The head of a team responsible for flight safety during eruptions told the agency that an cloud of ashes over 100 kilometres in length was moving to the northeast and could pose a threat to aircraft on international routes near Kamchatka.
"To ensure the safety of those on board, he was restrained by passengers and crew and was monitored for his own safety for the duration of the flight, " he added.
For the safety of flight crews, passengers and those potentially affected on the ground, please reconsider this terrible decision.
It also criticised the flight crew for not adhering to standard safety checks.
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Sure, there is the eternal flight-to-safety reason for always owning bonds.
Of course the markets were devastated in 2008 with a 38% decline in stocks, but the flight to safety produced 17% total returns for the 7-10 Year Treasury index.
Good for the 10 year Treasury, where the flight to safety pushed yields down to 3.23% from a recent peak of 3.53%.
"The air marshals and the flight attendants have legitimate concerns, certainly, for their own safety, but the threat of taking over a plane with a small, sharp instrument is zero, " Hawley said.
Any uptick in sentiment for the euro zone can detract from any safety flight into gold in the short term, said Adam Klopfenstein, senior market strategist with MF Global.
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Many safety improvements had been made for the return to flight, but the STS-114 mission was as much about restoring credibility to the embattled space agency as it was about testing Discovery's new features.
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Nextant installs a new interior, adds new fuel-efficient Williams FJ-44 engines, redesigned aerodynamically enhanced nacelles and transforms the flight deck with latest-generation Collins Pro-Line 21 avionics for improved safety, functionality and capability.
To add to the security worries, a hologram stamp that was to be one of the safety features for euro notes was stolen from an Air France flight from Paris to Munich in May.
Applicants for experimental permits will need to provide a description of their program, a flight test plan, documentation showing the operational safety of the spacecraft and a plan for response in case of a mishap.
The flight to safety took U.S. 10 year Treasury yields below 1.5% for the first time in history.
After reading the Delta procedures for crewmembers, there is no question that the primary job of a flight attendant is all about safety and helping passengers in a medical crisis.
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In 2010, an American woman caused outrage after she sent her adopted son back to Russia alone on a one-way flight, saying the boy, then 7, had violent episodes that made the family fear for its safety.
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In 2010, an American woman sparked outrage after she sent her adopted son back to Russia alone on a one-way flight, saying the boy, then 7, had violent episodes that made her family fear for its safety.
John Stewart, chairman of the UK Noise Association in London said the study echoed anecdotal reports from people living under flight paths who said even when levels were within recommended safety limits, noise could still be bad for your health.
This suggests fresh flight-to-safety buying by investors (including into gold), which will pull way demand for risk assets like stocks.
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Airsafe.com, a not-for-profit venture that compiles airline-safety statistics, notes only four cases in which a flight crew intentionally landed a commercial jet into a body of water.
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The Transport Committee (at 10.05am) has a double-headed session covering road safety, with junior Transport Minister Mike Penning and then moves onto flight time limitations - the acceptable hours for pilots and aircrew.
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