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EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS

The DIAMOND LAND moored in the port of Hamburg – Photo : Piet Sinke © One Missing Sailor Rescued, Second Dead One of two sailors who abandoned their boat in rough seas hundreds of miles off the Virginia coast was found in the water a day later Monday and pulled to safety on a merchant ship, the Coast Guard said. The other sailor was found dead.

Lochlin Reidy, 58, from Woodbridge, Conn., was spotted about 4 a.m. after a Coast Guard plane saw a strobe light in the ocean about 400 miles east of Virginia Beach and flew over the area to investigate, said Officer Krys Hannum, a Coast Guard spokeswoman.

He was taken aboard the merchant vessel Sakura Express, and his condition was not immediately available. Later Monday, Thomas Tighe, 65, from Patterson, N.Y., was found dead in the water.

Three other sailors who were rescued from the 45-foot sailboat Sunday night said Tighe and Reidy got into a life raft after the boat began taking on water from 16- to 20-foot seas. The life raft broke away, and a merchant ship that searched the area Sunday night found the raft empty.

The other three sailors were airlifted to Nantucket, Mass., Sunday night.

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The sailors were on a voyage from Bridgeport, Conn., to Bermuda when they encountered the severe weather, including 28- to 33-knot winds. The Coast Guard picked up their electronic distress signal around 6 a.m. Sunday.

The Coast Guard also rescued six people Saturday and Sunday off North Carolina after nasty weather battered their sailboats.

NEW SALVAGE ARBITRATION PROCEDURE LLOYD’S of London expanding the services provided under Lloyd’s Form of Salvage Agreement (“LOF”) by introducing a Fixed Cost Arbitration Procedure (“FCAP”). Lloyds says the move continues LOF’s tradition of adapting to meet the needs of its users: salvors, underwriters and property owners alike.

The FCAP has been introduced following indications from the users of LOF that a procedure which limited the costs of obtaining an award would be welcome, in particular in cases where the amount of the salved fund is small or where no point of law arises and the facts are uncomplicated.

After holding discussions with representatives from all sectors of the international maritime community, Belinda Bucknall, QC, a member of Lloyd’s Panel of Arbitrators, offered to produce guidelines on a fixed cost documents-only arbitration procedure. These guidelines have now been presented to the Lloyd’s Salvage Group, which consists of representatives including the International Salvage Union, the International Group of P & I Clubs, the Lloyd’s Market Association, the International Underwriters Association, the Admiralty Solicitors’ Group, and various owners’ groups, and have been welcomed by all concerned. NEW GIB FLAG ROW IT has just come to light that the Spanish authorities denied a Gibraltar-flag tanker chartered by the US government access to the port, and major US military base, at Rota.

The Gibraltar daily newspaper Panorama says a report circulated on Monday by PrensaLatina.org website claims that the Aegean Tulip was turned back last February.

Panorama reports that, a spokesman for Aegean Bunkering said that January 20, on the ship’s first trip to Rota, all the relevant documentation was accepted and clearance given by the Cadiz port authorities. However, with the ship already anchored nearby, diplomatic clearance was denied at the last minute by the military authorities in Rota. The Aegean spokesman also pointed out that since Spain relaxed its maritime ban last year, its vessels have sailed to Spanish ports without problem.

Aegean Bunkering has taken up the issue with the Gibraltar maritime administrator who has referred it to the Foreign Office. Plans for a second trip to Rota in March were abandoned because diplomatic clearance was again not granted. The company says no official reason was given.

FEWER PIRATE ATTACKS IN Q1 THE first three months of the year saw a marked reduction in piracy attacks, attributed by the International Maritime Bureau to the effect of the Boxing Day Tsunami which devastated large areas of the coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh where pirate gangs were believed to be based. There were 56 attacks in the period compared to 79 in Q1, 2004.

While the latest quarterly report from IMB does indicate a lower level of piratical activity there has been a continuing trend towards holding hostages to ransom and a number of serious incidents have been reported since the end of March.

