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Australian Air Traffic Controller Found Sleeping On Duty After 10 Night Shifts In 12 Days
Australia's air safety investigators have recommended reforms after a Brisbane air traffic controller was found asleep at his desk while covering an early-morning shift.
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Pilot Flies Plane Unconscious For 40 Minutes During Training In Australia
A trainee pilot flew unconscious for about 40 minutes through controlled airspace above Adelaide airport in Australia after he skipped breakfast on the morning of the flight.
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Australia Investigators Defend MH370 Out-Of-Control Scenario
Australian investigators Tuesday defended their findings that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was out of control when it plunged into the ocean, despite renewed theories that a rogue pilot ditched the plane.
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Clipboard Sucked Into Plane Engine, No One Told The Pilot Before Take-Off
A clipboard left behind during pre-flight checks was sucked into the jet engine of an international passenger plane, Australian safety regulators said Tuesday.
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Crashed Australia Seaplane Recovered As Deadly History Revealed
A seaplane that crashed into an Australian river, killing five British tourists and the pilot, was recovered Thursday as reports emerged of the aircraft's involvement in another deadly accident two decades ago.
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Report On MH370 Finds 'Initially Similar' Route On Pilot's Flight Simulator
The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was "initially similar" to the one actually taken, Australian authorities said on Tuesday.
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Woman Suffers Burns to Face, Hands When Her Headphones Explode Mid-Flight
There have been several incidents involving lithium batteries in recent years, including the now infamous Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
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'Massive Fireball' As Small Aircraft Crashes Into Shops Near Melbourne, 5 Dead
A light aircraft exploded Tuesday in a "massive fireball" with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as it smashed into a shopping centre near the Australian city of Melbourne.
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Final Sweep For MH370 Sea Search
The last vessel searching for missing MH370 has left on its final sweep across the southern Indian Ocean, Australia said Wednesday, as the transport minister cautioned the airliner might not be found in coming weeks.
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MH370 Report Says Plane In 'Increasing Rate Of Descent' When It Vanished
A new report into missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 says that additional analysis of satellite communications from the aircraft was consistent with it being in a "high and increasing rate of descent" when it vanished.
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MH370 'Debris' Handed To Australian Agency
An American amateur investigator handed possible debris from missing flight MH370 to Australian officials on Monday and said several pieces were blackened by flames, raising the prospect of a flash fire onboard.
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Tanzania Debris To Be Checked For MH370 Link: Australia
A piece of aircraft debris found off the coast of Tanzania will be examined to see whether it could be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian officials said Friday.
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Australia Says Stepping Up Hunt for MH370, Confident of Search Area
Australia will step up search efforts in an area they believe holds the best hope of finding a missing Malaysia Airlines jet, whose disappearance last year sparked one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history, officials said on Thursday.
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Confirmed MH370 Wing Part Won't Change Search: Australia
Confirmation that a plane part that washed up on a remote island was from missing jet MH370 was useful but would not alter the search for the plane, Australian investigators said today.
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Debris Find a 'Real Boost' to Australian MH370 Searchers
The discovery of a Boeing 777 wing part on a remote Indian Ocean island was a "real boost" to experts scouring treacherous seas for missing plane MH370, Australia's search chief said today.
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Australian Air Traffic Controller Found Sleeping On Duty After 10 Night Shifts In 12 Days
Australia's air safety investigators have recommended reforms after a Brisbane air traffic controller was found asleep at his desk while covering an early-morning shift.
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Pilot Flies Plane Unconscious For 40 Minutes During Training In Australia
A trainee pilot flew unconscious for about 40 minutes through controlled airspace above Adelaide airport in Australia after he skipped breakfast on the morning of the flight.
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Australia Investigators Defend MH370 Out-Of-Control Scenario
Australian investigators Tuesday defended their findings that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was out of control when it plunged into the ocean, despite renewed theories that a rogue pilot ditched the plane.
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Clipboard Sucked Into Plane Engine, No One Told The Pilot Before Take-Off
A clipboard left behind during pre-flight checks was sucked into the jet engine of an international passenger plane, Australian safety regulators said Tuesday.
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Crashed Australia Seaplane Recovered As Deadly History Revealed
A seaplane that crashed into an Australian river, killing five British tourists and the pilot, was recovered Thursday as reports emerged of the aircraft's involvement in another deadly accident two decades ago.
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Report On MH370 Finds 'Initially Similar' Route On Pilot's Flight Simulator
The captain of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that vanished somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean with 239 people on board had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was "initially similar" to the one actually taken, Australian authorities said on Tuesday.
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Woman Suffers Burns to Face, Hands When Her Headphones Explode Mid-Flight
There have been several incidents involving lithium batteries in recent years, including the now infamous Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
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'Massive Fireball' As Small Aircraft Crashes Into Shops Near Melbourne, 5 Dead
A light aircraft exploded Tuesday in a "massive fireball" with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as it smashed into a shopping centre near the Australian city of Melbourne.
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Final Sweep For MH370 Sea Search
The last vessel searching for missing MH370 has left on its final sweep across the southern Indian Ocean, Australia said Wednesday, as the transport minister cautioned the airliner might not be found in coming weeks.
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MH370 Report Says Plane In 'Increasing Rate Of Descent' When It Vanished
A new report into missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 says that additional analysis of satellite communications from the aircraft was consistent with it being in a "high and increasing rate of descent" when it vanished.
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MH370 'Debris' Handed To Australian Agency
An American amateur investigator handed possible debris from missing flight MH370 to Australian officials on Monday and said several pieces were blackened by flames, raising the prospect of a flash fire onboard.
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Tanzania Debris To Be Checked For MH370 Link: Australia
A piece of aircraft debris found off the coast of Tanzania will be examined to see whether it could be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian officials said Friday.
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Australia Says Stepping Up Hunt for MH370, Confident of Search Area
Australia will step up search efforts in an area they believe holds the best hope of finding a missing Malaysia Airlines jet, whose disappearance last year sparked one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history, officials said on Thursday.
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Confirmed MH370 Wing Part Won't Change Search: Australia
Confirmation that a plane part that washed up on a remote island was from missing jet MH370 was useful but would not alter the search for the plane, Australian investigators said today.
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Debris Find a 'Real Boost' to Australian MH370 Searchers
The discovery of a Boeing 777 wing part on a remote Indian Ocean island was a "real boost" to experts scouring treacherous seas for missing plane MH370, Australia's search chief said today.
