Aircraft tackle Costa del Sol wildfire

Firefighters are busy tackling a huge wildfire on the Costa del Sol with eight helicopters and other aircraft scooping water from the sea in an attempt to put out the blaze.   The fire broke out around 4pm on Saturday afternoon near the village of Casares in Malaga Province and now has 76 personnel on the ground assisting the aircraft …

One dead in aircraft crash in Vélez-Málaga

One person died and another was seriously injured after their light aircraft crashed about five hundred metres from the Leoni Benabú airfield in Vélez-Málaga.

El Trapiche residents fed up with noisy planes

Residents in El Trapiche are fed up with having to endure the almost daily racket caused by planes from the local airfield performing acrobatic tricks overhead and have begun to collect signatures for a petition to be delivered to the Civil Aviation Authority in Vélez-Málaga.