The board has not so far said the battery problem would endanger the safety of the plane in flight nor recommended that the planes be grounded.
Airbus was beginning to eat into Boeing's market with its A320 single-aisle jet the sort of plane that accounts for four out of five planes sold.
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For instance, a match could have many rank 1 and 2 planes, and possibly a rank 4 plane on each team.
When the American fighter planes escorting the drone approached the Iranian plane, it broke off its pursuit of the drone, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzo said two Chinese military planes were following the U.S. plane to monitor it.
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When two U.S. fighter planes escorting the drone flew toward the Iranian plane, it broke off its pursuit, the Pentagon said.
He loves planes and we started talking about the private plane market.
"The direct cause to the crash of the Chinese plane is the U.S. plane violated flying regulations by suddenly turning toward the Chinese planes and bumping into one of the planes, " Zhu said.
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Basulto, who piloted a third plane that returned safely to Miami, contends that the three planes were looking for refugees in international waters.
Accessible via privately chartered plane from Vancouver to Bella Bella with a transfer to float planes for the final leg, King Pacific Lodge is in the middle of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest.
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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The A400M military transport plane program was launched six years ago with an order for 180 planes from seven governments--Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey--but the project is running at least three years late.
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.
But there would be difficulties in getting a significant explosives payload delivered, and it appears from FBI documents that Ferdaus had scaled back his plans to only 5lbs of C-4 per plane from his original plan to use 40lbs, as it appears the planes had difficulty with larger payloads.
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The radio transmits a plane's speed, heading, altitude and GPS coordinates to all other planes similarly equipped, allowing each to map the traffic around it.
One of the planes in question, the Tupolev 154, was the most commonly used plane in the former Soviet Union, he told BBC News 24.
Lockheed is mobilizing grass-roots Web efforts and traditional lobbying to keep the plane going, and the Air Force will ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates for more planes.
And new planes, like new cars, need less maintenance, one reason a plane Forbes tracked was able to take off at 6:40 a.m. in Nice and make nine flights across Europe before ending the day at 11:50 p.m. in Glasgow.
The Air Force began monitoring the plane after noticing it flying erratically over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, and planes sent up to investigate it reported the Cessna's windows were either iced or fogged over, Edwards said.
Planes come in three colors, red, yellow, and blue, and each plane has to be landed on the runway matching its color.
Airlines have cancelled a total of 32 orders for planes so far this year, according to data from the world's two major plane makers.
He was on one of the ships, was shot by -- was strafed by the fire from the planes coming in, and yet still had the presence of mind to shoot down a plane, and won the Medal of Honor -- or was awarded the Medal of Honor for that.
South Korean planes and ships were sent out immediately after the test to collect samples, as was a Japanese plane.
The plane hasn't been flown yet, of course, and the military may never decide to buy these planes even if they do work.
For example, Southwest Airlines cut the amount of idle time for its planes at the gate by about 50%, which produced a huge fuel savings and dramatically increased plane utilization (one of the highest cost drivers in the airline industry), without negatively impacting service quality.
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As British Home Secretary Theresa May confirms that the packages in planes departing Dubai and the UK for the US indeed contained explosives powerful enough to destroy a cargo plane (and possibly a passenger plane, had they been on one), Iran continues to maintain that no explosives have been found.
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