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    France: Air Traffic Control Strike

    French air traffic controllers are on strike.

    Strikers are protesting France’s pension reform that would raise the country’s state pension age for all workers in France from 60 to 62 by 2018. Although public announcements tried to assert that only short haul travel would be affected most strongly, air travel has come to standstill. British Airways has cancelled 90% of flights to France, and Ryanair has also cancelled flights over French airspace. Easyjet cancelled 61 flights; Iberia cancelled 34 flights yesterday alone.

    Spanish airports report some delays.

    French train service has also ground to a halt.

    Reports are that the general strike in France affect French airspace until 0600 hours on Friday, September 24.

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  • NTSB to give update on deadly midair crash near DCA. Here’s what’s known so far

    An American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided on Jan. 29 as the plane prepared to land at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport. Both plunged into the Potomac River, killing the 67 people aboard both aircraft. It was the deadliest plane crash in the U.S. since 2001. Much of the attention since the collision has focused on the helicopter’s altitude, and whether it could have been flying too high. The National Transportation Safety Board plans to provide an update Tuesday on its investigation. Investigators previously said the helicopter crew may not have heard key instructions from air traffic controllers.

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