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American Airlines Jet Suffers Nose Gear Damage In LGA Bird Strike

An American Airlines 737-800 on approach to LGA hit a bird Tuesday, damaging the landing gear but causing no injuries.
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VIDEO: ContactAir F100 Belly Landing at Stuttgart

ContactAir Flight 288, a Fokker-100 flying from Berlin-Tegel to Stuttgart, landed on its belly after its main gear would not fully deploy on landing.
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Dramatic Control Tower Audio: Flight Carrying Times Square Bomber Ordered Back to Gate Moments Before Takeoff

In a turn of events worthy of a Hollywood action film, the flight aboard which suspected Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was attempting to escape to the Middle East was just seconds from taking off before being hurriedly ord...
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Miracle On the Hudson: US Airways A320 Ditches In River, All 155 On Board Safe

A US Airways flight lost power in both engines shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport this afternoon, forcing the pilots to guide the Airbus A320 to an amazingly smooth stop on the Hudson River near 50th Street. Nearby co...
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Unusual Cracks Found on Two American Airlines 767s

Engineers from Boeing, American Airlines and the FAA are closely examining structural cracks recently found on the engine pylons of three 767 airliners.
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