Paris / Bloomberg If the sudden disappearance of an EgyptAir flight turns out to be the work of terrorists, it will be the fourth such attack in the past year on air travelers in North African countries battling militant groups. Even as airports in Europe and North America have strengthened security, experts say that gaps in screening of employees …

  Berlin / AFP The head of Germany’s doctors’ association has lashed out at both Lufthansa and aviation regulators for failing to prevent last year’s Germanwings crash by allowing a pilot who suffered from severe depression to fly. Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed flight A320 in the French Alps in March 2015, killing himself and the 149 others on board. Investigators subsequently …

Paris / AFP France will test an EU-wide passenger data sharing system aimed at helping to detect extremists at two of its busiest airports later this month, a senior interior ministry official said on Saturday. The Passenger Name Record system, approved by the European Parliament in April, will be tested at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport and that of southeastern Nice …