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US Pilot Who Tried To Shut Down Plane Engine Mid-Air Avoids Attempted Murder Charge
An off-duty US pilot who tried to shut down the engines of a commercial passenger plane in mid-flight has been indicted on 84 counts, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Off-Duty US Pilot Tried To Shut Down Plane's Engines Mid-Flight
An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who was sitting in a cockpit jump seat on a US commercial flight has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to shut down the plane's engines in flight.
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Plane Nosedives Into Hangar Roof In US, Pilot Was Practicing Take-Offs, Landings
Kate Kuykendall, a spokesperson for the Long Beach Airport, told KTLA that the incident did not disrupt any commercial flights.
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Mumbai Pilot Gets 13 Crores To Build 19-Seater Plane
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday sanctioned Rs 12.91 crore to a company set up by Mumbai-based commercial pilot Captain Amol Shivaji Yadav to be used for research in indigenous aircraft manufacturing.
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Murder-Suicides By Pilots Are Vexing Airlines As Deaths Mount
For decades, commercial airline travel has gotten progressively safer. But one cause of deaths has stubbornly persisted: pilots who intentionally crash in murder-suicides.
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Airline Flies Empty A380 To Nowhere So Pilots Don't Lose Licenses
Airlines are taking extreme measures to survive the pandemic, with Asiana Airlines Inc. flying the world's biggest commercial plane more than 20 times, going nowhere and carrying no passengers, just to keep trainee pilots certified.
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Pilot Spills Coffee, Forces Emergency Landing Of Plane With 326 People
A commercial flight with 326 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing when hot coffee was accidentally spilled over the cockpit control panel over the Atlantic ocean, according to a report on Thursday.
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Boeing Invites Pilots, Regulators To Discuss Future Of 737 MAX Jets
Boeing Co said it has invited more than 200 airline pilots, technical leaders and regulators for an information session on Wednesday as it looks to return the 737 MAX to commercial service.
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Emiliano Sala's Plane Did Not Have Commercial Licence: Investigators
Pilot David Ibbotson was flying Sala to his new Premier League club Cardiff City from his previous side in Nantes in France on January 21.
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Air India Pilots Write To PM Modi, Offer Help In Flood-Hit Kerala
The Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing its willingness to fly planes to Kerala on a "voluntary basis" in the larger interest of the affected people in the state.
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Maharashtra Pilot Gets 35,000 Crore-Deal For India's First Plane Factory
The dream of a commercial pilot to set up an aircraft manufacturing company is set to take wings with the Maharashtra government today signing a Rs 35,000 crore pact with him to build aircraft.
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Air India To Phase Out Remaining Airbus Classic A320 Aircraft
In order to facilitate replacement of its old fleet, the national carrier has already commenced induction of A320 Neo (new engine option) planes, 14 of which are being procured on lease this year.
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Pilot In Footballers' Crash In Colombia 'Was Not Trained Properly'
The pilot in the plane crash that killed 71 people traveling to Colombia on a Bolivian charter including footballers from Brazil had not flown enough hours to pilot commercial flights, a copilot's attorney said Saturday.
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In a First, Plane Controlled by Pilots on the Ground Takes Flight in UK
A pilotless plane has flown alongside a commercial aircraft in the UK as part of a trial of drone technology in the British civil airspace.
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Japan Lifts Pilot Age Limit to 67 Amid Asian Shortage
Japan today raised the age limit for being in charge of a commercial plane to 67, the latest effort in Asia for an industry struggling to get to grips with a drastic shortage of pilots.
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US Pilot Who Tried To Shut Down Plane Engine Mid-Air Avoids Attempted Murder Charge
An off-duty US pilot who tried to shut down the engines of a commercial passenger plane in mid-flight has been indicted on 84 counts, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Off-Duty US Pilot Tried To Shut Down Plane's Engines Mid-Flight
An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who was sitting in a cockpit jump seat on a US commercial flight has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to shut down the plane's engines in flight.
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Plane Nosedives Into Hangar Roof In US, Pilot Was Practicing Take-Offs, Landings
Kate Kuykendall, a spokesperson for the Long Beach Airport, told KTLA that the incident did not disrupt any commercial flights.
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Mumbai Pilot Gets 13 Crores To Build 19-Seater Plane
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday sanctioned Rs 12.91 crore to a company set up by Mumbai-based commercial pilot Captain Amol Shivaji Yadav to be used for research in indigenous aircraft manufacturing.
-
Murder-Suicides By Pilots Are Vexing Airlines As Deaths Mount
For decades, commercial airline travel has gotten progressively safer. But one cause of deaths has stubbornly persisted: pilots who intentionally crash in murder-suicides.
-
Airline Flies Empty A380 To Nowhere So Pilots Don't Lose Licenses
Airlines are taking extreme measures to survive the pandemic, with Asiana Airlines Inc. flying the world's biggest commercial plane more than 20 times, going nowhere and carrying no passengers, just to keep trainee pilots certified.
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Pilot Spills Coffee, Forces Emergency Landing Of Plane With 326 People
A commercial flight with 326 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing when hot coffee was accidentally spilled over the cockpit control panel over the Atlantic ocean, according to a report on Thursday.
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Boeing Invites Pilots, Regulators To Discuss Future Of 737 MAX Jets
Boeing Co said it has invited more than 200 airline pilots, technical leaders and regulators for an information session on Wednesday as it looks to return the 737 MAX to commercial service.
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Emiliano Sala's Plane Did Not Have Commercial Licence: Investigators
Pilot David Ibbotson was flying Sala to his new Premier League club Cardiff City from his previous side in Nantes in France on January 21.
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Air India Pilots Write To PM Modi, Offer Help In Flood-Hit Kerala
The Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing its willingness to fly planes to Kerala on a "voluntary basis" in the larger interest of the affected people in the state.
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Maharashtra Pilot Gets 35,000 Crore-Deal For India's First Plane Factory
The dream of a commercial pilot to set up an aircraft manufacturing company is set to take wings with the Maharashtra government today signing a Rs 35,000 crore pact with him to build aircraft.
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Air India To Phase Out Remaining Airbus Classic A320 Aircraft
In order to facilitate replacement of its old fleet, the national carrier has already commenced induction of A320 Neo (new engine option) planes, 14 of which are being procured on lease this year.
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Pilot In Footballers' Crash In Colombia 'Was Not Trained Properly'
The pilot in the plane crash that killed 71 people traveling to Colombia on a Bolivian charter including footballers from Brazil had not flown enough hours to pilot commercial flights, a copilot's attorney said Saturday.
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In a First, Plane Controlled by Pilots on the Ground Takes Flight in UK
A pilotless plane has flown alongside a commercial aircraft in the UK as part of a trial of drone technology in the British civil airspace.
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Japan Lifts Pilot Age Limit to 67 Amid Asian Shortage
Japan today raised the age limit for being in charge of a commercial plane to 67, the latest effort in Asia for an industry struggling to get to grips with a drastic shortage of pilots.
