Category Archives: Airplane

Air travel paralyzed as volcanic ash cloud lingers

By doris | Published: April 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com London, England (CNN) — European countries extended their airspace restrictions on Saturday, choking international air travel and stranding thousands of passengers, as an Icelandic volcano continued to spew ash into the atmosphere. Airspace over the United Kingdom and Belgium will be closed until Saturday night, according to the British air traffic [...]

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Volcano flight chaos to continue for 24 hours

By doris | Published: April 16, 2010

Full Story at  msnbc.com LONDON – The European air navigation agency says air traffic disruptions because the volcanic ash cloud will last at least another day. Eurocontrol said in a statement that it expected only about 11,000 flights in European airspace Friday, compared with about 28,000 normally. On Thursday, there were 20,334 flights, it said. [...]

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U.S. airports to adopt ‘tailored’ terror screening

By doris | Published: April 2, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The Obama administration is abandoning its policy of using nationality alone to determine which U.S.-bound international air travelers should be subject to additional screening and will instead select passengers based on possible matches to intelligence information, including physical descriptions or a particular travel pattern, senior officials said Thursday.

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Memo blasts air traffic controller and supervisor over ‘kids’ incident

By doris | Published: March 5, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — “Unauthorized and unprofessional” is how an internal memo describes the conduct of an air traffic controller, who allegedly allowed his two young children to speak with pilots on an air traffic control frequency, and his supervisor, who allegedly allowed it to happen. The memo, dated February 25, [...]

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Small plane crashes at mid-NJ airport, killing 5

By doris | Published: February 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A small plane trying to land broke apart and tore through a snowy field next to a runway Monday afternoon, killing all five people aboard, including a teenager and a child, and scattering debris over 200 feet. The crash was reported at 3:45 p.m. at Monmouth Executive [...]

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First U.S. military aid reaches quake-stricken Haiti

By doris | Published: January 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — With the first of its flights touching down in earthquake-devastated Haiti late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. began deploying military planes, ships and ground troops to the Caribbean nation. One of two planes carrying a 30-person assessment team arrived at Port-au-Prince airport about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The team will [...]

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TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive

By doris | Published: January 3, 2010

Full Story at Wired.com Two bloggers received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents Tuesday after they published a new TSA directive that revises screening procedures and puts new restrictions on passengers in the wake of a recent bombing attempt by the so-called underwear bomber. Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogated two [...]

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Failed Attack Signals New Threat?

By doris | Published: December 27, 2009

Full Story at CBS News.com (CBS/AP) U.S. counterterrorism officials are scrambling to assess a potential new threat from an explosive mixture that evaded detection aboard a Detroit-bound airliner but failed to bring down the plane. The suspect, identified by multiple law enforcement officials as a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, claimed to have ties [...]

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Passenger: Terror suspect seemed ‘stunned’

By doris | Published: December 26, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Syed Jafry was preparing for his plane to land in Detroit, Michigan, after a long flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, when he heard a noise that startled him. “There was a little bit of light, a little bit of — kind of flamish light and there was fire,” Jafry told [...]

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Suspect in 1968 hijacking at JFK is captured

By doris | Published: October 12, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Luis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, surrendered to federal authorities at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after exiting a flight from Havana, Cuba, officials said. It’s the same airport from which Pan Am Flight 281 took off more than 40 years ago. He flew to New York under the custody [...]

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Pre-emptive triage up for bleeding airlines

By doris | Published: September 11, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com With more than $6 billion in losses through June, the global airline industry is on track to outpace the initial yearlong prediction that it would lose $9 billion, said Brian Pearce, chief economist for the International Air Transport Association, which represents about 230 airlines. “Airlines are in survival mode,” as they [...]

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Hudson air crash probe focuses on controller; union cries foul

By doris | Published: August 16, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In a report, the National Transportation Safety Board said that the controller at New Jersey’s Teterboro airport did not advise a pilot of potential traffic when he handed off radar monitoring of the plane to the tower at Newark airport at 11:52:20 a.m. Saturday. But, union leaders said, the helicopter was [...]

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NASA patches air-purifying system on station

By doris | Published: July 27, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A space station air purifier was working again Sunday after it shut down at the worst possible time, when company was still visiting and had swollen the on-board crowd to a record 13. The repair by flight controllers, albeit temporary, came as a great relief to NASA. [...]

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Common GPS Could Help Better Track Airline Flights

By doris | Published: June 4, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com CHICAGO – Get lost in the woods and a cell phone in your pocket can help camping buddies find you. Drive into a ditch and GPS in your car lets emergency crews pinpoint the crash site. But when a transcontinental flight is above the middle of the ocean, no one on [...]

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NASA set for dramatic shuttle rescue

By doris | Published: May 11, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com HOUSTON – As NASA prepares for its final service call to the Hubble Space Telescope, it’s also preparing for something never attempted in the history of the shuttle program: a rescue operation so dramatic that Hollywood would be hard-pressed to come up with a more outlandish plot. If the Hubble repair [...]

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NTSB: Plane Plunged Flat To The Ground

By doris | Published: February 15, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) Here in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center, the sadness and dismay linger on Saturday night as workers press their search for the cause of Thursday’s deadly air crash, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor. Officials say the recovery of bodies and debris will take days, not hours, the [...]

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Plane crashes into suburban Buffalo-area home; 49 killed

By doris | Published: February 13, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air, was en route from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo when it went down at around 10:20 p.m. The crash occurred about seven miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

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