Aircraft barred from leaving Dublin Airport over alleged €4.2m debt stranding passengers and crew
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The High Court has made freezing orders preventing a passenger jet from leaving Dublin airport.
The orders were made in respect of a Moldovan Air Airbus A319 aircraft which arrived at the airport late on Tuesday night.
It was due to return to Chisinau International Airport in Moldova, and over 20 passengers as well as the aircraft s crew were stranded in Ireland as result of the order.
The plane was frozen on foot of €4.2m arbitration award made in favour of a Romanian aircraft leasing firm called Just-US Air Srl against Compania Aeriana Air Moldova Srl.
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Investigators said they are still struggling to understand why the jet nosedived into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta on Jan. 9, killing all 62 people on board
Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76
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Vocalist Mary Wilson, who co-founded the Supremes as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977, died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76.
Wilson’s longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz, reported that she died suddenly. The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed. Funeral services will be private because of COVID, he said, but there will be a public memorial later this year.
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“I was extremely shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of a major member of the Motown family, Mary Wilson of the Supreme,” said Berry Gordy in a statement Monday night. “The Supremes were always known as the ‘sweethearts of Motown.’ Mary, along with Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, came to Motown in the early 1960s. After an unprecedented string of No. 1