Police found the empty plane on Monday around 1km (less than a mile) from the village.

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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.

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Without spare pilots or airplanes in New York, the airline decided to fly passengers to Atlanta to swap aircraft and crew rather than fly an empty plane to New York.

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As the empty AirTran plane taxied for its return to Atlanta, Peyton and Eli Manning headed off to spend some time in the region they call home.

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Then excitement boiled into frustration when the plane sat waiting for an empty gate.

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Airline seats are a perishable commodity an empty seat becomes a worthless asset once the plane takes off and this fact of aviation life has sometimes led to ruinous price-cutting.

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Loganair has put on an extra flight between Aberdeen and Shetland on Saturday and retailer Tesco chartered a Hercules transporter plane to fly supplies to the islands to restock empty shelves.

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Currently, airlines complain that they have to test each model of device individually, on every single plane in the fleet, and with a separate empty flight used for each test, before they're allowed to relax the rules for that model.

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In the end, a Sikh taxi driver races through empty streets to take them to the airport, where an Air India plane waits.

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