Australian Aviation

The 25-year-old male pilot was onboard with a 28-year-old female passenger and a one-year-old child, and all escaped without injury.

The country’s minister in charge of responding to the virus said the decision was a “close call” but the correct one given many unknowns about the outbreak remain.

Australian aviation’s new capacity wars show no sign of relenting after Qantas said it would rival Virgin on three new routes its reborn competitor only announced last week.

VH-OQC left the Victorville storage facility at the weekend to fly to LAX for maintenance, Australian Aviation can confirm.

Sir Richard Branson said the inoculation program should be the “number one priority” and argued that “nothing else matters more”

DroneShield’s deal with Zenith AeroTech will also see the latter business place a miniaturised radar into its TAV platforms, supporting counter drone or drone swarm attacks.