Emergency services are at the scene of a single-vehicle crash in Devon. The A30 is closed in both directions at Clyst Honiton, near Exeter Airport. The closure runs from the B3184 to the B3174 at Daisy Mount Cross. Devon and Cornwall Police said the ambulance service was also at the scene. A spokesperson for the...
A bear roaming a runway at a Japanese airport forced staff to cancel flights and declare itself off-limits to passengers for the day. The black bear reappeared on Thursday at northern Japan’s Yamagata Airport, after an initial disruption that caused flight delays and the closure of its runway. Staff used a car to chase it...
Cecilia BarrÃa and Walter Fojo BBC Mundo Reporting fromEverglades, Florida Watch: ‘I have grave concerns’ – Advocate weighs environmental impact of “Alligator Alcatraz” A convoy of trucks carrying tents, construction materials and portable toilets flows into a virtually abandoned airport in Florida’s picturesque Everglades, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But they’re not helping build the...
A drunk Devon woman ran through a fire exit and onto an airport apron after she was not allowed on a flight, a court has heard. Maisie Pearson and her friend had been denied boarding at Bristol Airport last November after the captain of the EasyJet flight to Amsterdam spotted her vaping on the airfield....
A man has been discharged from hospital after a vehicle fell from a multi-storey car park at London Luton Airport. Emergency services were called to Car Park One shortly before 11:00 BST on Sunday and one person was taken to hospital. The vehicle involved was believed to have fallen from the third storey. A spokesperson...
A person has suffered serious injuries after an “incident” involving a vehicle at a multi-storey car park at London Luton Airport, police said. The BBC understands the car involved had fallen from a higher level of the car park. Emergency services were called to the car park on the airport complex shortly before 11:00 BST....
Authorities in India have arrested a man for trying to smuggle dozens of rare reptiles, including poisonous snakes, into the country. The Indian citizen, who was returning from Thailand, was stopped by customs officials at the airport in Mumbai city on Sunday. Officials said the reptiles, including 44 venomous vipers, were found concealed in the...
BBC Thomas Woldbye expressed “his deep regret at not being contactable during the night of the incident”, the review said Attempts to tell Heathrow airport’s sleeping chief executive that the airport had been closed because of a power outage failed because his bedside phone was on silent, an inquiry has found. Thomas Woldbye was in...
Four Just Stop Oil protesters who were planning to glue themselves to the taxiway at Manchester Airport have been jailed. Officers arrested Indigo Rumbelow, Margaret Reid, Leanorah Ward and Daniel Knorr as they were making their way to the airport on 4 August 2024. They were equipped with heavy-duty bolt-cutters, angle grinders, glue, sand, Just...
Getty Images Investigators are examining whether foggy conditions and technical glitches at a San Diego airport that cut off lights meant to guide pilots may have played a role in a fatal plane crash. A Cessna 550 crashed early Thursday into a residential neighbourhood, burning cars and destroying at least one home. Authorities say all...
Austria’s new Eurovision Song Contest winner JJ returned home on Sunday 18 May to a warm welcome at Vienna’s Schwechat Airport after his victory in Basel. Fans, family, and media gathered and cheered as JJ smiled and posed for selfies. The 24-year-old, who is a counter tenor, took the title at the competition with the...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images The substation fire led to hundreds of flights in and out of Heathrow to be cancelled The root cause of a fire which led to the shutdown of Heathrow Airport and affected hundreds of thousands of journeys worldwide “remains unknown”, an interim report says. Heathrow was closed to all...
An Israeli airstrike has struck the Sanaa International Airport in Yemen’s capital, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed. Earlier in the day, the IDF asked people to evacuate the airport, warning that “failure to evacuate and stay away from the area puts you in danger.” This comes a day after Israeli strikes on targets...
Curious, only in that this wasn’t the first target selected by the IDF. Israel has launched retaliatory strikes against the Houthis in Yemen after a missile nearly hit Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, the main international hub. Airlines suspended service temporarily while the Israelis work to restore security, creating headaches for their transportation and their...
Israel’s military says it has hit Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the group’s missile launch at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport the previous day. The IDF said it attacked sites that it claimed served as a “central supply source for the Houthis” in the Hudaydah Port, as well as the Bajil cement factory east...