience on that night in Doha and they deserve to have their day in court and compensation for their suffering," Mr Sturzaker said, according to The Australian. The women have previously told the BBC they did not consent to the examinations and were not given explanations for what was happening to them."I felt like I had been raped," said British grandmother Mandy, who asked to withhold her said she thought she was being kidnapped and held Gulf state launched a criminal prosecution which led to a suspended jail term for an airport Mr Sturzaker in 2021 told the BBC the women were suing because of a perceived lack of action from wanted a formal apology from Qatar and for the airport to change its procedures to make sure the incident does not happen again.
Bloomberg
24-07-2025
- Bloomberg
Australian Women Win Right to Sue Qatar Air Over Body Searches
A group of Australian women won the right to sue Qatar Airways Group QCSC after being subjected to invasive bodily examinations without consent at Doha airport in 2020. The events of Oct. 2, 2020, followed the discovery of a newborn baby in a bathroom in the airport terminal, and female passengers on a Qatar Airways flight preparing to leave for Sydney were ordered off the plane. The examinations of the women took place as authorities tried to identify the mother of the abandoned infant.
