Aviation

Romanian air traffic controllers cancelled their Tuesday's strike, Transportation Minister Iulian Matache announced on Monday evening.

Six Bulgarian Air Force MiG-29 fighter jets will have their engines overhauled in Poland under an intergovernmental letter of intent signed in Sofia on Friday.

The TAV Academy, the training and consulting company of TAV Airports, has been certified by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) following their audit, with TAV Academy being listed among its 16 international private training centers, the company said in a written statement Aug. 27. 

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has announced that its T129 ATAK Advanced Attack and Tactical Reconnaissance Helicopter completed its first ever demonstration flights on Aug. 22-23 during the Radom Air Show in Poland.  

At least one pilot has reportedly died after two small planes collided at an airshow in the village of Dittingen, in Switzerland's Basel canton, on Sunday.

Skynews quoted police sources as saying that the two aircraft involved in the mid-air collision were flying in a formation of three. The third plane wasn't involved in the accident and landed safely. 

Seven people were killed on Aug. 22 at an airshow on the English seaside when a military jet failed to pull up out of a loop and crashed into a busy road.

The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), Turkey's defense procurement agency, said in a statement on Aug. 21 that it had launched a process to buy 15 drones from the state Turkish Aerospace Industry (TAI) and 15 from Istanbul-based developer Baykar Makine, for use by police forces. Twelve of the newly purchased drones are considered "urgent."

Bulgaria's government approved on Wednesday a draft agreement on defence cooperation with Poland, moving a step closer to a deal for the repair of Bulgarian Air Force MiG-29 fighter jets by Polish military aircraft works.

The Bulgarian government will decide at its regular meeting on Wednesday whether to approve the contract devised by the Defence Ministry on the repair of the engines of MiG-29 fighter jets by Poland.

The contract, which is entitled "draft decision for approval of a draft agreement between Bulgaria and Poland for cooperation in the military area", comes tenth on the agenda.

A Singapore Airlines plane flying to Singapore has made an emergency landing in Istanbul after running into a flock of storks. 

The Singapore-bound Boeing 777-200 took off from Istanbul Atatürk Airport at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 17, with 255 passengers and 14 crew members aboard.