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FlightAware Squawks is for sharing aviation news, stories, pictures, and videos. FlightAware members submit the links and then vote to decide which stories are important, interesting, or amusing. The list of popular squawks changes constantly. You can also include a squawk box on your blog or any web page.

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Winging it with masking tape: Air-travel oversight denounced
A passenger plane with masking tape holding up electrical cords and a hot-wired instrument panel. Another aircraft fixed with the kind of parts that could have come from Canadian Tire. An Air Canada jetliner doing an illegal refuelling with a running engine and passengers on board. Those stories became public yesterday as unions representing aviation inspectors, mechanics and Tran . . . (www.theglobeandmail.com)


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Tuesday (12/01) 04:38AM EST



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'Glitch' forces superjumbo to return to New York
An Air France A380 had to turn around and land in New York after problems with its navigation system, only days after the super-jumbo began flying across the Atlantic, the airline said Monday. The double-decker Airbus made a U-turn 90 minutes after take-off from New York and landed safely at Kennedy Airport in the early hours of Saturday, an Air France spokesman told AFP. (www.google.com)


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Monday (11/30) 01:08PM EST



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Readers Speak Out About a Missed JetBlue Flight
Charles DeLaFuente’s account of paying a stiff penalty for missing a JetBlue flight drew more than 100 comments, though they were noticeably critical of the complainer, saying he pulled it much too close by arriving only 30 minutes before departure time.

Here is a sample of the readers’ reactions, with all the variant spellings of “JetBlue” left intact. (cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com)


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Monday (11/30) 02:40PM EST



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Bombardier Deepens Layoffs
A dearth of orders has prompted Bombardier to proceed with a cut in regional jet production, a move that will also reduce the manufacturer’s staff levels by an additional 715 employees.

The cuts, which were first intimated at the end of last year, come at the end of a 12-month slump that has produced just one regional jet order for the manufacturer, and that was for the C . . . (www.aviationweek.com)


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Tuesday (12/01) 11:48AM EST