Aviation

Leader of Bulgaria's nationalist party Ataka, Volen Siderov is to face prosecution in a hooliganism and infliction of minor injuries case, Monday.

Malaysia Airlines said it would offer full refunds to customers who want to cancel their tickets in the wake of the MH17 disaster, just months after the carrier suffered another blow when flight MH370 disappeared.
      

Malaysia is to send two C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft to Ukraine in an operation to establish causes of flight MH17 crash, a military official said on Saturday.

Malaysian Prime Minister said that the investigation must be based on firm proof and irrefutable facts, local media cite him as saying.

National Defence Minister Mircea Dusa on Saturday participates in the activities organised at General Emanoil Ionescu 71 Air Base of Campia Turzii (central Romania), on occasion of Romanian Aviation and Air Forces Day.

Deputies' Chamber speaker Valeriu Zgonea sends the entire support to the families and friends of the victims of the airplane crash in Ukraine.

Malaysia airlines has announced the final list of the nationalities of all 298 passengers on board of flight MH17 which crashed in Eastern Ukraine, Thursday.

A total of 192 of all victims were from the Netherlands, 44 people, of whom 15 crew members, were Malaysian nationals, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, 10 nationals of the United Kingdom have been on board.

The US Army is looking into options to provide unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Bulgarian Armed Forces, according to US media reports.

The survey on the US UAV market has a deadline extending only until the end of this week, according to specialized website Military Aerospace.

One of the 298 people who were killed in the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine took a photo of the plane at the Schiphol airport and posted it on Facebook. 

Ironically, his comment was “Should it vanish, this is what it looks like”, referring to the recent accident with another Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777, which disappeared mysteriously over the Indian Ocean.

Two large European airline companies, Deutsche Lufthansa AG and British Airways, have instructed their planes to avoid Eastern Ukraine airspace, after a Boeing 777 passenger jet of the Malaysian Airlines crashed in Ukrainian territory; the German company requested its planes to fly over Romania instead, the news.malaysia.msn.com website reports.

The Malaysian airliner apparently shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine was flying over airspace that a number of other Asian carriers had already abandoned months ago because of security concerns.