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+24 +7Indonesia 737 crash caused by “safety” feature change pilots weren’t told of
737 Max safety bulletin revealed changes to system that pilots never knew about.
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+16 +3Napping American Airlines baggage handler trapped in cargo hold on flight to Chicago
An admittedly intoxicated American Airlines baggage handler fell asleep on the job and ended up flying from Kansas City to Chicago in the belly of a Boeing 737. The employee, who works for American subsidiary Piedmont Airlines at Kansas City International Airport, was working on the ramp for American Flight 363 on Saturday Oct. 27, when he apparently took a nap inside the cargo hold before the flight.
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+18 +2Airline vows to switch to electric planes on short-haul routes by 2030
A UK-based budget airline announced this week that it is “moving fast” toward developing a fleet of electric planes.
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+19 +2Top battery scientists have a plan to electrify flight and slash airline emissions
Could a new battery designed for the demands of aviation solve one of the hardest problems in the climate puzzle?
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+27 +4For $150,000 you can now order your own Hoverbike
This crazy looking motorcycle-styled hoverbike appeared in early 2017 and we were skeptical the contraption would ever move beyond just an odd engineering curiosity. However, Hoversurf has revealed its hoverbikes are now ready for production and preorders are open, with delivery scheduled for 2019.
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+16 +3BlackFly ‘flying car’ to hit the market in 2019 for the price of an SUV
Hey, it's the future. We're supposed to have flying cars, right? Well, here's your flying car, sort of and again. It's slated to go on sale in 2019. It's called the BlackFly and the company manufacturing it, Opener, is backed at least partially by Alphabet's Larry Page, who's been rumored to have been tinkering with such craft for a while, working with a few partners. Alan Eustace, who's been on Big Think, is an Opener technical advisor.
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+16 +3Boeing 737 flies into brick wall — and just keeps going
An Air India pilot flew a Boeing 737 through a brick wall Friday. Incredibly, that marked the beginning of its journey and not the end. The jet not only clobbered the top of a five-foot perimeter wall but also destroyed a small landing guide tower as it climbed out of Tiruchirappalli International Airport in Tamil Nadu, India, shortly after midnight, the Times of India reported.
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+17 +4This Hilarious Optical Illusion for Birds Could Save Your Life
Birds and planes are a bad combination, but it’s not so easy to shoo our avian friends away from airport runways. Thankfully, scientists from France have stumbled upon an ingenious solution to the problem—an optical illusion that appears to scare the crap out of large predatory birds.
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+11 +2US military grounds all F-35 jets
The US military has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets in the wake of a crash in South Carolina last month. Inspections are to be carried out on faulty fuel tubes. An official report questioned earlier this year whether the F-35 was ready for combat after dozens of faults were found. The F-35 is the largest and most expensive weapons programme of its type in the world.
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+36 +5Will Drones and Planes be Treated as Equals by FAA?
Soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, the rules for flying remote-controlled aircraft in the United States will be very different.
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+31 +7House passes bill to require minimum standards for airplane seat size, legroom
The House passed a bill that would require minimum airplane seat sizes and configurations. The clause was part of a five-year extension of the Federal Aviation Administration.
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+11 +5America’s Most Expensive Fighter Jet Totaled in First-Ever Crash
The F-35, the U.S. military’s most expensive fighter jet, crashed for the first time on Friday, just hours after a U.S.-flown F-35 carried out its first-ever combat strike in Afghanistan.
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+14 +3Tonight a Virgin Atlantic 747 will fly on fuel made from industrial waste gas
A little after 7pm ET tonight, a Virgin Atlantic 747 will take off from Orlando, Florida, bound for London's Gatwick airport. This flight will be the first to use a blend of jet fuel and fuel made from industrial waste gas from a steel mill in China. This waste-gas fuel will displace some of the petroleum-based jet fuel that usually fills up a commercial jet's tanks.
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+4 +1Plane overshoots a runway in Micronesia and crash lands in the ocean
A passenger on board the plane which crash-landed near Papua New Guinea today has praised the 'awesome' response of the locals who jumped into their boats and pulled people from the jet as it sank into the ocean. Authorities confirmed the airliner - which was en route to Papua New Guinea from Micronesia - missed the runway and crashed into the water off the tiny island of Weno, north-west of Papua New Guinea, around 9.30am Friday local time.
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+11 +1In 10 Years, Windowless Planes Will Give Passengers A Panoramic View Of The Sky
Tired of fighting for the window seat every time you travel by plane? Well then when you read about and see the latest idea for plane travel you may wonder–what took so long?! A British Technology research firm known as The Center for Process Innovation says they are creating the key to future airplane travel: windowless planes.
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+7 +3Why pilots never eat the same plane food as passengers
Plane food is a divisive topic, with passengers either loving it or hating it, and mostly the latter.
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+13 +3Passengers hurt after India pilot 'blunder'
More than 30 Indian passengers, some bleeding from their noses and ears, have received treatment after pilots "forgot" to turn on a switch regulating cabin pressure, officials said. Jet Airways flight 9W 697 from Mumbai to Jaipur turned back shortly after take off. Videos tweeted by passengers aboard the plane showed oxygen masks deployed inside the aircraft. The Boeing 737, which was carrying 166 passengers, landed safely.
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+12 +1Swedish student whose flight disruption went viral now faces charges
The Swedish student who livestreamed her onboard protest against the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker over the summer is being charged with violating Sweden’s Aviation Act, broadcaster SVT reported on Friday. Student activist Elin Ersson protested against the Swedish government’s policy of deporting some rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan by boarding an Istanbul-bound flight that carried an Afghan man who was to be returned home after being denied asylum.
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+24 +8Man claims he’s found missing flight MH370 on Google Maps
A man has sensationally claimed to have found the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Google Maps. Ian Wilson believes a blurry outline of an aircraft spotted in the Cambodian jungle is in fact the same plane that went missing four and a half years ago. The missing MH370 is one of the biggest aviation mysteries and has dumbfounded investigators ever since it vanished.
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+10 +2Plane in quarantine at JFK airport after '10 passengers fall ill'
An Emirates plane has been quarantined at JFK airport in New York after multiple passengers reported feeling ill, the airline has said. Local news outlets originally reported that up to 100 of the passengers on the flight from Dubai to New York were suffering from coughs and fevers. But the airline said in a statement that only 10 passengers had fallen ill, and “were immediately checked by local health authorities". The other passengers were expected to disembark shortly.
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