Once at altitude, Bill noticed a Northwest Airlines DC-9 a few miles off our left wing.
In 1994, 53 people were killed when a Turkish Airlines aircraft crashed in a snowstorm while trying to land in eastern Turkey.
The crash came less than a year after 154 people were killed in the September collision of a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 with a small jet over the Amazon rainforest.
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After a quick meeting and tearful farewell with his family, he is escorted into the first class compartment of a Northwest Airlines jumbo jet for a long flight to Detroit in the U.S. Upon landing, he gets a thorough medical examination by doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital, a clean bill of health, and delivers a speech to a sympathetic audience in New York.
Boeing had delivered 50 planes to eight airlines in seven countries when a fire erupted in a battery aboard a Japan Airlines 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport on Jan. 7.
Boeing's entire fleet of Dreamliners was grounded after a battery on a Japan Airlines 787 caught fire, and a malfunction forced an ANA flight to make an emergency landing.
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Safety investigators concluded rudder problems may have contributed to unexplained "rollover" crashes of a United Airlines 737 in Colorado in 1991 and a USAir 737 near Pittsburgh in 1994.
For example, a passenger flying into the UK on a American Airlines flight, but who actually booked with BA and has a BA flight number will get the same rights as a BA passenger.
On Tuesday, a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 readying for takeoff at Boston Logan International Airport sprang a leak from its main engine, spilling about 40 gallons of fuel onto the runway and causing safety workers to tow it back to the gate.
Also sometime during the flight, a Continental Airlines flight attendant was in the rear galley with co-workers preparing a serving cart when she observed Sawyerr walking towards the rear of the aircraft and enter the bathroom.
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According to the criminal Complaint filed in federal court in Newark, NJ, Aksal boarded a United Airlines flight from Phoenix to Newark on August 20th, whereupon he took a seat next to a stranger: a woman passenger, who was sitting in the window seat.
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Two recent incidents -- a fire aboard a Japan Airlines aircraft at Boston's Logan International Airport on January 7 and a smoke alarm aboard a plane flying over Japan on January 16 -- prompted the FAA to ground all Dreamliners in the United States, and other nations quickly followed suit.
In the incident aboard a Northwest Airlines flight making its final approach to the Detroit, Michigan, airport, a 23-year-old Nigerian allegedly attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear, setting off a fire at his seat on the flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
On Tuesday, a Japan Airlines flight bound for Tokyo aborted takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport after a pilot on another airplane spotted the 787 leaking fuel.
The plane slammed into a TAM airlines building after narrowly clearing the airport's perimeter fence and rush-hour traffic on a surrounding highway.
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And there is a precedent for a merger in stages: Scandinavian Airlines began as a co-operative venture between the airlines of Norway, Denmark and Sweden in 1946 and then merged in 1951.
In January, a fire started in a battery pack in a Japan Airlines 787 in Boston.
By Sunday evening, the situation had changed, according to a United Airlines spokeswoman, Megan McCarthy.
Earlier last month, a second battery caught fire in a Japan Airlines 787 parked in Boston.
Last year, a United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing due to an electrical problem.
Previously the worst accident in aviation history was a Turkish airlines crash near Paris with the loss of 346 lives.
Firstly, on 7 January, a battery overheated and started a fire on a Japan Airlines 787 at Boston's Logan International Airport.
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However, another US regulator said on Sunday the battery did not overcharge in a separate incident involving a Japan Airlines (JAL)-operated 787.
In December, a United Airlines 787 traveling from Houston to Newark, New Jersey, was diverted to New Orleans because of mechanical problems.
Last month a United Airlines 787 flying from Houston to Newark, N.
It followed a separate battery-related emergency on a Japan Airlines flight.
Families traveling with under-12s --- including babes-in-arms -- will be automatically allocated seats in the main all-economy lower deck, says a Malaysia Airlines spokesperson.
The first was on Jan. 7 aboard a Japan Airlines 787 parked at Boston's Logan International Airport shortly after landing following an overseas flight.
Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, 23, is charged with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day.
Two fresh setbacks have hit Boeing's 787 Dreamliner plane, days after an electrical fire broke out on board a Japan Airlines Dreamliner on Monday.
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