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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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Pilots' Body Call Out IndiGo's "Prolonged, Unorthodox Lean Manpower Strategy"
Pilots' body Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has alleged that IndiGo, despite getting a two-year preparatory window before the full implementation of new flight duty and rest period norms for cockpit crew, "inexplicably" adopted a "hiring freeze."
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Austrian Airlines Plane Suffers Major Damage To Nose, Cockpit Windows Due To Hailstorm
The airline reported the aircraft encountered a severe thunderstorm cell, resulting in damage to the cockpit windows, exterior coverings, and notably, the nose cone.
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Hailstorm Damages Nose, Cockpit Windows Of Austrian Airline Plane
A hailstorm badly damaged a passenger plane approaching Vienna on Sunday, the airline said, as Austria grappled with violent thunderstorms and widespread flooding.
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Cockpit Window Crack Found In ANA Boeing 737-800 Midair, Plane Lands Safely In Japan
A domestic flight of Japan's All Nippon Airways returned to its departure airport on Saturday after a crack was found on the cockpit window of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft midair, a spokesperson for the airline said.
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Watch: Airline Captain Hangs From Window To Retrieve Passenger's Lost Phone
A pilot is seen reaching out of the cockpit window in the brief video clip shared by the Dallas-based airline to take a phone from a ramp worker.
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Suspected COVID-19 Passengers On Board, Pilot Exits AirAsia Cockpit Window
As there were suspected coronavirus-infected passengers aboard AirAsia India's Pune-Delhi flight last Friday, the pilot-in-command after landing chose to come out of the plane through cockpit's secondary exit, which is a sliding window.
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Cockpit Window Shatters Midair, Passenger Jet Makes Emergency Landing
An Icelandair flight made an emergency landing in Canada after a cockpit window shattered during flight, a passenger said on Twitter.
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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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Co-Pilot Sucked Halfway Out Of Plane After Windshield Cracks Over China
Getting sucked halfway out of a plane window is the stuff of movies and nightmares and it happens extremely rarely.
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Sichuan Airlines Pilot Was "Sucked Halfway" Out Of Window, Captain Says
The co-pilot of a Sichuan Airlines flight that was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday was "sucked halfway" out of the plane after a cockpit windshield blew out, local media reported citing the aircraft's captain.
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Air India Frankfurt-Delhi Plane Lands In Iran After Cockpit Window Cracks
A crack in the main cockpit window forced an Air India plane from Frankfurt to Delhi to land mid-way in Tehran this morning.
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EgyptAir Plane Hijacker Arrested, Hostages Safe: 10 Developments
The hijacker who seized an EgyptAir flight and forced it to land in Cyprus has been arrested, government spokesperson Nicos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. A man was seen climbing out of the cockpit window as it was reported that all passengers were safely off the plane.
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US Sees Big Surge in Close Calls With Drones
It was a fine summer day over the airport at Charlotte, North Carolina and a CRJ200 commuter jet was preparing to land when its pilots spotted something odd outside their cockpit window -- a drone.
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Japan Airlines Dreamliner hit by another battery problem
Japan Airlines has grounded another one of its Dreamliner jets after "white smoke" was seen outside the cockpit window during maintenance, a year after the aircraft suffered a months-long global grounding over battery problems.
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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.
-
Pilots' Body Call Out IndiGo's "Prolonged, Unorthodox Lean Manpower Strategy"
Pilots' body Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has alleged that IndiGo, despite getting a two-year preparatory window before the full implementation of new flight duty and rest period norms for cockpit crew, "inexplicably" adopted a "hiring freeze."
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Austrian Airlines Plane Suffers Major Damage To Nose, Cockpit Windows Due To Hailstorm
The airline reported the aircraft encountered a severe thunderstorm cell, resulting in damage to the cockpit windows, exterior coverings, and notably, the nose cone.
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Hailstorm Damages Nose, Cockpit Windows Of Austrian Airline Plane
A hailstorm badly damaged a passenger plane approaching Vienna on Sunday, the airline said, as Austria grappled with violent thunderstorms and widespread flooding.
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Cockpit Window Crack Found In ANA Boeing 737-800 Midair, Plane Lands Safely In Japan
A domestic flight of Japan's All Nippon Airways returned to its departure airport on Saturday after a crack was found on the cockpit window of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft midair, a spokesperson for the airline said.
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Watch: Airline Captain Hangs From Window To Retrieve Passenger's Lost Phone
A pilot is seen reaching out of the cockpit window in the brief video clip shared by the Dallas-based airline to take a phone from a ramp worker.
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Suspected COVID-19 Passengers On Board, Pilot Exits AirAsia Cockpit Window
As there were suspected coronavirus-infected passengers aboard AirAsia India's Pune-Delhi flight last Friday, the pilot-in-command after landing chose to come out of the plane through cockpit's secondary exit, which is a sliding window.
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Cockpit Window Shatters Midair, Passenger Jet Makes Emergency Landing
An Icelandair flight made an emergency landing in Canada after a cockpit window shattered during flight, a passenger said on Twitter.
-
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.
-
Co-Pilot Sucked Halfway Out Of Plane After Windshield Cracks Over China
Getting sucked halfway out of a plane window is the stuff of movies and nightmares and it happens extremely rarely.
-
Sichuan Airlines Pilot Was "Sucked Halfway" Out Of Window, Captain Says
The co-pilot of a Sichuan Airlines flight that was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday was "sucked halfway" out of the plane after a cockpit windshield blew out, local media reported citing the aircraft's captain.
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Air India Frankfurt-Delhi Plane Lands In Iran After Cockpit Window Cracks
A crack in the main cockpit window forced an Air India plane from Frankfurt to Delhi to land mid-way in Tehran this morning.
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EgyptAir Plane Hijacker Arrested, Hostages Safe: 10 Developments
The hijacker who seized an EgyptAir flight and forced it to land in Cyprus has been arrested, government spokesperson Nicos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. A man was seen climbing out of the cockpit window as it was reported that all passengers were safely off the plane.
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US Sees Big Surge in Close Calls With Drones
It was a fine summer day over the airport at Charlotte, North Carolina and a CRJ200 commuter jet was preparing to land when its pilots spotted something odd outside their cockpit window -- a drone.
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Japan Airlines Dreamliner hit by another battery problem
Japan Airlines has grounded another one of its Dreamliner jets after "white smoke" was seen outside the cockpit window during maintenance, a year after the aircraft suffered a months-long global grounding over battery problems.
