You may remember reading about the woman who was killed while in police custody at the Phoenix airport. The woman, Carol Anne Gotbaum, was on her way to rehab when she was denied boarding on a plane...
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It hasn't been a great week for the airlines. Last week alone, we've learned the on-time arrival rate is the worst in 13 years and that two pilots fell asleep on a flight from Baltimore to...
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It's already enough that we have to worry about our flights arriving on time. Now, we have to worry about if our pilots can stay awake. According to an article on MSNBC, two pilots fell asleep on...
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Here's the best of the aviation news I missed. EADS Counts Cost Of A400M Delay EADS will take charges of between EUR1.2 billion and EUR1.4 billion euros (USD$1.74 billion - USD$2.02 billion)...
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Aviation history was made today when Airbus' A380 completed its first commercial flight. Loaded with 455 passengers, the world's largest jetliner left from Singapore to Sydney. According to...
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Searchers for aviator Steve Fossett may not be giving up, but his good friend Richard Branson is. Branson announced on NBC's Today show that "chances are that he's no longer with...
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This week in aviation history features the first woman to make a solo transcontinental flight and the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound. Also, admittedly, this is not an astronomy...
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After much anticipation and excitement, on Wednesday, Boeing acknowleged their 787 Dreamliner will be delayed by six months. The first test flight was pushed back until the end of the first quarter of...
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A woman was killed in a hot air balloon accident during a balloon festival when the basket of balloon got stuck. According to a Yahoo! news article, Rosemary Wooley Phillips of California fell up 70...
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Yesterday, searchers announced they were shifting focus for missing aviator Steve Fossett from the air to the ground. However, today, according to a Yahoo! news article, the search has been suspended...
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After being missing for more than a month, the search for aviator Steve Fossett continues. Earlier searches were conducted by plane, that yield numerous unknown crashed planes, but not Fossett. Now,...
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Less than a week after a One-Two-Go flight skidded off the runaway and killed 42 people, a small plane in Chattanooga, Tennessee flying from Birmingham, Alabama missed the runway and crashed into a...
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Officials are saying that the systems that detect wind shear were malfunctioning at the time of the deadly Phuket crashed that killed 89 people on Sunday. 41 passengers on the One-Two-Go flight from...
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I lived in New York during September 11th, so you can understand why that day is hard for me. I personally witnessed my favorite, vibrant city reduced to depressing and quiet one. Like so many others,...
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After more than a week, survival experts are now saying the odds of finding Steve Fossett are slim. I personally find it frustrating and hard to believe that a dozen airplanes have not been able to at...
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A week has past and aviator Steve Fossett is still missing. According to a ABC News article, searchers have found six previous wrecks, but there's still no sign of Fossett. Fossett took off in a...
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The search for aviator Steve Fossett continued for the second straight day. However, according to a Yahoo! News article, his plane may have encountered heavy Sierra Nevada winds, which have claimed...
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According to a Yahoo! News story, Steve Fossett, aviation pioneer and the first person to circle the world solo, is missing after searching for locations for another aviation record for land-speed. He...
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Today, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it's requiring inspections on all 737 airliners. The move was prompted by a series of airline incidents and crashes, most notably, the China...
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With overcrowded planes, fares at all-time highs, and on-time arrivals plummeting, the last thing airlines need is more problems. However, things just got worse for British Airways and Korean Air. On...
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Things are not going well for China Airlines. Days after one of their planes burst into fire, another one of their planes had to be diverted to Japan after running low on fuel. Chao Kuo-shuai, CEO of...
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