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Airplane Crashes Into Wild Pig On Runway, Reveals Zimbabwe's Air Safety Failures

Times Online | Jan Raath | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Harare International Airport, Air Zimbabwe Plane, World News, Air Zimbabwe, Pig Strike, Harare, Inflation, Mugabe, Air Safety, Africa, Zimbabwe Infrastructure, Morgan Tsvangirai, Bird Strike, Plane Hits Pig, World News

It took a wild pig on the runway at Harare International Airport to reveal what many Zimbabweans have long feared: the country's Civil Aviation Author...

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Bird Strike Sends Delta Flight Back To Phoenix Airport

AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Bird Strikes, Faa, Phoenix Airport, Travel, Arizona, Pilots, Utah, Ntsb, Sky Harbor, Phoenix, Air Safety, Miracle on the Hudson, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Salt Lake City, Flock, Delta, Bird Strike, Airlines, Home News

PHOENIX — Authorities say a Delta Air Lines flight headed to Utah has safely returned to Phoenix after one or more birds hit the aircraft. Fede...

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Air Sickness

Lloyd Garver | Posted 11.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Cell Phone Addiction, Pilots With Laptops, Computer Addiction, Air Safety, Northwest Airlines, Living News
Lloyd Garver

We've all gotten so absorbed in our computers that we lose track of everything else. Of course, when I do it, I don't have 144 passengers sitting behind me.

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Northwest Pilots Who Overshot Minneapolis Airport Say They Were Working On Laptops

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their p...

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Feds Interview Northwest Pilots Who Overshot Minneapolis Airport

AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Northwest Airlines, Minnesota, Crime, Minneapolis, Pilots, Missed Airport, Investigation, Ntsb, Air Safety, Overshot, Crew, Feds, Northwest Pilots, Delta, Sleeping, Asleep, Overshoot, Probe, Home News

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Federal investigators interviewed the crew of the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles on ...

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Mystery Grows: Why Is Bush Admin Suppressing Air Safety Survey?

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Air Safety, Politics News

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which has a mandate to enhance the safety of air travel, has been suppressing huge quantities of da...

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