Downey is a commercial multi-engine rated pilot.

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Since Oct. 13, when a propeller plane crash in Papua New Guinea killed 28 passengers, nobody has died in an airliner, which is generally defined as a commercial, multi-engine airplane carrying 14 or more passengers.

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On the web I generally agree with this: if I am looking for information, I want to apply my own filters, not have a search engine do that invisibly for commercial purposes.

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Using reconciliation software from a commercial vendor, it is building a comparison engine to run its quality control business.

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The twin-engine 250 passenger 787 Dreamliner is the first commercial aircraft to use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

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My alternative idea is for the Newspaper Publishers Association, the Newspaper Society, the PPA and the commercial broadcasters to get together and create their own news search engine.

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But the early focus of the investigation suggests a potential threat to Google's plans to expand its commercial success beyond its current cash cow: the Web-search engine.

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Once the internal combustion engine made society mobile, a lot of cropland was magically converted into commercial and residential development acreage.

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Musk likened the significance of the launch to the growth of the commercial Internet -- from its underpinnings as a government initiative to the technological, economic and cultural engine it is today.

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