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There has been no news of the fate of three seafarers, a tugmaster and two crew, kidnapped off Sabah but the IMB says that there are currently no hostages being held by pirates in Somali waters.

The IMB, however, has reiterated its warning that Somali-based pirates are operating at considerable distances from the countries coast and are increasingly using false distress signals to lure ships into traps. A similar ploy has been reported from the waters off Oman.

Concern over armed escort ships in Straits of Malacca Malaysia will meet Singapore and Indonesia over the presence of well-armed civilian ships in the Straits of Malacca. “These ships are sailing under the guise of providing protection to other vessels in the straits.

“These mercenary ships are often well-armed,” said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar. “We cannot accept the presence of these ships in the straits as they may be taking over the role of our navy and maritime enforcement agencies,” he told reporters after Timor Leste Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Minister Dr Jose Ramos Horta paid him a courtesy call at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre yesterday.

Syed Hamid was responding to reports that the United States had again offered to help Indonesia and Singapore keep guard over the straits, where there had recently been reports of piracy and kidnappings.

He said the meeting was originally fixed for this Friday in Batam, Indonesia. “But Singapore could not make it so we now have to look for another date,” he said.

Syed Hamid said the Indonesian Foreign Minister first approached him two weeks ago to hold the meeting.

“He felt that a meeting at ministerial level will give the necessary political push to come to an agreement over the straits’ security,” he said, adding that Malaysia hoped that a meeting could be fixed “as soon as possible”. On the offer from the United States, Syed Hamid said even if Singapore and Indonesia accepted it, the world’s superpower must get Malaysia to agree with its plan. “Otherwise, it will not be proper. We have reiterated many times that the security of the straits is the responsibility of the littoral states, and they must respect our sovereignty.

“However, we are willing to cooperate with the United States and other states in carrying out joint patrols,” he said. On the ongoing Non-Aligned Movement Meeting on the Advancement of Women, Syed Hamid said it was another of “Malaysia’s legacy” to the alliance of 114 members. “Countries have to change their thinking that they should not be unduly worried about the status of women,” he said.

Indon skipper goes missing The Indonesian skipper of a Labuan-registered cargo ship has “mysteriously” disappeared in waters close to the Malaysia-Philippines sea borders. The ship's crew fear that 59-year-old Tri Soebianto, whom they last saw on Saturday, might have slipped and fallen off the ship, Semporna district police chief Deputy Supt Latiff Ibrahim said yesterday.

Tri went missing in the Sulawesi Sea between Pulau Kulapuan in Sabah’s east coast and the southern Philippines island of Si Amil. DSP Latiff said search and rescue operations were being carried out to find the missing captain who was last seen charting the ship’s route from Tawau to Kota Kinabalu in the wheelhouse.

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The first officer realised Tri was missing around 11pm on Saturday. DSP Latiff said the crew informed the ship's company officials in Tawau about the incident and the officials called the Semporna police. Marine police and the navy were despatched to the scene but they found no signs of the seasoned skipper.

“We are looking at all angles in our investigations,” DSP Latiff said when asked if police suspected any foul play or other motives in the disappearance. The ship has since anchored near Pulau Kulapuan.

Sea tragedy to be probed The captain of the Ouro do Brasil was questioned on Tuesday about a collision between his ship and a fishing trawler, which has left 14 fishermen missing at sea.

The SA maritime safety authority's investigating officer Captain Nigel Campbell interviewed the master of the Liberian-flagged juice transporter to establish details of the collision.

"The ship was detained on Sunday in order for us to carry out a preliminary enquiry," said Campbell, a fishing vessel safety officer. A number of people will be interviewed during the enquiry, including the officer on watch at the time of the collision.

The Ouro do Brasil and the Lindsay, a hake trawler, collided off the coast near Port Elizabeth early on Sunday morning.

The ship stopped and the alarm was raised and a massive rescue operation began. The two survivors of the trawler would be interviewed once they were well enough.

The Ouro do Brasil rescued crewman Johan Ehlers, who was swept off the deck while finishing a cigarette. The crew of the Lincoln, a sister ship, rescued Paul Landers.

