Jet makes emergency landing after smoke report

An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing after smoke was found in the cabin. Firefighters arrived at the site but no fire was detected."LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Passengers have been evacuated by inflatable chutes from an American Airlines jetliner after an...

AA Makes Emergency Landing at LAX

Another AA Emergency Landing.  One of NowPublic's Members lgal3824 works across the street from LAW and stated, "I work across the street from LAX and heard numerous sirens an hour ago. Another American...

Qantas suffers third emergency landing in a week

In baseball three strikes has dire consequences, but whether the same holds true for airlines is still up in the air--or not, actually, judging by all the grounded planes. Australia's national airline has initiated its third emergency landing in a week, raising serious...

Qantas faces special safety probe

Perturbed with a spate if incidents involving Qantas airplane, Australian government ordered today a special review of the  entire fleet of Qantas.  Hopefully this will double check any problem and...

WWII plane makes belly landing at Airfield in Va. Beach

" According to Va. State Police, the plane’s landing gear was stuck and the pilot set the YAK down at the end of the east/west runway. No one on the plane was hurt, but crews are on the scene cleaning up...

Women face jail after drunken rampage on jumbo at 30,000ft

An XL Airways Boeing 737  flight from the Greek island of Kos to Manchester with 214 passengers and seven crew on board made an emergency landing after one of its passenger tried to open the cabin door at...

10,000 FEET BLAST of QANTAS BOEING 747-400 JET

MANILA, PHILIPPINES EMERGENCY landing caused by the blast from 10,000 feet of QANTAS BOEING 747-400 jet side..The said flight was going to airport of MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA. ----------  The passengers of the Qantas flight that was diverted to Manila due to a...

Garuda death-flight pilot 'deliberately crashed plane'

Marwoto Komar was the  pilot of a plane that crashed in the city of Yogyakarta last year, killing 21 people , including five Australians. " PROSECUTORS will argue today that Garuda pilot Marwoto Komar deliberately crashed the Boeing 737-400 that ended up in a fireball...

NASA used cadavers in tests to develop landing systems

"NASA used cadavers in Orion landing tests By MARK CARREAU Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Recommend Comments (44) Yahoo! Buzz ...

Planes ‘fly empty’ to keep slots at Heathrow

The airlines tell us that they are concerned about the environment but they have to offer a service to their customers. Here we see bmi flying planes without passengers - very green." Britain’s third-largest...

Vancouver Power Outage Walloping Some Domain Owners

Bad news for frequent visitors of personalloans.com and others looking for debt consolidation services."A power outage in Vancouver is taking a huge hit on some in the domain industry today. Domain Name News...

Canadian Jihad: Trained for terror

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAs the trial is underway, the crown hears of emails and banter among Jihadists which sound more like a couple of guys planning a Funfilled Babes and Beer College Spring...

Gaps In McCain's Military Record Raise Questions

""At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined...

Village threatened by warming gets funding

Certainly distressing when an entire town must be evacuated before it is swallowed up forever.  It is also reported that the State of Iowa is under 2/3 of water.  Where do you relocate a state?...

Space Shuttle Discovery Lands at Kennedy Space Center

UPDATE:Space Shuttle Discovery and her crew are safely back on earth following a beautiful landing in Florida.Hitching a ride home: astronaut Garrett E. Reisman, who flew to the International Space Station...

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