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An engine on a Long Island-bound Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas burst into flames shortly after take off Thursday, but the pilot was able to make a successful landing back at the Las Vegas airport, an Southwest spokeswoman said.
Whitney Eichinger, a Southwest Airlines spokeswoman, said the plane with 121 on board -- 116 passengers and 5 crew members -- was a Boeing 737 scheduled to fly nonstop from McCarran International Airport to Long Island MacArthur Airport.
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| //20-01-2009 |
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S Airways has sent $5,000 checks to each of the 150 passengers on Flight 1549 to compensate them for lost luggage and other belongings.
That was the flight that crash-landed in the Hudson River last week after losing power simultaneously in both engines shortly after takeoff. All 155 people aboard survived.
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| //14-01-2009 |
KODIAK, Alaska -- An Alaska Airlines jet has been grounded to check for damage after its pilots maxed out the engines to get it stopped on an extremely icy runway.
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| //10-01-2009 |
DALLAS — Southwest Airlines says it put a pilot on leave after he allegedly showed up at the airport with alcohol on his breath.
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| //08-01-2009 |
The captain of a Continental Airlines jet that skidded off a Denver runway and burst into flames last month attempted to steer the jet using a method linked to runway accidents in the past, federal accident investigators reported Wednesday.
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| //01-01-2009 |
There were 124 passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 59 when it left the Netherlands. There were 125 when it landed in Boston. Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for Logan International Airport, says a woman went into labor and gave birth to an apparently healthy baby girl over the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday during the eight-hour flight from Amsterdam.
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| //27-12-2008 |
DENVER (Map, News) - Two people injured when a Continental Airlines jetliner veered off a runway in Denver, including the plane's pilot, have been released from the hospital.
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| //26-12-2008 |
A Southwest Airlines plane slid off a snow-covered taxiway Friday at Chicago Midway International Airport in Illinois, but no one was hurt, aviation officials said.
A Federal Aviation Administration official said 98 people were aboard Flight 688, departing for Los Angeles, California.
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| //17-12-2008 |
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| //29-11-2008 |
SYDNEY (AFP) — The captain of a Qantas Airbus A330 carrying 168 passengers to Singapore had to shut down an engine and turn back to Perth after an oil warning light flashed, according to the airline.
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| //10-11-2008 |
THE Federal Government has stepped up warnings to Australians about travel to Indonesia by highlighting the possibility of a terrorist attack encouraged by the executions.
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| //09-10-2008 |
Published Date: 09 October 2008
A SMALL private plane crashed in the remote mountains of north-east Nepal yesterday, killing 18 people, mostly foreigners, airline and airport officials said.
Twelve Germans and two Australians were among the dead. The rest were Nepalis.
"There were 19 people on board," said Vinay Shakya, an official of Yeti Airlines, a domestic airline. One crew member survived.
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| //09-10-2008 |
A MAN has been arrested for allegedly tying up a female passenger on a flight in the US.
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| //01-10-2008 |
Federal authorities in Houston have accused a former Southwest Airlines baggage handler of using his free employee flying privileges to allegedly smuggle cocaine from Houston to Baltimore and haul mounds of cash back.
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| //24-09-2008 |
A United Express flight had to brake and swerve at 140 mph to avoid by about 10 feet a small plane on the same Pennsylvania runway, airport and federal officials said Monday.
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| //23-09-2008 |
A Mesa Airlines Canadair CRJ-700, registration N506MJ performing flight YV7138 from Allentown,PA to Chicago O'Hare,IL (USA) with 60 people on board, rejected takeoff at about 120 knots at Allentown. The airplane came as close as 10 feet to collide with a Cessna 172 (registration N736GV) on the runway, the NTSB reported.
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| //15-09-2008 |
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| //13-09-2008 |
MOSCOW (AFP) ¡ª A Boeing-737 jet crashed near Russia's city of Perm in the central Ural mountains killing all 83 passengers and five crew on board, Russian news agencies reported Sunday quoting emergency ministry officials.
"According to the latest information, the airplane fell into a ravine near the city limits. There were 82 passengers plus a baby and five crew on board, and by preliminary information, they are all dead," investigator Vladimir Markin told the RIA Novosti news agency.
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| //11-09-2008 |
A man is suing American Airlines after it allegedly lost his wife's body for four days.
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