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US firm Caterpillar to slash 1,400 jobs in Belgium: company

February 28, 2013 09:01
US heavy machinery firm Caterpillar announced plans Thursday to slash 1,400 jobs at its Gosselies site in Belgium, one of Caterpillar's largest facilities in Europe but now hit by slow sales and high costs. "The proposed measures aim to give the Gosselies site a chance to exist in the future by positioning it as the indispensable source of production for machinery for Europe," Caterpillar Belgium CEO Nicolas Polutnik said in a statement. "These measures though painful are nonetheless indispensable to regain competitiveness," he added.

Five dead in Belgium plane crash

February 9, 2013 13:45
Five people, including three children, died Saturday when their light plane crashed at Charleroi airport in southern Belgium, forcing its closure for several hours, police said. The two adults and the children on the Cessna aircraft were from the same family, the police said. No information was immediately available about who was piloting the aircraft, with police declining to provide any details as an investigation got under way into the cause of the accident.

UPDATE 2-Belgian airport reopens after plane crash kills family

February 9, 2013 08:30
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A small passenger plane crashed at Belgium's Charleroi airport on Saturday, killing five people and closing the international hub used by Ryanair for six hours just as thousands of people were due to go away on holiday. The aircraft, a Cessna, had problems on takeoff and tried to return to Charleroi to make an emergency landing but crashed on the side of the runway, airport officials said.

Five dead in Belgium plane crash

February 9, 2013 07:30
Five people, including three children, died on Saturday when their light plane crashed at Charleroi airport in southern Belgium, forcing its closure for several hours, police said. The two adults and the children on the Cessna aircraft were from the same family, the police said. The Belga news agency said the plane experienced problems on take-off and returned to the airport but crashed next to the runway as it attempted a landing. There were no immediate indications of what caused the crash at around 10:00 am (0900 GMT), it said.

Small plane crashes, closes Belgium's Charleroi airport

February 9, 2013 07:00
BRUSSELS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A small passenger plane crashed at Belgium's Charleroi airport on Saturday, killing five people and closing the airport that is a hub for Ryanair and other low-cost carriers. The aircraft, a Cessna, had problems on takeoff and tried to return to Charleroi airport but crashed on the side of the runway, Belgian news agency Belga and Flemish state broadcaster VRT said. Two adults and three children were killed, a Belgian official told RTBF radio.
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