Swiss vintage planes resume flights after crash

A local Swiss airline that operates vintage Junkers Ju-52 planes – one of which crashed earlier this month killing 20 people on board – resumed operations on Friday after receiving the greenlight from the aviation authority the day before.  Two Ju-Air flights were scheduled on Friday as part of the resumption of flights. However, one was cancelled due to a storm; another is due to fly to Germany. The aircraft made a test flight in the morning and was also examined by inspectors from the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA).  The resumption comes almost two weeks after a fatal accident on August 4 in which a 79-year-old Ju-52 operated by Ju-Air crashed at altitude in eastern Switzerland killing all 20 people on board. The cause remains unclear and may be hard to determine because the veteran plane had no black boxes.  Following the incident, FOCA said Ju-Air could resume operations on condition that it take several precautionary measures. JU-Air’s two remaining vintage planes ...