Campbell said once the enquiry was completed, the information would forwarded to the executive of the SA Maritime Safety Authority who would make recommendations to the ministry of transport.

These could include a marine court of inquiry, which had limited powers.

If the vessel at fault was a South African certificate holder, the certificate could be suspended. If the enquiry found against a foreign-flagged vessel, they could only forward recommendations to the country that vessel is registered in.

Once the inquiry if over, the Ouro do Brasil, currently empty, would be allowed to continue its journey to Brazil to load. "They will not be unduly detained," Campbell said.

Die Burger reported on Tuesday that the investigation into who was responsible would depend on which of the vessels had right of way.

Ian Gray, commander of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) in Port Elizabeth, told Die Burger right of way was a complicated term and everything would depend on the circumstances in which the ship Ouro do Brasil and the fish trawler Lindsay found themselves before the crash.

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"The maritime shipping act determines who has right of way on the ocean." He said the Lindsay and Ouro do Brasil should have been communicating with each other and other vessels in the area about their intentions.

"Before the Lindsay dropped anchor, its bright navigation lights would have been switched on," he said. "The ship and the fishing trawler both had radar, but in the case of the Ouro do Brasil, its radar would not have picked up the Lindsay if they were too close," Gray said. He said the investigation of the South African maritime safety authority (Samsa) into negligence on the part of the two ships could lead to a criminal court case.

The guilty party or parties could be charged with culpable homicide.

Note : The OURO DO BRASIL belongs to Fischer Group, Brasil, but she is managed by Aleuropa Hamburg, the Captain and officers are German

Speculation hots up over merger of P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk MAERSK Sealand and P&O Nedlloyd are in merger talks, according to speculation circulating at the highest level within liner shipping circles.

If the rumoured negotiations are successful, the deal would be the biggest and most challenging ever undertaken in the container trades, and would create the world’s largest line, more than twice the size of its nearest rival. Several senior industry figures have told Lloyd’s List they understand that the two sides are in merger discussion. Neither AP MØller-Maersk, which owns Maersk Sealand, nor P&O Nedlloyd, would comment yesterday.

Word that the Danish conglomerate was eyeing the Anglo/Dutch line first surfaced publicly about three months ago, but the rumours then died down until last week when a fresh round of speculation flared up in Europe and Asia.

Some suspect an announcement could be made in the coming fortnight. P&O Nedlloyd holds its annual general meeting on Thursday, shortly after publishing its first quarter results. P&O Nedlloyd chief executive Philip Green has made little secret of the fact he has been surprised by the lack of consolidation in the liner shipping trades over the past few years, and that he expects there to be more.

His top priority is to create shareholder value, and the stock price has more or less doubled since P&O Nedlloyd was floated a year ago. But the industry could well be approaching the peak of the cycle, adding urgency to the timing of any sale.

P&O Nedlloyd has a market capitalisation of around $2.1bn. Cash-rich AP MØller-Maersk has bought three container lines in recent years, EAC-Ben, Safmarine, and then the US line Sea-Land, as it consolidated its position at the top of the league table.

But despite those acquisitions and a huge newbuilding programme, other lines are closing the gap in terms of fleet capacity, notably Mediterranean Shipping Co which is now number two in the world with an 8% share. Others with ambitions to join the premier league and expanding fast include CMA CGM, China Shipping Container Line, and Cosco Container Lines. The rumours come at a time when there is plenty of conjecture about a possible takeover bid for CP Ships, which was due to publish its first quarter results last night after Lloyd’s List’s deadline.

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The main attraction of CP Ships is its fleet of both owned and chartered ships at a time when most lines are scrambling to find enough tonnage.

Industry sources doubt whether a merger between Maersk Sealand and P&O Nedlloyd would create serious competition concerns, given the fragmented nature of the market. The Danish line currently has a market share of just over 12% in terms of fleet capacity, and joining forces with P&O Nedlloyd would only raise that to around 17%.

The European Commission has spoken recently of the need to create European champions able to compete on equal terms with their global competitors. Insiders also warn that any attempt to merge Maersk Sealand with P&O Nedlloyd would face many pitfalls.

