• Murphy said two men with plane tickets to Cairo were stuck in Luxor because the plane never showed up.

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  • Airport officials had put the death toll at around 129, but survivors say the figure could be much higher because the plane was overloaded.

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  • "If the landing gear had collapsed directly on landing it would have been a much larger incident because the plane is clearly going much faster, " he said.

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  • Kirk Flittie, who manages the Global Observer program for AeroVironment, says operating costs are low because the plane doesn't have to take off and land very often and it uses propulsion systems and electronics developed for the company's high-flying solar-powered planes.

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  • And because the data about the plane are stored digitally, Dassault's technology can keep tabs on each plane long after it reaches customers' hands.

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  • We should remember that Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon wanted the U.S. to build a supersonic transport (SST) plane because the British and French were doing so.

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  • And she came off the plane about 45 minutes after the plane was scheduled to land because of all the chaos, and she cried, held her hand up to the sky as if in prayer, and was very thankful to be home.

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  • The blocking of plans for the Queen Mother to fly to Iran in Concorde by Harold Wilson because he was worried about the plane's safety.

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  • This is because in several respects the plane is a true technology leader.

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  • Sixty-seven percent of victims killed in floatplane accidents die from drowning because they cannot exit the plane as it sinks, a CTV report said.

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  • With shame, I now recall the nervousness I felt when boarding the plane because several bearded men, included one wearing traditional Arabic dress, had gotten on board ahead of me.

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  • Boeing is again using Catia software for much of the structural design of its new 7E7 jet, but it is using Thinkid for the plane's cabin plans because of the software's flexibility in making changes.

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  • Representatives of the company stated they chartered the plane "because there were not many convenient flights to Caracas".

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  • On the day I testified before the Senate Small Business Committee seeking to repeal the new luxury tax, we were able to show that a boat builder in Texas canceled his order for a new plane because of the negative impact that the tax had on his sales.

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  • The beacon stopped working Thursday evening, possibly because the battery had run out, about a day after the plane was reported missing.

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  • Los Angeles (CNN) -- An American Airlines pilot booted Alec Baldwin off a flight Tuesday because the actor refused to turn off his cell phone after the plane's doors were closed for departure, the airline said Wednesday.

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  • Shabbar Rizvi, a lawyer who practises in the Supreme Court, says that, because Mr Sharif tried to divert the general's plane only after the army had moved in, the case is likely to have little bearing on the government's defence of the coup.

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  • "We were due to fly out of Krasnoyarsk by military cargo plane but because of the celebrations we cannot go until Thursday morning, " said Ms Daniels, from Whimple, Devon.

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  • Operators can go anywhere on the Cartesian plane (x, y and z axes) because the wheels can spin at different speeds.

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  • Operators can go anywhere on the Cartesian plane (x, y and z axes) because the wheels can spin at different speeds (see graphic).

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  • That makes the precise location of the surface where the image is to be formed much less important, because any particular plane at any given location will receive more or less the same pattern of light rays.

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  • Although Air Force One's operating costs per person far exceed the cost of even a first-class commercial ticket, the logic is that it's unfair to charge the president's campaign for the full cost of operating Air Force One because he has no choice but to fly on the presidential plane for security reasons.

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  • Because of security concerns in Beirut, the plane was scheduled to divert to Jordan.

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  • Ms. ELDRIDGE: It is, because before you can almost run on the plane if you had to.

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  • Scott Gration, a policy adviser to the campaign, received a call from Pentagon officials earlier in the week expressing concerns about the trip -- specifically because Obama was heading there on his campaign plane and campaign staff members would be accompanying him on the visit.

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  • It first flew in 1989 and went on to become the best selling 30-seater plane ever made - in part because it is very fuel efficient and has half the running costs of a regional jet.

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  • They supplied us with arrival data for the largest U.S.-based airlines for the last three holiday seasons, which we define as Nov. 20-Dec. 1 for Thanksgiving and Dec. 20-Jan. 6 for the winter holiday. (We examined only arrivals because departure delays can often be offset once a plane is airborne.) The U.S. Department of Transportation also tracks flight information for the holiday season, but FlightStats' list of airlines is more comprehensive.

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  • Flights over Europe were banned last month because of fears of the effect of volcanic ash on plane engines.

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  • Because almost from the moment Vikram Akula stepped off his plane back to India, SKS and the Indian microlenders have been embroiled in controversy.

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  • But scientists fear air travellers could be more at risk because of the lack of opportunity to move about on a plane.

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