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Reagan National Airport control tower. (Photo by dbking via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY)

FAA To Close 149 Contracted Control Towers April 7th

The FAA announced Friday the first round of contracted air traffic control towers to be closed due to sequestration, starting April 7th. Among the towers being closed is Trenton Mercer, which is just outside of Philadelphia and...
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The number 2 engine of VH-OQA, which sustained an uncontained failure

Australian Transport Safety Bureau Releases Final Qantas Flight 32 Report

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau on Thursday released their final report into the Qantas A380 uncontained engine failure over Indonesia on November 4, 2010. The 305 page report gives a full account of the major incident, ...
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Captain: A Double-Edged Sword

By the simple act of firing one of their own for keeping passengers alive, they have brought the wrath of an entire industry into an incident which wouldn't normally get a second look.
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Lufthansa's first Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (D-ABYA) takes off on a test flight. (Photo by Boeing)

Boeing Delivers First 747-8 Intercontinental to Lufthansa

Lufthansa on Wednesday became the first airline to take the delivery of Boeing's new 747-8 Intercontinental, a critical milestone for the largest passenger plane ever built by the airframer.
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A Cimber Sterling Boeing 737-700 (OY-MRS) seen taking off from Alicante, Spain. (Photo by PatxikuD5000, published under a CC BY-NC-ND license.)

Danish Airline Cimber Sterling Grounds All Flights, Files For Bankruptcy

Cimber Sterling grounded all flights effective immediately after filing for bankruptcy Thursday morning.
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