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• One dead in Los Angeles-area plane crash

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  SAN GABRIEL, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) — One person died on Saturday afternoon when a small plane crashed on a road in Los Angeles County, California.The crash happened at 4.17 p.m. local time in the city of San Gabriel, about 10 miles from Los Angeles.Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration ...
  15 hours ago

• Three die in helicopter crash near Doyle, California

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  DOYLE, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) — A medical helicopter crashed near the California-Nevada border on Saturday morning, killing three people on board, federal officials said.The crash happened around 2 a.m. local time about 11 miles south of Doyle, an unincorporated community in California’s Lassen County. It is ...
  15 hours ago

• Drunk pilot arrested in London

  
  Gadling — Authority: 691
  Filed under: Europe , North America , United Kingdom , United States After (another) pilot was found drunk in London this week, the issue of pilot inebriation has become a frequent discussion topic . Since 1997, 11 commercial pilots, on average, have tested positive for alcohol every year. According to ...
  2 days ago

• walking dead

  
  Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog — Authority: 129
  According to the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership and Transportation for America, the most dangerous metropolitan areas in the U.S. for walking in 2007-2008 were: Orlando, Tampa, Miami,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• Books of The Times: A Cool Pilot, but the Plane Was Cooler

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  William Langewiesche
  4 days ago

• OSAMA ON A DARE?

  
  The Electric Egg Cream — Authority: 126
  Almost two month to the day of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 , American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Rockaway (Queens), New York on November 12, 2001. Bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic , the plane had taken off at 9:14 a.m. from JFK Airport and was carrying 260 people. Immediately after takeoff ...
  5 days ago

• What Every Bus Commuter Should Know

  
  Living Las Vegas — Authority: 428
  Public transportation is great in Las Vegas and thus attracts all kinds of characters including those that are potentially dangerous. Here’s five things every commuter should know. [ Read more ]
  1 week ago

• Identity Resolution Daily Links 2009-10-30

  
  Identity Resolution Daily — Authority: 119
  [Post from Infoglide ] Enriching E-discovery Results with Identity Resolution “Civil lawsuits often result in discovery orders from the court to produce every shred of possibly relevant internal communication. The need to comprehend patterns across the resulting vast amount of aggregated data is critical. To ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aviation regulators bar two Northwest pilots from flying

  
  The Latest Travel News and Information — Authority: 141
  US aviation regulators on Tuesday revoked the commercial flying licenses of two Northwest Airlines (NWA) pilots who flew over Minneapolis airport and missed their landing by 150 miles. Pilots of the Minneapolis-bound Flight 188 on 21 October, en route from San Diego, lost contact with air traffic controllers for over ...
  2 weeks ago

• Plane flies 150 miles past its destination when pilots used their laptops in flight

  
  Geek With Laptop — Authority: 572
  Two pilots from Northwest Airlines on Flight 188 from San Diego to Minneapolis apparently got so engrossed in their laptops that they overshot their destination runway by 150 miles. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report, Captain Timothy Cheney 53, and First Officer Richard Cole 54, only ...
  2 weeks ago

• US pilots lose licence after being lost on flight

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Oct 28 (DPA) Two airline pilots have had their licences withdrawn after they overflew their destination and were lost for more than an hour while they were toying with their personal laptops, US federal aviation officials announced in Washington late Tuesday.The pilots’ behaviour had been negligent and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Northwest Pilots’ Laptop Use Could Spark Personal Electronics Ban in Cockpits

  
  Technology News and Happenings - Techpresso.org — Authority: 452
  The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their destination by 150 miles have told investigators that they were distracted because they were using their personal laptops. First Officer Richard Cole was allegedly helping Captain Timothy Cheney understand a new crew scheduling program while they lost track of time, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Irony: NWA pilots land late because of scheduling discussion

  
  Gadling — Authority: 691
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines The investigation into the overshooting Northwest Airlines flight continues. The National Transportation Safety Board has found that the pilots were distracted by conversations and the use of personal laptops when flying 150 miles past Minneapolis. One of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Case of the Absent-Minded Pilots

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 139
  I was in  Minneapolis the last few days and the talk of the town there all seemed to be about this Delta Airlines flight last week from San Diego to Minneapolis, where the pilots missed their destination, veered into Wisconsin, and then belatedly circled back to Minneapolis. The uproar over the pilot’s  ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Happened on Northwest Flight 188?

  
  Flight Wisdom — Authority: 125
  The Twin Cities Pioneer Press reports that the two pilots who overflew Minneapolis last week have advised the NTSB that the reason they lost track of time they were "discussing the new monthly crew flight scheduling system." The system was put in place as part of Northwests merger with Delta Air Lines. They both ...
  2 weeks ago

• Officials Query Pilots Who Missed Airport

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Investigators questioned the pilots of the Northwest plane but gave no public comments on what the pilots had said.
  2 weeks ago

• A Northwest plane overshot a runway by 100 miles

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 440
  The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into exactly why a Northwest Airlines airplane that was headed to Minneapolis would have overshot the airport by more than 100 miles this week. Northwest Flight 188 was on its way to Minneapolis from San Diego when it lost radio contact with air traffic controllers. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Puzzling Over the Flight Too Far

  
  The Lede — Authority: 717
  How could a Northwest jetliner have cruised right past its destination city on Wednesday without either of its pilots noticing? Investigators are trying to piece together the story.
  3 weeks ago

• Flight Error on Northwest Is the Focus of an Inquiry

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Pilots, en route from San Diego to Minneapolis, did not respond to communications from controllers, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
  3 weeks ago

• National Briefing | Washington: Plane Lands on Taxiway

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate the landing on Monday of a Delta Air Lines flight on a taxiway at the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport.
  3 weeks ago

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