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Submitted: Wednesday (12/31) 12:08PM EST by mduell
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(www.wowt.com) The FBI is looking into a bizarre and frightening incident aboard a commercial jet heading from Houston to Omaha last Friday involving an unstable passenger.
It began with a middle-aged man leaving the plane's lavatory covered in his own feces. "Oh, it was awful. It was worse than that."
Stacey, from Houston, who asked that we not use her last name, says the small commuter jet had just one flight attendant in the cabin, a young man who moved the other passengers forward to empty seats and kept the unkept passenger in the back row.
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Submitted: Friday (01/02) 01:07PM EST by jawad101
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(business.smh.com.au) THE workhorse of Australia's domestic airline industry, the Boeing 737, is set to dominate skies until well into the next two decades as its US manufacturer puts on the backburner plans to develop a more fuel-efficient replacement for the aircraft.
The manufacturer told Bloomberg yesterday that it was studying new "product enhancements" because replacement plans for the 737 aircraft have been delayed toward the end of the next decade.
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Submitted: Friday (01/02) 12:54PM EST by jawad101
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(www.nbcwashington.com) The Council on American-Islamic Relations said that nine American Muslims, most of them headed to Florida for a vacation with family members, were removed from an AirTran Airways flight Thursday afternoon at Reagan National Airport.
The group said the incident began when another passenger complained about something that was said while boarding.
"We were talking about seat placement," one of the detained passengers said. "We were in the back ... started talking about safest place to sit. Maybe someone gleaned into that that we were planning to do something to the plane."
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Submitted: Tuesday (12/30) 11:04AM EST by AndyM
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(www.jsonline.com) Skywest flight SKW2718 operated for Midwest Connect.
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Submitted: Monday (01/05) 03:03PM EST by jawad101
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(it.youtube.com) Video gives a 3D walk through of the features on a 747-8I Interior.
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Submitted: Monday (12/29) 06:05PM EST by lynch75
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(www.flightglobal.com) A Mesa Airlines CRJ200 pilot with undiagnosed severe sleep apnea told NTSB investigators that he had intentionally "napped in the cockpit" about once per week during a temporary assignment flying for Mesa's Hawaii-based subsidiary, go! Airlines.
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Submitted: Tuesday (12/30) 03:19PM EST by jawad101
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(www.flightglobal.com) Belgian investigators believe a bird-strike on a Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200 freighter at Brussels Airport triggered the crew to abort take-off at a late stage, causing the jet to overrun and break up.
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Submitted: Tuesday (12/30) 03:38PM EST by dbaker
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(www.nasa.gov) NASA commissioned the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) to conduct a thorough review
of both the technical and the organizational causes of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew
on February 1, 2003.
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Submitted: Thursday (01/01) 10:13PM EST by NWAARJ
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(wcco.com) I got to work this emergency into Fargo the other day. The pilots said they were losing power in one of the engines. The next day they did alot of runups, blew snow all over the place, and ferried it back to Minneapolis.
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Submitted: Friday (01/02) 01:06PM EST by jawad101
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(www.nytimes.com) A Japanese man on a tourist visa who, for no apparent reason, had been sleeping in a Mexico City airport since Sept. 2 has moved to an apartment.
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Submitted: Wednesday (12/31) 09:44AM EST by nugget
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(tukopamoja.wordpress.com) Traveller tells an amusing story about Nigerian overbooking policies on a flight leaving Lagos.
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Submitted: Monday (12/29) 10:41AM EST by rboltz
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(seattletimes.nwsource.com) Two flights bound for the Midwest from Seattle were canceled this morning when the passenger-filled planes backed into each other as they left their gates, airport officials said.
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Submitted: Wednesday (12/31) 12:33PM EST by jawad101
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(news.yahoo.com) In Brazil's legal system, police ask a judge to indict a suspect. The judge then determines if charges are filed. Constantino has yet to be charged in either case.
A spokeswoman for the Federal District's civil police confirmed the request for indictment. She spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department rules.
Constantino is one of Brazil's wealthiest and most influential business players. His fortune is estimated at more than $1 billion.
A former long-haul trucker who started a bus company in the 1950s that became one of the country's biggest, Constantino started Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA with his sons. The budget airline began flying in 2001 and quickly made inroads into the Brazilian market.
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Submitted: Wednesday (12/31) 11:37AM EST by jawad101
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(www.gulfnews.com) The government of Dubai has transferred ownership of Emirates airline and air travel services firm Dnata to state-owned Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), Emirates said yesterday.
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Submitted: Tuesday (12/30) 03:34PM EST by naemick
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(www.smh.com.au) Almost 200 Qantas passengers were stranded in Tokyo last night after a flight to Sydney experienced engine trouble shortly after take-off.
The captain in charge of QF22 elected to return to Narita International Airport, Tokyo, shortly after take-off due to an "engine minor fault", a Qantas spokesman said.
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Submitted: Monday (12/29) 05:17PM EST by rboltz
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(seattletimes.nwsource.com) Northwest Airlines wants to postpone the planned March debut of its Seattle-Beijing route by a year, industry publication Aviation Week reports. The Delta subsidiary requested the deferral in a filing with the U.S. Department of Transportation, which approved the route.
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Submitted: Tuesday (12/30) 03:36PM EST by naemick
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(www.smh.com.au) A MIDAIR emergency involving a sick Qantas passenger forced the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, to touch down in Fiji for the first time yesterday.
But what was supposed to be a quick turnaround became an overnight holiday in paradise after an onboard computer problem was unable to be fixed by local engineers.
Flight QF12, with 337 passengers on board, was 10 hours and 45 minutes into its journey from Los Angeles to Sydney when a male passenger apparently suffered diabetic shock.
Kristen Zaleski, from Los Angeles, said she saw flight attendants administering oxygen to the ill man.
The captain of the A380, which began operations only one week earlier, made the decision to land the jet at Fiji's international airport in Nadi, where the runway is several hundred metres shorter than the one used by A380s at Sydney Airport.
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Submitted: Tuesday (12/30) 07:57AM EST by rboltz
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(seattletimes.nwsource.com) A passenger jet powered in part by vegetable oil successfully completed a two-hour flight Tuesday to test a biofuel that could lower airplane emissions and cut costs, Air New Zealand said. One engine of a Boeing 747-400 airplane was powered by a 50-50 blend of oil from jatropha plants and standard A1 jet fuel.
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Submitted: Friday (12/26) 04:29AM EST by naemick
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(www.smh.com.au) A nine-year-old child and his uncle were rescued after a paragliding accident left them stranded about 10 metres down a cliff on Sydney's northern beaches today.
The child was strapped to his uncle when unusual gusts of wind blew them against the cliff face at the northern end of Warriewood Beach.
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Submitted: Friday (12/26) 04:28AM EST by naemick
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(www.smh.com.au) UPSIDE DOWN and injured in the mangled wreckage of his single-engine Cessna 172, Scott Kennedy-Green managed to reach for his UHF radio.
"Crashed aeroplane. Anyone copy?" the renowned Sydney auctioneer pleaded from the side of a ravine, as his brother-in-law, Matthew Green, 32, bled heavily beside him.
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