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1. India rallies 30 other nations vs EU airline emission tax
MANILA, Philippines — India is working with more than 30 nations to draw up a strategy to counter the European Union’s plan to impose emission charges on airlines flying into the region starting next year.
“How can they dictate terms to us and why should we accept it?” Vayalar Ravi, India’s civil aviation minister, said in an interview in New Delhi Saturday before a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization on the EU’s plan. “This is their fantasy.”
Measures by the 27-nation bloc to impose carbon curbs on flights to and from the region have sparked protests from China’s airline association and carriers including American Airlines and Continental Airlines. The EU plans “contravene” international law and “is an attack on sovereignty,” the International Air Transport Association said this week.
More than 30 members of the International Civil Aviation Organization started their meeting on the EU’s emission trading system in India’s capital Sunday. The Montreal-based ICAO has 190 member states, including the U.S. and China, according to its website. India’s aviation ministry is hosting the two-day meeting, Ravi said, without naming the countries that are participating.
“By making the scheme applicable to non-EU airlines, there is a feeling that the European Union is overstepping its authority,” said Binit Somaia, a Sydney-based director at industry adviser CAPA Centre for Aviation. “Retaliation could take the form of tit-for-tat taxes, restrictions on traffic rights for European carriers and could even impact European aircraft manufacturers.”
The EU decided in 2008 that aviation should become a part of its cap-and-trade carbon program after airline discharges in Europe doubled over two decades. Emissions from international aviation now account for 2 percent to 3 percent of global greenhouse gas discharges, according to the EU.
2. Pilot killed, woman injured as plane crashes into Grayson motel, house
FALLS OF ROUGH, KY. — Smoke was everywhere, except where there were flames.
That’s how Dalton Nevil, 15, described the aftermath of a small plane crashing into a motel and adjacent house in Grayson County Friday afternoon.
Nevil was outside his girlfriend’s apartment when the plane crashed into the Pine Tree Inn next door in Falls of Rough.
Nevil said he ran to the house house attached to the rear of the motel and found the complex’s co-owner Tyonie Bruner dazed in her bedroom as fire and pitch-black smoke filled the house, the hotel and the nearby space outdoors.
“It was horrible,” he said.
He helped her from burning building and into the parking lot.
But the pilot of the single-engine plane died after crashing into the rear of the small motel near the Rough River Dam State Resort Park, Grayson County Coroner Joe Brad Hudson said. Much of the plane was destroyed in the crash.
The pilot’s name had not been released as of Friday evening.
Just after 12:30 p.m., the plane struck a corner where the hotel and house to its rear are attached, Grayson County Sheriff Rick Clemons said. A witness told authorities that the plane took off from an airfield at the state park, circled, sputtered and crashed into building, Clemons said.
The cause was under investigation.
The Federal Aviation Administration was investigating Friday at the motel. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were traveling from Atlanta to investigate.
Bruner was treated by emergency medical personnel on scene.
She suffered burns to her hands, said Shavonne Jones, her daughter. The hotel had customers, but none were in the building at the time of the crash.
Bruner was lying in bed when she heard the plane approaching, just before it crashed through a wall in her bedroom.
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