Police found the empty plane on Monday around 1km (less than a mile) from the village.
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.
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.
The 787's chief engineer said Wednesday that he has "extreme confidence" in the Dreamliner Boeing's nickname for the plane even as federal investigators try to determine the cause of the fire on board an empty, parked Japan Airlines plane on Monday in Boston.
In a recent posting to her website, Michelle Malkin calls attention to the travesty of the planned memorial for Flight 93 that crashed on September 11 after its passengers heroically thwarted the designs of Islamofascist hijackers by driving the plane into an empty Pennsylvania field, saving the lives of potentially thousands of their fellow citizens on that terrible day.
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Then excitement boiled into frustration when the plane sat waiting for an empty gate.
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.
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.
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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