Category Archives: Airplane

Dying veteran protests Spirit Airlines’ no-refund policy

By doris | Published: April 26, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com Jerry Meekins, who is battling cancer, has a new foe: Spirit Airlines. Meekins recently purchased an airline ticket from Spirit Airlines to visit his daughter in New Jersey. “Two weeks after I bought the ticket, I found out I was terminal,” Meekins, a Vietnam veteran, told NBC affiliate WFLA-TV in Tampa, [...]

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Cell phone in cockpit distracted Jetstar pilot, led to ‘missed approach,’ report finds

By doris | Published: April 21, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com You know that pre-flight announcement urging you to shut down your cell phone before takeoff? Perhaps it should be mandatory in the cockpit as well. It turns out a pilot’s chiming phone onboard a Jetstar flight was part of a chain of events that ultimately forced the crew to execute a [...]

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Space Shuttle Discovery Mounted Atop Jumbo Jet for Ride to Smithsonian

By doris | Published: April 16, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NASA mounted space shuttle Discovery on a jumbo jet Sunday (April 15), in preparation for the retired orbiter’s delivery to the Smithsonian. The paired air- and spacecraft are expected to depart Florida for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning (April 17), weather permitting. Discovery’s mating to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA’s [...]

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Plane carrying 43 passengers crashes in Siberia

By doris | Published: April 2, 2012

Full Story at WorldNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 8:24 a.m. ET: MOSCOW — Thirty-two people were killed but 11 were rescued alive from a plane crash in Siberia, Russia, an official reportedly said Monday. The ATR 72, a twin-engine, turbo-prop plane, with 43 people aboard, crashed some 18 to 22 miles from the western Siberian city of [...]

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Airlines successfully hike airfares for third time this year

By doris | Published: March 27, 2012

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com Updated March 27, 10:50 a.m. ET — U.S. legacy and low-fare airlines have agreed to increase airfares by up to $10 on roundtrip flights. Airlines have attempted five fare increases so far this year, and three have stuck. In the second quarter of 2011, prices jumped twice, Rick Seaney, CEO of [...]

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Australian airline runs out of money, stranding thousands

By doris | Published: February 20, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Thousands of travelers have been left in the lurch around the world after the carrier Air Australia went into administration and grounded its fleet Friday. “It currently appears that there are no funds available to meet operational expenses so flights will be suspended immediately,” the company said in joint [...]

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Nigerian underwear bomber to be sentenced in Detroit

By doris | Published: February 16, 2012

Full Story at Yahoo.com DETROIT (Reuters) – A federal judge is set to decide on Thursday if the Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit in 2009 will spend the rest of his life in prison. A bomb hidden in the underwear of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, [...]

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Mail call: Sending love to troops abroad

By doris | Published: December 11, 2011

Full Story at CBSNews.com For military personnel far from home for the holidays . . . few sounds are more welcome than the words MAIL CALL. And dedicated volunteers here on the home front are working hard to make sure that none our troops anywhere in the world is disappointed. Our Cover Story is reported [...]

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3 dead, more than 50 hurt in Nev. air race crash

By doris | Published: September 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com RENO, Nev. (AP) — As thousands watched in horror, a World War II-era fighter plane competing in a Nevada event described as a car race in the sky suddenly pitched upward, rolled and did a nose-dive toward the crowded grandstand. The plane, flown by a 74-year-old veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, then [...]

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After a decade of grief and recovery, nation remembers 9/11

By doris | Published: September 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Thousands gathered Sunday morning at New York’s Ground Zero, stood still in silence, some crying as they listened to the names of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks were read aloud. “They were our neighbors, our friends, our wives, children and parents,” said New York Mayor [...]

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Airbus soars over Boeing, saleswise, at air show

By doris | Published: June 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LE BOURGET, France — Airbus is trouncing Boeing in the race to be the world’s biggest plane maker, claiming over $72 billion dollars worth of orders and commitments at the Paris Air Show, where the popularity of its new fuel-efficient jets twice broke records for the largest order ever. Airbus’ success [...]

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NASA may try Monday for shuttle launch

By doris | Published: April 29, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NASA hopes to try again Monday for one of the highest-profile space shuttle launches, after delaying the mission Friday due to a problem with a heater in one of Endeavour’s auxiliary power units. The countdown was called off even as the shuttle’s six-man crew was heading for Launch Pad 39A. Liftoff [...]

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Boeing didn’t expect 737 cracks so soon

By doris | Published: April 5, 2011

! NewsFull Story at news.hoo PHOENIX – Boeing was surprised when a section of a Southwest jetliner’s fuselage ripped open in flight because the plane wasn’t old enough to be worrisome, a company official said Tuesday, as the airline cleared most of its older 737 planes to return to the skies. Southwest said it had [...]

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Controller, airline crew suspended over incident in Florida skies

By doris | Published: March 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — An air traffic control supervisor and the crew of a Southwest Airlines jet have been suspended after the controller asked the Southwest Boeing 737 to fly in the vicinity of a small Cirrus aircraft in an effort to check on the welfare of the pilot, authorities said. The [...]

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US warplane crashes, Libya policy in flames

By doris | Published: March 23, 2011

Full Story at EconomicTimes.indiatimes.com WASHINGTON: A US F-15 fighter jet went down in flames while enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya while ground fighting raged on Tuesday even as Washington’s interventionist policy in the region teetered over the lack of clarity about its intention and the endgame. Equipment malfunction was cited as the reason for [...]

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Missiles strike Libya in first wave of allied assault

By doris | Published: March 19, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com BENGHAZI, Libya — A coalition of American and European forces bombed Libyan targets by air and sea Saturday in the first phase of a military campaign to drive Moammar Gadhafi from power. French warplanes fired the first shots in the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war, destroying government tanks [...]

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Toddler reportedly locked in plane’s overhead bin

By doris | Published: March 6, 2011

Full Story atmsnbc.com A Virgin Blue flight attendant was fired after an angry mother claimed he locked her toddler son in an overhead bin, the Sunday Herald Sun reports. Natalie Williamson told the newspaper that she, her 17-month-old son, Riley, and her now estranged husband were traveling on a Virgin flight from Fiji to Sydney, [...]

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9/11 workers approve settlement with New York City

By doris | Published: November 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — A settlement in New York City will pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to ground zero workers exposed to toxic debris after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, lawyers said Friday. Plaintiffs narrowly approved the deal after facing a Tuesday night deadline that required 95 percent [...]

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World’s first commercial spacecraft completes manned flight

By doris | Published: October 11, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A pair of pilots flew the world’s first manned commercial spacecraft over California’s Mojave Desert on Sunday, though they were the only ones aboard. The mission was a test flight for Richard Branson’s dream of affordable space travel and put his vision a step closer to reality, he said [...]

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U.S. to issue travel alert for Americans in Europe

By doris | Published: October 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department on Sunday will issue a travel “alert” urging American citizens to be vigilant as they travel in Europe, government officials told NBC News on Saturday. The alert is due to new al-Qaida threats although officials have not identified specific targets that terrorists might be considering, [...]

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