Croatia Airlines suspends Dublin, Barcelona service

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China Eastern crash intentional

Flight data indicates a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed in March was intentionally put into a nose-dive. Investigators have so far not found any mechanical or technical faults with the jet, the reports say, citing a preliminary assessment by US officials. The Boeing 737-800 was flying between the southern Chinese cities of Kunming and Guangzhou when it crashed. All 132 passengers and crew on board the plane died in the crash. "The plane did what it was told to do by someone in the cockpit", according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story, citing a person familiar with US officials' preliminary assessment of the cause of the crash. Data from one of the plane's "black box" flight recorders, which was recovered from the crash site, suggested that inputs to the controls pushed the plane into a near-vertical dive, the report said. China Eastern Airlines previously said the three pilots on board were qualified and in good health. The airline separately told the Wall Street Journal that there was no indication that any of the pilots was in financial trouble. Last month, the CAAC said reports that the plane may have been crashed deliberately had "gravely misled the public" and "interfered with accident investigation work". Investigators are still in the process of analysing flight data and the wreckage from the crash, Chinese state media outlet the Global Times reported. It also said the CAAC will continue to "carry out the accident investigation in a scientific, rigorous and orderly manner". The Chinese embassy in Washington, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and plane maker Boeing declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal's report, due to guidelines set out by the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization.

Croatia Airlines suspends Dublin, Barcelona service

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Croatia Airlines has suspended operations to Dublin and pushed back the resumption of its flights to Barcelona due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Services between Zagreb and the Irish capital operated over the summer but saw a number of cancellations in September and have now been shelved until April 1, 2021. The seasonal service usually runs between April and January of the following year. Seasonal services to Barcelona, which operate between March and January of the following year, will not be restored in 2020 despite plans to do so this September. They are now planned to resume on March 28, 2021.

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Anonymous12:14
OU better keep a closer eye on BCN. VY will be increasing BCN-ZAG to 3 weekly in the peak season and will be running a service from March to October.

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Anonymous19:54
Bad news for ZAG
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Anonymous20:26
Regardless of Corona situation, I think CA should be terminated or sold completely. They are not an airline who knows how to compete on any market. If it wasn't for taxpayers money they wouldn't exist at all. It's funny because taxpayers aka customers were never their priority.
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Anonymous14:02
Has the Dublin service resumed or...? Since today there was a Normal flight from ZAG to DUB and DUB to ZAG (OU512 & OU513) as there was previously.
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