Day Archives: 4 January 2025

04Jan, 25

Dash 8’s lights would have blended with runway centreline before A350 collision: inquiry
[ad_1] White lighting on a De Havilland Dash 8 would have blended in with surrounding runway lights, rendering it difficult to see before the aircraft was struck by a landing Airbus A350 at Tokyo Haneda a year ago. Japanese investigators probing the fatal 2 January 2024 collision have conducted simulations of the A350 pilots’ cockpit view of runway 34R, pointing out that the Dash 8 was aligned with the centreline about 150m beyond the A350’s aiming point. The simulations, carried out in April …
04Jan, 25

Flight delays: What rights do you have to compensation or refund if your plane is late?
[ad_1] Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need …
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