May 2009
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Pilots in Buffalo Crash May Have Been Fatigued
The co-pilot in a February airline crash that killed 50 people in upstate New York was paid a salary so low that she was living with her parents in Seattle and commuting across the country to her job, according to testimony Wednesday.
Airline officials acknowledged at the hearing that Shaw, 24, was paid at a rate of about $23 an hour. They did not dispute an NTSB investigator who said she made...
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“In the Left Behind novels, however, the Book of Revelation is treated as a sort...”
– Gene Lyons, “The Apocalypse Will Be Televised”
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miss your flight?
Other adjustments can be more painful, especially for travelers used to ordering up the company plane. After years of flying privately, with special meals and attentive service, they find themselves in unfamiliar public territory.
That was true for Mr. Henderson, who like other auto industry executives was stung by a Congressional rebuke last fall, when it emerged that they traveled in their...
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April 2009
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6 air crashes, and he walked away!
Word Productions releases book by Gary Jenkinson “I Never Fly Alone” May 2009. Gary gives a recount that is both dramatic and exciting, confirming the supernatural power of God to protect him…to protect US!…to provide divine interventions in a life! Gary is a commercial airplane and helicopter pilot as well as a flight instructor in single and multi-engine airplanes. He...
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korean airlines flight 801
Agana Flight Control Tower, Local Control (LC): Well we're missing a Boeing 747 standby. Just checked with Andersen they don't know where he's at either.
Guam Combined Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP): Is it raining out there?
LC: I got wet runway but ah--I've got a small ah shower pushing through but I don't have ah but I can see the approach end---standby a second.
LC: Korean Air 801 heavy, Agana tower.
LC: Is that him talking to you?
CERAP: Negative.
LC: I don't have him---he called me once, I cleared him to land, told him not in sight, and I don't have him.
CERAP: Well he must have crashed then.
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europe starts inquiry of airline alliances
The commission, the executive body of the European Union, said cooperation between members of the alliances that served trans-Atlantic routes “was far more extensive” than cooperation between alliance members in other parts of the world, and that it would handle the investigation “as a matter of priority.”
Mr. Goodfellow said the trans-Atlantic aviation market was already highly competitive, with...
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six killed in Indonesian plane crash
The Avia Star was carrying food and building supplies from the provincial capital, Jayapura, to the nearby district of Wamena, said Major General Bagus Ekodanto, the local police chief.
There are few roads in Papua, which occupies the western half of New Guinea, and air travel is a necessity.
It is considered one of the world’s most dangerous places to fly. Many areas are...
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who survives a plane crash?
Optimism is a critical survival tool, but only when it’s balanced with realism. This concept is known as the Stockdale Paradox, named after Admiral James Stockdale, the highest-ranking American prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The idea was popularized by author Jim Collins in his best-selling book Good to Great. When Collins asked Stockdale to explain which American prisoners did not survive captivity...
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