Minoan said Fokker 50 aircraft would fly the route, as well as a new regular service between Dublin and Oxford.

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In the latest accident, the aircraft, a Fokker 50 owned by local company CAA, was flying in from the central mining town of Lodja when it came down in heavy rainfall, AFP reports.

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In 1996 he pulled the plug on the Dutch aircraft-maker, Fokker, which he had failed to turn around.

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True, it has focused on smaller aircraft, but the regional-jet business has, if anything, been much tougher than that for long-haul aircraft: witness the recent bankruptcy of Fokker, the previous market leader, not to mention the sluggish progress of plenty of government-backed aerospace projects.

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In 1996, pioneering aviation firm Fokker NV, once a byword for industrial expertise, collapsed, ending 77 years of Dutch aircraft making and triggering the biggest mass redundancy in Dutch history.

CNN: Saturday, March 15, 1997R