The integration of Sea-Land proved to be something of a nightmare for the Danish group, and very few former Sea-Land personnel remain within the group. Combining P&O Containers with Nedlloyd Lines was also fraught with difficulties, and the Dutch works councils could put up strong resistance to an approach from AP MØller-Maersk.

Possibly easing a takeover would be the Amsterdam-listed company’s structure, which is along UK lines with a one-tier board rather than the more usual separate executive and supervisory boards.

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Belgisch jacht overvaren door lege duwboot Een Belgisch zeiljacht is even ten oosten van de Zeelandbrug overvaren door een lege duwbakcombinatie.

Eén van de twee opvarenden van het jacht, een oudere man, is daarbij overboord geslagen. De man werd opgepikt door een passerend zeiljacht. Toen dat met hem onderweg was naar haven de Val bij Zierikzee, viel de motor uit.

Een reddingsboot van het KNRM-reddingsstation Noordland bij Burghsluis heeft de zeiler vervolgens van boord gehaald en hem naar een gereedstaande ambulance in haven De Val gebracht. De man is met onderkoelingsverschijnselen naar het Oosterscheldeziekenhuis in Goes gebracht. Een sleepboot van Rijkswaterstaat heeft het Belgische jacht waar op dat moment nog een opvarende aan boord was, voorzichtig naar de haven van Kats gesleept.

NAVY NEWS First Armidale patrol boat arrives in Darwin

The first of the Royal Australian Navy's new Armidale patrol boats has arrived at its home port, Darwin. The boat will be officially commissioned in late June and seven others are expected in Darwin over the next 12 months.

The new Armidale Class patrol boat fleet will take over security patrols of Australia's maritime borders.

The role has been undertaken by the Fremantle Class patrol boats for the past 22 years.

Defence Minister Robert Hill says the new fleet will be bigger, faster and more capable.

There will be 12 boats, of which eight to will be home ported in Darwin and four in Cairns.

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The French destroyer D 644 PRIMAUGUET arrived in Devonport for a port visit Photo : Ian Denton © Destroyer returns to Sasebo from U.S.- led war mission The destroyer Choukai returned to its home port in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Monday after completing a stint in the Indian Ocean for U.S.-led antiterrorism operations.

A crewman from the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Choukai is greeted by his family in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The 7,250-ton Choukai, which is equipped with the Aegis advanced air defense system, left Nov. 26 and joined the Oonami, another destroyer, and the Mashuu, a fleet support ship, to provide fuel to foreign naval ships. The 4,650-ton Oonami is based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, and the 13,500-ton Mashuu in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture. The two ships are scheduled to return to their home ports Tuesday.

The three ships have handed over their duties to their replacements. Maritime Self-Defense Force ships began participating in the operation in December 2001 under a special law that allows Japan to give logistic support to the U.S.-led antiterrorism campaign in and near Afghanistan.

Naval exercise with France planned Pakistan Navy will conduct the second round of joint exercises with the French Navy after participating in the ‘sea week’ being held in the United States later this month, officials said on Monday. An official said the joint exercises with the French Navy would be the second in a month. Pakistan Navy ships conducted

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manoeuvre exercises of attack, interception, replenishment and air defence systems with the French Navy on their way to Jordan on May 4-5, the official said.

Mine hunter exercises were held in April with the forces of the US, the United Kingdom and other countries in the Arabian Sea during April.

