/PRNewswire/ Hillsboro Aero Academy (HAA), a helicopter and airplane pilot career flight training school, announced that it has expanded its partnership.
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany on Sunday shuttered its embassy in Kabul and sped up preparations to evacuate its citizens and local helpers on Sunday as Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan capital. The security situation has deteriorated drastically. The German embassy Kabul is closed as of Aug. 15, the foreign office in Berlin said on its website. According to diplomats, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas decided to move the embassy staff to the military part of Kabul airport where they are supposed to resume working. At the same time, authorities in Berlin were speeding up efforts to evacuate German citizens as well as Afghans who used to work for the German military or other institutions. Taliban insurgents entered Kabul on Sunday and said they expected to take power within days. Maas convened the government s crisis team to launch emergency measures to secure the departure of German staff and other people at risk, according to a diplomatic source. A defence ministry spokesman did not confirm
MOSCOW/ANKARA (Reuters) -Eight people were killed when a Russian firefighting Be-200 plane crashed in Turkey on Saturday, the Russian defence ministry was cited by Interfax news agency as saying. The Russian military said last month a Be-200, part of the Russian naval air forces, had been sent to help Turkey fight wildfires raging through southern coastal regions. Turkey has been fighting the fires for the past two weeks, with most of them now brought under control. Five crew members from Russian military personnel and three citizens of Turkey who were spotting fire centres were killed, the ministry said. The Turkish defence ministry said another military plane and a helicopter were dispatched to the scene to help with the search operation. (Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova in Moscow and Ece Toksabay in Ankara;Editing by Alison Williams)
As Murfreesboro grows, so does air traffic.That was Murfreesboro Mayor Shane McFarland. Currently, MTSU leases hanger and classroom space from the Murfreesboro Airport, but that will likely change. The growing number of airplanes landing at the local airport has led to concerns over the MTSU Aerospace Program having enough space to continue teaching future pilots the basics of flying.Mayor McFarland said the MTSU flight school, which maintains multiple aircrafts at the Murfreesboro Airp .