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Airline News
United's first Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (N20904) takes off from Boeing Field enroute to Houston. (Photo by Dan King/NYCAviation)

United 787 Makes Emergency Landing In New Orleans After Electrical Scare

United said only that the plane experienced a mechanical issue.
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Manufacturer News
Airbus A350 XWB MSN-001. (Photo by P. Masclet/Airbus)

Video: First Airbus A350 Rolls Out Of Assembly Hangar

Airbus's first flyable A350 XWB test aircraft has rolled out of the main assembly building in Toulouse and into a testing hangar.
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Military News
Kim Jong-un watches something in the sky. (Photo by Korean Central News Agency)

North Korea Ready To Try Another Rocket Launch Carrying ‘Satellite’

North Korea will this month attempt for a second time to launch a long-range rocket carrying a satellite, the government announced Saturday.
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Crashes
The plane went down about 1 km southwest of Maya Maya Airport. (Map by NYCAviation/Google Maps)

Cargo Plane Crashes In Congo Capital, Killing 32

At least 32 people were killed Friday when a cargo plane crashed into a residential area while attempting to land in Brazzaville.
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Military News
This is Syria's only operational Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft (YK-ATA), seen here at Paris-Le Bourget Airport in 2009. It may have been used to transport Mil Mi-25 attack helicopters to Syria from Russia through Iraqi airspace. (Photo by twin-otter64 via Flickr, CC-BY-NC-SA)

Did Syria Transport Russian Attack Helicopters Through Iraqi Airspace?

In late October, Syria asked Iraqi authorities to grant air access for a cargo plane transporting refurbed attack helicopters from Russia.
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