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Submitted: Wednesday (06/24) 01:44PM EDT by dbaker
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(www.youtube.com) A380 steep take-off at the Paris Air Show in June 2007
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Submitted: Thursday (07/02) 07:59PM EDT by mduell
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(www.bea.aero) Interim report from the BEA on the AFR447 accident. (pdf)
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Submitted: Monday (06/29) 10:59AM EDT by cbw
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(www.youtube.com) Cockpit video of a Blue Angels Demonstration. Pretty Spectacular
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Submitted: Wednesday (07/01) 04:08PM EDT by ozambrano
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(www.wral.com) A U.S. Airways flight from Charlotte en route to Los Angeles was diverted to Albuquerque briefly after a passenger removed his clothing and ran around the plane naked, Albuquerque CBS affiliate KRQE reported Wednesday.
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Submitted: Tuesday (06/23) 03:29PM EDT by karl
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(wattsupwiththat.com) As aircraft flights are diverted away from the region due to the risk of engine failure from ash ingestion, a fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev Volcano (Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009.
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Submitted: Thursday (06/25) 05:46PM EDT by mattdavis
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(abcnews.go.com) ABC News video about how U.S. Senators, while criticizing those who use corporate aircraft, utilize them as well.
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Submitted: Tuesday (06/30) 02:43PM EDT by saraland
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(www.msnbc.msn.com) As veteran staffers retire in droves, thousands of trainees direct planes.
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Submitted: Wednesday (07/01) 12:46PM EDT by dbaker
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(www.livescience.com) The electric SkySpark flew for the first time June 8, then on June 10 was airborne for 8 minutes and hit a top speed of 155 mph (250 km/h). That speed is said to be a record speed for a 100-percent electrically powered aircraft, according to SkySpark.
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Submitted: Wednesday (07/01) 08:17AM EDT by wager505
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(www.cnn.com) A student controller was directing planes during two runway mishaps in the past month at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, apparently giving instructions that placed planes on possible collision courses, federal investigators say
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Submitted: Wednesday (07/01) 12:07PM EDT by cbw
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(www.cnn.com) Article on the sole survivor of the Yemen Airplane Crash.
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Submitted: Wednesday (07/01) 09:50AM EDT by mattdavis
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(www.avweb.com) A new study suggests that rules enacted by the FAA in 1994 have contributed to an increase of weather related controlled flight into terrain accidents.
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Submitted: Thursday (07/02) 11:38AM EDT by mduell
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(www.cnn.com) PARIS, France (CNN) -- The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced Thursday.
Based on visual study of the physical remains of the Airbus A330 that have been recovered, "we were able to see that the plane hit the surface of the water flat. Therefore everything was pushed upwards -- everthing was pushed from the bottom to the top" of the plane, he said.
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Submitted: Monday (06/29) 12:49AM EDT by EverettBoy
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(www.fleetbuzzeditorial.com) Analysis of the 787 delays and the second line
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Submitted: Wednesday (07/01) 03:02PM EDT by AreThree
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(www.independent.co.uk) A plane carrying almost 200 passengers had a close shave with a tractor lawnmower as it landed on a foggy night, it was disclosed today. The driver of the sit-on mower did not even notice the Boeing 757 until its wing passed over his head as he cut grass near runways at Dublin Airport.
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Submitted: Friday (06/26) 05:31PM EDT by tomseagraves
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(www.foxnews.com) The National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement that the first incident occurred May 21 when TAM Airlines Flight 8091 flying from Miami to Sao Paulo, Brazil, experienced a loss of primary speed and altitude information while cruising.
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Submitted: Thursday (07/02) 12:07PM EDT by karl
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(www.wired.com) Armed with a lawn chair, 42 helium-filled weather balloons, beer and sandwiches, and a pellet gun, Larry Walters made history, entering the LAX bravo airspace without a clearance and causing a power outage to a Long Beach neighborhood.
He was charged with operating an aircraft near an airport without establishing and maintaining two-way communications with the control tower and operating a civil aircraft for which there is not currently in effect an Airworthiness Certificate.
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Submitted: Monday (06/29) 01:56PM EDT by cbw
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(airplanepilot.blogspot.com) Pretty cool description of using the equipment in your aircraft in different ways when in an emergency. My favorite part of the article below:
"In the simulator, the instructor understood it too, saw that the pilot had this extreme situation under control, and thus said, "we're done." And the pilot got to keep his job for another six months."
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Submitted: Monday (06/22) 08:17AM EDT by wager505
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(www.cnn.com) Pilot buries friend to save life after helicopter crash in Australia.
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Submitted: Sunday (06/28) 10:00PM EDT by makonyy15
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(www.cnn.com) (CNN) -- You pay for checking your baggage, for snacks and for extra legroom. Word is one airline has even toyed with charging you to use the toilet. So it makes perfect sense to some fliers that heavier passengers should pay for spilling over into the next seat.
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Submitted: Monday (06/29) 10:59AM EDT by EugenePope
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(www.abcnews.go.com) Billy Mays, the TV pitchman who died recently complained to his wife about head trauma suffered during a rough landing in Tampa aboard US Airways flight.
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Submitted: Thursday (07/02) 08:12AM EDT by makonyy15
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(www.cnn.com) CNN) -- Reports of a lone child having survived Tuesday's crash of a Yemenia Airways flight in the Indian Ocean have people wondering: How does anyone survive a plane crash?
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Submitted: Thursday (06/25) 10:49PM EDT by eatnoodle
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(www.foxnews.com) An interior Alaska community with just 46 residents is in line for a new $21 million airport.
The state received a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to build the airport at Takotna 17 miles west of McGrath and 300 miles west of Fairbanks.
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Submitted: Tuesday (06/30) 07:53AM EDT by wager505
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(www.cnn.com) Young child recovered alive from Yemeni jet crash in Indian Ocean
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Submitted: Tuesday (06/30) 09:22AM EDT by dbaker
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(www.msnbc.msn.com) SAN'A, Yemen - A passenger jet carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean in bad weather early Tuesday while trying to land at the island nation of Comoros. Search teams rescued a child from the sea, officials said, but there was no word on other survivors.
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Submitted: Monday (06/29) 06:38PM EDT by dbaker
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(www.chron.com) Continental Airlines’ request for antitrust immunity to join an alliance with United Airlines and other carriers is too expansive and could hurt competition in Latin America and the Pacific, the U.S. Justice Department said in a regulatory filing.
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Submitted: Wednesday (06/24) 09:40AM EDT by mattdavis
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(www.avweb.com) The co-founder of Platinum Jet Management, whose Challenger business jet went off the end of the runway at Teterboro Airport in 2005, has pleaded guilty to fraud charges for flying more than 100 charters without the proper certification. Andre Budhan could go to jail for up to four years after the investigation into the Teterboro crash turned into a criminal probe.
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