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How to Recline Your Airplane Seat Without Being a Dick
Modern life may be filled with mundane annoyances, but nothing dehydrates the soul quite like commercial air travel. Stressed, scanned, patted down, and crammed in, airline passengers seem to be...
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A Bird Strike Caused an Air Force Plane to Accidentally Drop Three Training...
According to the FAA, over 14,000 bird strikes happen every year at US airports. Most of the time they’re inconsequential, occasionally they can cause a lot of damage, but things could have been...
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Video Captures Delta Air Lines MD-88 Engine Failing Mid-Flight Before...
There are many things that one never wants to see out a plane window, and this is definitely one of them. In a video posted to Twitter by user Logan Webb, one of Delta Flight 1425's engines can...
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'Turn it Off and On Again Every 149 Hours' Is a Concerning Remedy for a $300...
Having to occasionally reboot a sluggish laptop after a few days of use is a minor inconvenience for a $1,000 gadget. But what about a $300 million+ commercial plane? Airlines who haven’t performed a...
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The Air Force's New Robot Can Fly Any Plane and Turn It Into an Autonomous Drone
Unmanned aircraft are the future of military aviation, minimizing the risks to human pilots during dangerous missions and hazardous operations. Autonomous planes have already been put into service but...
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American Airlines Mechanic Charged with Sabotaging Flight
An aircraft mechanic has been charged with tampering with an American Airlines airplane before a flight of 150 passengers was scheduled to take off. Read more...
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19 Climate Change Activists Arrested for Drone Protest Against Heathrow...
UK police have now arrested at least 19 environmental activists who threatened to fly drones and disrupt air travel at Heathrow Airport in protest of the planned construction of a third runway at the...
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FAA Orders Inspection of Boeing 737 Next Generation Jets After Discovery of...
Boeing, already having taken a $4.9 billion after-tax charge this year amid the ongoing fallout from two deadly 737 Max crashes, now has problems with a different line of planes.Read more...
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Boeing Engineer Filed Ethics Complaint Over Scrapped 737 Max Safety System:...
According to an internal complaint submitted by a Boeing engineer after this year’s 737 Max crashes, the company declined to put a proposed safety system in the plane in an effort to keep costs low—a...
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American Airlines Says It Expects to Start Flying Troubled Boeing 737 Max...
American Airlines said on Wednesday that it expects its fleet of Boeing 737 Max jets to return to passenger service later than expected on Jan. 16, 2020, after the Federal Aviation Administration and...
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FAA Says Pilots Complained of 'Egregious' Issues With 737 Max In Messages...
The Federal Aviation Administration has accused Boeing of withholding an exchange between two employees showing their concerns about the 737 Max’s malfunctioning automated system a full two years...
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Why Am I Suddenly Afraid of Flying?
For years you’ve flown without issue—no breathing exercises, no pills—but suddenly you can’t board without picturing catastrophe. No one you know has recently died in a crash; you have not, to your...
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Boeing Halts 737 MAX Production
Boeing will halt production on its infamous 737 MAX plane nine months after authorities grounded the passenger airliner following crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that took 346 lives.Read more...
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Boeing Fires CEO Following 737 MAX Disasters
Boeing has fired its CEO, Dennis A. Muilenburg, and will replace him with its current chairman, David L. Calhoun. A new press release from the company claims that Muilenburg had resigned, but that same...
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The FAA Wants to Follow Your Drones Like You Use Them to Follow Me
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed new rules for unmanned aerial vehicles that would require virtually every drone in the country to broadcast its location when flying, Bloomberg reported...
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The Baffling Case of Colorado's Mystery Drones
Local authorities are dumbfounded by a flock of drones that recently began performing nighttime flights over northeast Colorado with no apparent purpose or operators (at least, none they’ve been able...
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Everything We Know About the Plane Crash in Iran That Killed 176 People
A Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, Iran, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, killing all 176 passengers and crew on board. The cause of the...
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Boeing Emails Reveal Employees Talking Shit About The 737 Max Before Deadly...
New emails and direct messages released by Boeing to congressional investigators reveal some shocking messages from Boeing employees about both their own planes and the regulators overseeing the safety...
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Iran Says It "Unintentionally" Shot Down Ukrainian Airlines Flight
Iran’s military admitted to “unintentionally” shooting down a Ukrainian International Airlines passenger jet that crashed shortly after takeoff earlier this week, per a recent Associated Press...
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60 People Treated After Delta Flight Dumps Jet Fuel on Los Angeles County
Around 60 people in Los Angeles County were treated by first responders after a jet returning to Los Angeles International Airport dumped its fuel in mid-air, showering at least five elementary schools...
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