However it was not included in the official onboard stowage list due to an oversight by the personnel who packaged and stowed the flight equipment.
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In addition to consumer use, the airlines are planning to use Wi-Fi for onboard medical diagnostics, weather updates, and in-flight equipment monitoring, so ground mechanics arrive at a flight knowing what needs to be serviced.
After the Shenzhou 4 flight, Chinese media said the capsule carried all the equipment necessary for manned flight and tested life-support equipment.
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The last mission carried all the equipment necessary for manned flight and tested life-support systems.
They say they will also have to scale back flight hours for warplanes and postpone some equipment maintenance.
The review concluded the Customs and Border Patrol had "shortfalls of qualified staff and equipment, " which, together with flight limitations imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration, limited actual flight time.
Another flight left earlier on Saturday with three Lynx helicopters, equipment and more personnel on board.
The German airline, Lufthansa, received its award for being the first carrier to test biofuel in normal flight operations and greening everything from its engine-cleaning routine to cabin equipment, resulting in a full 23 percent emissions reduction.
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Besides various technical problems, such as getting enough standardised equipment to different airports, persuading grumpy passengers trundling off a long-haul flight to hang around for testing is hard, even when they are rewarded with air miles, as they were in the South African study.
The NASA spokesman explained that equipment and computer software upgrades, among other factors, helped to make Thursday's historically fast flight possible.
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