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Why Do Pilots Wash Airplane Windows With Soda? A Viral Video Has The Answer
A small preflight detail reveals how practicality and quick thinking often play a quiet role in aviation.
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Passenger Breaks Into Easyjet Cockpit, Forces Plane To Make U-Turn
A passenger suffering from delirium tried to break into the cockpit of an Easyjet flight from France to Portugal, forcing the jet to return to Lyon airport, police and the company said Saturday.
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"Lucky To Be Sitting Close To Cockpit": 1993 Indian Airlines Crash Survivor
Vasant Chavan, a former mayor of Parbhani, said that he survived the tragedy only because he was sitting near the cockpit and not in the rear part where the fuel tank was located.
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Passenger In US Arrested For Attempting To Enter Cockpit, Open Exit Doors During Takeoff
The plane had to eventually return to the gate, where law enforcement officers were waiting to detain the passenger.
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Passenger Tries To Break Into Cockpit On US Flight
A passenger on a US airplane tried to smash his way into the cockpit until another traveler and members of the air crew tackled him and pinned him down, witnesses said.
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China Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Window Cracks
An airplane flying from China to Vietnam turned back to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window, just two weeks after another airliner's cockpit window broke mid-flight in the country, state media said Wednesday.
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Aviation Regulator Wants To Clamp Down On In-Flight Selfies
Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) may soon ask airlines to strictly enforce a ban on taking pictures inside the cockpit and other critical areas of the airplane.
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Fasten Your Seatbelts and Prepare... to Stay at Home
Looking for that perfect gift for the aviation fan who has everything? One Japanese airline has the answer: a seat from a retired jumbo jet.
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FBI Offers Reward to Nab People Who Target Plane with Lasers
The FBI on Tuesday offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of people who point lasers into airplane cockpits, saying there has been a "disturbing" increase in the incidents.
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United Airlines Plane With Smoke in Cockpit Returns to Los Angeles
A United Airlines flight has arrived safely back at Los Angeles International Airport after smoke was reported in the cockpit and cabin during a flight to Hawaii.
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Malaysia changes version of last words from missing flight's cockpit
The last words spoken by one of the pilots of the missing Malaysian Airlines airliner to the control tower were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero", Malaysia's civil aviation authority said, changing the previous account of the last message as a more casual "All right, good night."
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Why do airplane transponders have an 'off switch?'
Ever since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, a fascinated public has asked: Why would somebody in the cockpit shut off the transponder?
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Malaysian airplane investigators look at suicide as possible motive
The co-pilot of a missing Malaysian jetliner spoke the last words heard from the cockpit, the airline's chief executive said, as investigators consider suicide by the captain or first officer as one possible explanation for the disappearance.
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Technical glitches ground Air India Dreamliner in Kuala Lumpur
An Air India Dreamliner, flying non-stop from Sydney to Delhi, with 215 people on board, today landed in Kuala Lumpur under emergency conditions after its cockpit panels suffered a software malfunction.
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Man tries to enter cockpit on flight from Dubai
Police at Arlanda airport in Stockholm have detained a man who tried to enter the cockpit on a flight from Dubai to Stockholm.
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Why Do Pilots Wash Airplane Windows With Soda? A Viral Video Has The Answer
A small preflight detail reveals how practicality and quick thinking often play a quiet role in aviation.
-
Passenger Breaks Into Easyjet Cockpit, Forces Plane To Make U-Turn
A passenger suffering from delirium tried to break into the cockpit of an Easyjet flight from France to Portugal, forcing the jet to return to Lyon airport, police and the company said Saturday.
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"Lucky To Be Sitting Close To Cockpit": 1993 Indian Airlines Crash Survivor
Vasant Chavan, a former mayor of Parbhani, said that he survived the tragedy only because he was sitting near the cockpit and not in the rear part where the fuel tank was located.
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Passenger In US Arrested For Attempting To Enter Cockpit, Open Exit Doors During Takeoff
The plane had to eventually return to the gate, where law enforcement officers were waiting to detain the passenger.
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Passenger Tries To Break Into Cockpit On US Flight
A passenger on a US airplane tried to smash his way into the cockpit until another traveler and members of the air crew tackled him and pinned him down, witnesses said.
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China Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Window Cracks
An airplane flying from China to Vietnam turned back to make an emergency landing after cracks appeared in a window, just two weeks after another airliner's cockpit window broke mid-flight in the country, state media said Wednesday.
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Aviation Regulator Wants To Clamp Down On In-Flight Selfies
Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) may soon ask airlines to strictly enforce a ban on taking pictures inside the cockpit and other critical areas of the airplane.
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Fasten Your Seatbelts and Prepare... to Stay at Home
Looking for that perfect gift for the aviation fan who has everything? One Japanese airline has the answer: a seat from a retired jumbo jet.
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FBI Offers Reward to Nab People Who Target Plane with Lasers
The FBI on Tuesday offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of people who point lasers into airplane cockpits, saying there has been a "disturbing" increase in the incidents.
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United Airlines Plane With Smoke in Cockpit Returns to Los Angeles
A United Airlines flight has arrived safely back at Los Angeles International Airport after smoke was reported in the cockpit and cabin during a flight to Hawaii.
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Malaysia changes version of last words from missing flight's cockpit
The last words spoken by one of the pilots of the missing Malaysian Airlines airliner to the control tower were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero", Malaysia's civil aviation authority said, changing the previous account of the last message as a more casual "All right, good night."
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Why do airplane transponders have an 'off switch?'
Ever since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, a fascinated public has asked: Why would somebody in the cockpit shut off the transponder?
-
Malaysian airplane investigators look at suicide as possible motive
The co-pilot of a missing Malaysian jetliner spoke the last words heard from the cockpit, the airline's chief executive said, as investigators consider suicide by the captain or first officer as one possible explanation for the disappearance.
-
Technical glitches ground Air India Dreamliner in Kuala Lumpur
An Air India Dreamliner, flying non-stop from Sydney to Delhi, with 215 people on board, today landed in Kuala Lumpur under emergency conditions after its cockpit panels suffered a software malfunction.
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Man tries to enter cockpit on flight from Dubai
Police at Arlanda airport in Stockholm have detained a man who tried to enter the cockpit on a flight from Dubai to Stockholm.
