The Dornier 228 aircraft had been heading for Lukla, the hub for trekking in the Everest region.

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InterGlobe today is a franchisee of Galileo, represents companies like Hawker Beechcraft, Sikorsky, Dornier Seaplane and Pacific Aerospace.

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Unlike the other spectacular bankruptcies of recent months, the collapse in April of the aircraftmaker Fairchild Dornier was easy to miss.

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Their Dornier 288 plane tracked the edge of the plume over East Anglia and the North Sea, and towards the Dutch coastline.

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In the case of Fairchild Dornier, an aircraft firm bought by America's Clayton, Dubilier and Rice in 1997, poor business strategy led to bankruptcy.

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Two companies, HealthTronics Surgical Services of Marietta, Ga. and Dornier MedTech of Munich, Germany, have each gained FDA approval for shock wave machines for heel pain.

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The general manager of Tribhuvan International Airport, Ratish Chandra Lal Suman, said in a statement that the plane, a twin-propeller Dornier, had struck a vulture soon after take-off.

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Albert, 60, had bought Fairchild out of a previous bankruptcy in 1990 and turned it into the third-largest manufacturer of short-range jets, in part by acquiring 80% of Daimler-Benz's Dornier unit.

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But Harvard orthopedic surgeon George Theodore, who helped conduct the Dornier study, claims that the failed studies are flawed because they used low-energy shock-wave pulses that were below the threshold needed to have a heel-healing effect, unlike the successful FDA studies that used higher energies.

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