The Naval Headquarters said the Moawin and Tippu Sultan left for a cruise to the UK, the US and other Mediterranean countries on April 15. The ships would reach the US on May 25 and start their journey for home after participating in the sea week commemoration, it said. It said the ships, on way to their destination, touched the La Goulette Port in Tunisia, where the mission commander, Commodore Asif Sandila, and the commanding officers, called on Tunisian Chief of the Naval Staff CVM Tarek Fouzi Larbi and the mayor of La Goulette. It said Prince Rashid bin Al Hassan and Princess Alia binte Hussain of Jordan attended a reception held onboard PNS Moawin

The Belgian support vessel A 963 STERN visited the Pool of London – Photo : Wim Sinke ©

Dismantling Nuclear Submarines The Russian Federal Agency for Nuclear Power stated that Russia wanted to start dismantling foreign nuclear submarines. While they have the capacities to do this the question remains - where will the spent nuclear fuel from submarine reactors be stored? Russia is currently dismantling only its own nuclear submarines, and doing so with a foreign aid. Russia received $100 million a year for these purposes. In the space of five to six years, all of the remaining 80 Russian nuclear submarines will be scrapped. Following that, the agency said they would be ready to take U.S., British, and French submarines, which would save foreign partners considerable sums and bring in earnings for Russia.

Experts say this cooperation will keep the already existing plants used to dismantle submarines in work. Russia is currently scrapping vessels built between 1960 and 1970 and once this is done, the capacities will be freed. There may be foreign demand for this service. But since the dismantling plants were built with foreign assistance, the interested countries may demand a hefty discount when it comes to scrapping their submarines, which means Russians are unlikely to enjoy a windfall. However, the main issue is, where to process and store spent nuclear fuel. The agency said that it could be unloaded in the countries that own

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the submarines. When a law was adopted in 2001 to allow Russia to store spent nuclear fuel, environmentalists also feared that it would be the first step toward turning Russia into a global nuclear dump. At the moment Russia only accepts and recycles spent fuel from reactors that were built by them abroad.

SHIPYARD NEWS Aker Yards gets four PSV order from Siem Aker Brattvaag, a company in the Aker Yards Group, and Siem Offshore Inc. have entered into a contract to build four platform supply vessels (PSV's). The value of the newbuilding contract is approximately NOK 490 million (about $78.3 million).

The vessels will be 73.4 meters long, and 16.6 meters wide, and will have a maximum cargo capacity of 3,600 tonnes.

The vessels are of Vik-Sandvik's VS 470 mk II design, twelve of which have been built in the past.

Delivery is scheduled for 2006. The contract includes an option for two more vessels.

The STENA BALTICA, built as the KONINGIN BEATRIX in 1988, is still at the shipyard in Gdansk where she arrived February 12th. Photo : Jakub Bogucki ©

China’s Shipbuilding Moves Ahead

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China's shipbuilding industry has entered a new era with an arm of China Ocean Shipping Group (Cosco) preparing to spend up to US$520 million for the four biggest container vessels ever ordered in a China’s yard. Cosco Container Lines, which is expected to try to raise up to US$2 billion in a listing in Hong Kong later this year, has agreed to order four 10,000 TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) capacity box ships from Nantong Cosco KHI Ship Engineering near Shanghai, according to a local newspaper.

The deal is seen as a proof that the rush of foreign and domestic capital into the country's shipbuilding sector in the past five years is paying dividends. "It is very exciting. These are some of the biggest, if not the biggest, container ships ever built and the order is coming from a premier Chinese client," said Martin Rowe, a director for global ship broker Simpson, Spence and Young, adding that such an order would not have been considered five years ago. According to broker Clarkson, the global order book was a record 4.1 million TEU as of last month, or about 56% of the present fleet, up from 52% in March.

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A company statement said: “The contract value is at the same level as the second vessel in this class, ordered last fall.” The earlier ship was said by Aker to be worth in the region of Euros 350million to 400-million.

The gross tonnage of the Freedom Class ships is 158.000, making them 6 % larger than today’s largest cruise ship. They will carry 3,600 passengers, some 500 more than their predecessors in the Voyager-series, and 1,400 crewmembers.

New Maersk launch sparks talk of super size

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THE first of a new series of super post-panamax containerships named by AP MØller-Maersk at the weekend has renewed speculation about the size of the latest delivery. The Gudrun Maersk is described by the company as an updated version of previous ships, but with more automation covering the ship’s operation, cargo control and surveillance.

Unlike most other shipowners, AP MØller-Maersk rarely reveals the exact size of its large boxships and has tended to understate container capacity. Classed by ABS, the Gudrun Maersk is said to have an overall length of 367 m, compared with 352 m for its predecessors.

