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Thursday, 01 December 2016

BBC News

• Transport Secretary 'baffled' by TfL's Heathrow expansion cost estimateThe transport secretary has said he is "baffled" by warnings from Transport for London (TfL) that improving road and rail links to an expanded Heathrow Airport could cost up to £20bn.

Financial Times

• Former Air France workers found guilty of assaultsEmployees ripped shirt from company executive during a union protest last year
• Lufthansa pilots cool on effort to end strikesUnion rejects German flag carrier’s request to call off action after fresh offer

The Guardian

• Air France workers found guilty of tearing off bosses' shirtsThree workers given suspended sentences and two others acquitted over violence during protest over proposed job cutsThree Air France workers have been given suspended sentences for “organised violence” after being found guilty of an attack on two airline executives whose shirts were ripped off their backs in a protest over proposed job cuts. Pictures of angry workers chasing their bosses, forcing one to scramble shirtless over a wire fence outside the company headquarters, went around the world in October last year. Continue reading...
• Chapecoense plane crash: fans' anger after confirmation plane ran out of fuelColombian media release audio of pilot telling air traffic controllers that plane – which crashed killing 71 players, crew and journalists – was ‘without fuel’Football, religion and grief dominated the emotional requiem service in Southern Brazil on Wednesday night for the 71 players, technical staff, sports journalists and crew killed when a plane chartered by local team Chapecoense crashed on a Colombian mountainside on Wednesday night. Related: Colombia plane crash: leaked audio shows pilot said he ran out of fuel Continue reading...

The Telegraph

• Chapecoense plane crashed when other aircraft was allowed to land first
• Colombia plane crash: jet may have run out of fuel, says aviation expert

Times Online

• Confused air traffic control trainee nearly crashed planes [subscription]Two aircraft came close to a mid-air collision as a trainee air traffic controller told a pilot: “Er, I’m not sure which way to go now.”

The Mirror

• Investigators confirm Chapecoense plane had 'no fuel' when it crashed into mountains killing 71 people Civil aviation chief Alfredo Bocanegra said the focus is now on establishing "for what reason" flight 2933 had no fuel

London Evening Standard

• Heathrow Airport hit by 'monster' queues amid border staff shortageHolidaymakers have hit out at "monster" queues at Heathrow immigration amid growing fears of a shortage of border guards.