On 30 December, a 52-year-old Argentine man died of a heart attack as he was being put aboard a plane at Charles de Gaulle airport for deportation.
Washington (CNN) -- A Senate committee began its assessment of intelligence reforms put in place after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by focusing Wednesday on the alleged Christmas Day attack aboard a plane landing in Detroit, Michigan.
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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.
Two recent incidents -- a fire aboard the Japan Airlines aircraft in Boston's Logan International Airport on January 7, and a smoke alarm aboard a plane flying over Japan on January 16 -- prompted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ground all Dreamliners in the United States, and other nations across the globe quickly followed suit.
Barbara and Craig were both pilots, and Barbara once landed a plane aboard a carrier, the hardest feat in aviation.
In 1981, in Syria, over 140 hostages aboard a Pakistan Airways plane, hijacked by the militant Al Zulfiqar organization, were released after 13 days.
Two executives of Michelin, one of the world's leading tire manufacturers, also were aboard the plane, a Michelin spokeswoman said.
The National Transportation Safety Board is also asking how problems with the aircraft's lithium-ion battery system that led to a fire aboard one plane and smoke in another escaped the notice of regulators and company officials who certified the plane's safety.
On Monday, a maintenance worker discovered the electrical fire aboard an empty plane being prepared at a gate at Logan for a return trip to Japan.
It takes less than an hour to fly aboard a C-130 cargo plane from Kandahar to the main British military base in Helmand province.
Washington (CNN) -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday there is a "renewed sense of urgency in the international community" about terrorism after the Christmas Day bombing attempt aboard a U.S.-bound plane, and the U.S. should now push for global security standards for international airports and aircraft.
Three airmen aboard this plane have parachuted, but for a different reason.
Upon reaching a speed known as V2 (a calculation based on thrust, weight aboard the plane, airport elevation and outside temperature), pull back on the yoke, and away you go.
McCain, who survived two plane crashes and a massive fire aboard the USS Forrestal before his A-4 Skyhawk fighter-bomber was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, said he had not given much thought to the possibility of threats to his life as a high-profile presidential candidate.
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Stephen Push, a Virginia man whose wife of 21 years, Lisa Raines, was killed aboard the hijacked plane that hit the Pentagon said his wife would have changed her travel plans had there been a public warning about the threat.
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Fastjet's foray into the African market comes amid a tumultuous time for aviation industry in the continent -- earlier this month, a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, killed all 153 people aboard.
In 1997, a plane operated by wholly-owned subsidiary Silk Air crashed in Indonesia, killing everyone aboard.
After passengers scrambled to use vouchers from Delta for food from a Dunkin Donuts shop, the plane took off at 1:33 a.m. with more than 200 aboard, including about 150 people headed to the same cruise ship in Venice as Mr. Glover.
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Bush's day began aboard his chartered plane, "Great Expectations, " which took him from Manchester to Laconia for an 8 a.m. interview at the Laconia Evening Citizen.
Susan Crockett stood in front of her one-story Palm Coast home, which now has a huge black hole where the four-seater plane went down Friday afternoon, killing all three people aboard.
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