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Airliners nearly collide over sea
Two airliners were one minute from colliding when at least one of the planes turned away from the other over the Caribbean this week, federal authorities said Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was investigating the incident,...Tags: Transportation Industry, Delta Air Lines
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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: AT HOME
Leaders of Boeing Co.'s machinists union called for a strike Friday after deciding a proposed labor contract the aerospace company called its "best and final" offer wasn't good enough. They urged members to reject the offer in an upcoming vote. The...Tags: Boeing Co., Transportation Industry, Delta Air Lines, Labor Legislation, Prosecution
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Plane Flips; Pilot Cut On Chin
A pilot escaped serious injury when his airplane crashed at Danielson Airport Wednesday night, police said. The pilot was preparing to land about 7:15 p.m. when the plane lost power, a state trooper from the Troop D barracks said. The plane flipped,...Tags: Air and Aviation Sports
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GR hospital to resume using helipad post-crash
Spectrum Health plans to enlarge and enhance the helipad atop Butterworth Hospital in downtown Grand Rapids where two people narrowly avoided serious injury in the crash of a medical helicopter. The health system's Aero Med helicopter service hasn't...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Policies
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Fugitive suspect arrested at NYC airport
A man suspected in a fatal hit-and-run accident on Long Island has been arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport aboard a flight to Poland. Suffolk County Assistant District Attorney Glenn Kurtzrock says 22-year-old Lukasz Bienczyk (BEE' en...Tags: Police, Kennedy Airport, Long Island, Police Arrests
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6 decades of flying high
Special to The Baltimore SunMary Feik remembers all too well the day she applied for admission to the engineering department at the University of Buffalo in 1941. The registrar looked her up and down several times, she recalls, and turned her down without looking at her credentials....Tags: Armed Forces, NASA, Maryland, Ohio, Amelia Earhart
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United, pilots trade charges
Chicago Tribune reporterNo one disputes that relations between United Airlines and its pilots have gone from bad to worse over the past two years. But in a courtroom showdown in Chicago that began Wednesday, lawyers for United and its pilots union gave very different...Tags: National Government, Work Relations, Government, Los Angeles, United Airlines
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Controller blamed for Teterboro runway mishap
Associated Press WriterFederal investigators have blamed an error by an air traffic controller for a runway mishap at Teterboro Airport last month. A report released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board faulted air traffic control for not directing a Cessna to...Tags: Emergency Planning, Air Transportation, Transportation Industry, Air Transportation Industry, Health and Safety at Work
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Fall preview
action/adventure APPALOOSA (Warner Bros.) A Western about a new sheriff and his deputy squaring off against a powerful rancher. With Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger and Ed Harris. Opens Oct. 3. ASHES OF TIME REDUX ( Sony Pictures Classics) A broken-...Tags: Gillian Anderson, Changeling, High Schools, Murder, Tyler Perry
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Investigators probe crash of plane in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah Investigators had little more than ash and blackened shards of metal to sift through yesterday as they tried to figure out what caused a twin-engine plane to crash shortly after taking off, killing all 10 people on board. An NTSB crew...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Utah
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Guatemala plane crash kills 10
GUATEMALA CITY A small plane carrying U.S. humanitarian workers crashed in a field in eastern Guatemala yesterday, killing 10 people, including five Americans, an aviation official and a survivor said. The Cessna Caravan 208 crashed about 60 miles east of...Tags: Society
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Plane's engine trouble forces emergency landing near Maple Park
A pilot made an emergency landing about 4:40 p.m. Sunday near Maple Park after his plane experienced engine trouble. There were no injuries reported, and the pilot told police that he would have the plane removed from the farm field along Harter Road,...Tags: Air Transportation, Air Transportation Industry, Transportation
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