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World biggest passenger plane makes technical stopover in Kotoka

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World's largest plane lands in Kotoka, Civil Aviation Authority celebrates feat British Airways Flight A380 touched down at the Kotoka International Airport on Thursday September 29, 2022 for a technical stopover. The British Airways ferry flight (A380) from Johannesburg enroute to London Heathrow made a technical stop at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), making this the second time an A380 aircraft has operated or landed in Accra. The A380 is a large wide-body airliner developed and produced by Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and only full-length double-deck jet airliner. The A380 has a standard seating layout for 555 passengers on two decks in a three-class configuration and needs about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) of runway to take off fully loaded. The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) announcing the technical stopover in a statement said "British Airways could not have made a better decision of choosing KIA as the preferred Airport within the sub-...

Brewdog boss James Watt wins £100,000 fraud claim court action

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James Watt said he had suffered a "significant personal toll" The boss of Brewdog has won a court action over a £100,000 fraud claim. James Watt, who co-founded the Aberdeenshire-based beer giant, said he had been "harassed, defrauded and defamed" over the past two years. He has now won a Court of Session action against Emili Ziem over payments he made to her believing she could help identify "people spreading lies" after she failed to respond to the court. The £600,000 court ruling in Mr Watt's favour included expenses. Judge Lord Brailsford said the defender Emili Ziem had failed to respond to the court, and found the transfer of £100,000 in Bitcoin was "induced by fraudulent misrepresentation". Reacting to the ruling, Mr Watt wrote: "For the past two years I have been the subject of a vicious and relentless campaign of abuse, often by troll accounts posting and sharing appalling lies about me (often direct to family and friends) - lie...