The inside of the Ethiopian Airlines maintenance hangar in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopia Fokker is currently being outfitted for leaving service with the airline in the bottom, while Gabon Airways (now defunct) and company Boeing 767s receive work.
Boeing today announced that they had secured 17 more orders for the 747-8 Intercontinental, the latest version of the iconic jumbo Jet made by the Chicago-based company.
Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, is reportedly in a coma-like condition and close to death at his home in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.