Even when planes explode in the air, all is not always lost.
America is now, belatedly, moving away from random screening, which led to absurdly rigorous treatment of obviously harmless categories like small children, veterans and even the planes' own pilots, to a computerised system that checks identities and assesses potential risk.
In a presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon security conference in July, for instance, French security researcher Andre Costin presented vulnerabilities in the next-generation air traffic control system known as ADS-B that he said would allow a hacker with a software-defined radio to track and even spoof planes in the sky, potentially creating dangerous distractions for pilots.
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The plane hasn't been flown yet, of course, and the military may never decide to buy these planes even if they do work.
Beneath them is a subway concourse, where tens of thousands more arrived to work in lower Manhattan, exiting trains even as the planes arrived.
Last year, the Internal Revenue Service ruled that an unnamed private S corporation could deduct the full cost of owning two fractional shares in jets, even though those planes were used just 5% of the time for business.
While her mother insisted that Jessica's age was not a factor in the crash, aviation experts question whether children should be allowed to fly planes, even under the close supervision of a flight instructor.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks there have been no incidents in which terrorists have successfully used sharp objects to take over a plane, which suggests the current policy of keeping even small knives off planes is working, committee members said.
The best place I could think of it being used is in airports and in planes, but even those now have Internet access.
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Of course, sommeliers are invited to play golf as well some I know have even been taken on private planes to Burgundy by their best customers. (No, I won't be naming names.) And both retailers and sommeliers have been known to accept importer- or distributor-sponsored trips to visit key producers, whose wines will presumably end up on wine lists and store shelves.
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According to airplane maker Boeing, even onboard explosions have not caused planes to crash.
Canada, several European and Asian countries, and even Iraq have also been sending planes to evacuate their nationals.
Planes can fly safely even if only one engine is operational, he said.
Planes, jeeps and even donkeys have been used to get millions of books and teaching materials to the schools that are still open.
It takes a lot of practice to fly model planes precisely, and even experts might have difficulty in hitting a vulnerable spot such as a window.
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For instance, InsideTrip awards different scores for the duration of a flight and the airline's on-time performance, its lost-luggage track record, even the amount of legroom aboard planes.
Ms. MARION BLAKEY (Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration): In the past we would issue a blanket delay for all of those planes into Newark, even those that theoretically would not have been bothered by the storm.
Foremost among Southwest's problems, accoriding to McAdoo, is over-expansion: the airline continues to swell its fleet at the rate of about 35 planes per year, even though it is losing money on many of its recently added routes.
"Even though we drive a Porsche, planes still have the right of way, " he said.
This worked well on planes, in bed and even on the coach.
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To win, Airbus must bid no more than what Boeing is bidding for the 179 planes in the package even though its plane weighs 28 percent more, and has 40 feet more wingspan.
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After the UN resolution had been passed, even David Cameron was surprised to learn that French planes were already over Benghazi.
And is it even, as a practical matter, possible for planes to be held at gates until all the people who can weigh in on this do weigh in?
For the most part, America's fleet of C-17s and aging C-5 cargo planes has held up relatively well, even as they labor to support demanding combat operations over exceedingly long distances.
They allow their ships to pass in their water, provide them with fuel, food, and supplies and allow their planes to cross their airspace and to even take off from their airports.
In some cases, he says, partnerships are even putting up their shares to collateralize loans for private planes.
How is any of this even possible, given that cell phones are banned on planes in the US?
The list also suggests using jamming equipment, and even setting up dummies as decoys to fool the reconnaissance planes.
That can be an effective means of making quick changes, even if it's not as cheap as sending planes overseas to be fixed, as JetBlue and others do.
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