Travel Safety Update - Europe.

Mar 17, 2008

Continental Airlines, EADS Concorde

French public prosecutor has asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against US carrier Continental Airlines over the 2000 crash of a Concorde that killed 113 people, the prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. The prosecutor recommended similar charges be brought against a French engineer involved in the development of the now grounded supersonic jet, the former head of France's civil aviation authority and two Continental Airlines staff. A judicial investigation concluded after the July 2000 crash that a piece of metal left on the runway from a Continental flight caused one of the Air France Concorde's tires to burst on takeoff and send debris into an engine. The plane crashed into a hotel outside Paris. A judge is expected to decide in coming weeks whether to accept the request filed by the Pontoise prosecutor's office, situated outside Paris. Mar 12, 2008

El Al Israel Airlines, Milan Malpensa Airport

Pro-Palestinian graffiti written in Arabic has been found scrawled inside the cargo hold of an El Al Israel Airlines plane during unloading at Milan's Malpensa Airport, raising Israeli concerns about Italian airport security. Israel's flag carrier, which normally uses round-the-clock security for its planes, said in a statement it had demanded an investigation into Monday's incident, without giving any further details of what had happened. Italian police said the security breach was unlikely to have happened at Malpensa, as the plane had only just landed when the graffiti was discovered. The Israeli embassy in Rome said it does not comment on security matters. A source close to the Italian airport police said local authorities only learned of the graffiti after the plane left the Italian airport for Tel Aviv on Monday. Mar 12, 2008

Eurocontrol

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