Early Wednesday morning, a Russian Ilyushin II-76 Candid cargo jet sent its first batch of humanitarian aid to Japan, the Russian Emergencies Ministry, EMERCOM, said.

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In 1996, nearly 350 people were killed when two aircraft, one a Boeing 747 operated by Saudia collided with a Kazakh cargo jet over India, in the worst incident in Indian aviation.

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Presently, the FAA is funded by both the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury and the Aviation Trust Fund, an account that receives a battery of taxes on tickets, cargo, jet fuel and frequent flyer awards.

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During cabin pressurisation tests, one of the jet's cargo doors blew open and a large section of the cabin floor collapsed.

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The mock-up has steel seats in typical coach, business- and first-class layouts on both decks plus replicas of the 555-passenger jet's staircases and cargo containers.

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As well as its thriving defence activities, IAI also manufactures a mid-size business jet for Gulfstream and carries out cargo conversions of commercial airliners, a business that suffered during the downturn but which is now picking up.

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Tests using a cargo bay from a scrap jetliner similar to the jet were completed Thursday at a Federal Aviation Administration technical center in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

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