Another measurement, the length between the perpendiculars — referring to the distance between the end of the rudder and the bow at the waterline — is also longer than ships in the last series. That could suggest the new G-class ships are long enough to accommodate an extra bay, industry experts believe, pushing capacity up to around 9,000 teu. AP MØller-Maersk’s Odense Steel Shipyard has already built 25 S-class ships for Maersk Sealand, thought to have a nominal capacity of about 8,400 teu. Before that, the yard constructed a series of six K-class containerships, the first in the world to have a capacity in excess of 6,000 teu. Maersk Sealand has also placed orders for large containerships in South Korea recently.

Gudrun Maersk is fitted with a 12-cylinder diesel engine from HSD-Wärtsilä Sulzer and was named by Crown Princess Mary of Denmark at a ceremony hosted by Maersk Mc-Kinney MØller and attended by more than 2,500 guests as well as yard employees and their families.

Strong Orders in Floating Production Sector 110 floating production systems are forecast to be installed over the next five years and thecapital expenditure required to complete these orders is expected to total $33 billion. These are the headline findings of the new fifth edition of the study, The World Floating Production Report, released at the recent Houston’s Offshore Technology Conference by energy analysts Douglas-Westwood. FPSOs are expected to continue to dominate the global FPS scene, with the installation of 80 units forecast, accounting for a total of 70% over the next five years.

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The overall picture is one of strong market growth, with orders now clearly climbing and expected to lead to some major installation activities towards the end of the decade. Annual global expenditure in the FPS sector is expected to increase from an estimated $5.3 billion in 2005 to $8.9 billion in 2009. In terms of the total market, and counting floaters of all types, installation activity off Africa will see it attract the largest share of total expenditure at $11.5 billion over the next five years. A series of major developments offshore Brazil will help boost the Latin American FPS sector – forecast to be worth $9.7 billion over the 2005-2009 period. Dredging to deepen SA port South Australia's agricultural exporters will soon enjoy cheaper shipping. A deal has been signed to deepen the state's main port, Outer Harbour. Nearly 3 million tonnes of soil will be dredged to allow post-Panamax vessels to enter. Flinders Port's chief executive Vincent Tremaine says it will save exporters $500 million over the next 20 years and prevent loss of business to the Port of Melbourne.

"If Melbourne dredged ahead of us, we find that the larger ships just bypass Adelaide and go straight to Melbourne and we lose all of our cargoes and that's a significant problem for the state," he said.

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The FAST INDEPENDENCE is built in 1984 at the Aker yard in Wismar under yard number 153 as the RITZBERG , the same year she was renamed in TUTOVA, she sailed until 1996 with this name when she was renamed in OCTOGON 3, in 1998 she was renamed in TANGO followed by CFF SOLENT in 2004, in November 2004 back again to TANGO and in May 2005 the vessel was renamed in FAST INDEPENDENCE whilst alongside at the Damen yard in Schiedam

AIRCRAFT / AIRPORT NEWS 'Opnieuw problemen met prijsvechter Onur Air' Een vlucht van de Turkse luchtvaartmaatschappij Onur Air heeft maandag een noodstop moeten maken in de badplaats Antalya, omdat de piloten mankementen ontdekten. Dat schrijft De Telegraaf dinsdag. De Inspectie Verkeer en Waterstaat (IVW) had de prijsvechter eerder al ontboden voor een gesprek, omdat Onur Air de veiligheidsregels niet naleeft.

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Onur Air kreeg voor het weekeinde een 'laatste waarschuwing' van de IVW om de veiligheidsregels na te leven, op straffe van een vliegverbod bij de eerstvolgende melding van problemen. De noodstop in Antalya was de IVW maandagavond nog niet ter ore gekomen, schrijft de ochtendkrant.

De precieze reden voor de noodstop is niet bekend. Bij de landing klapten verschillende banden. De Nederlandse vakantiegangers hebben hun reis naar Schiphol met een ander toestel en met tien uur vertraging voortgezet.

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