Daily departures: Ryanair, 9/11, Sukhoi, and more

• Ryanair founder Tony Ryan died yesterday at age seventy-one. His legacy: a budding transformation of Europe through cheap travel. [AP/IHT]
• 9/11 families who lost loved ones in Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, settled a lawsuit with American Airlines and other companies. [Aero-News.Net]
• The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! (In aerospace competition, anyway.) [The Cranky Flier]
• Did Airbus execs ditch shares just before A380 delays were announced? The French financial regulator is investigating. [AP/MSNBC]