Once the airports officially closed it was pretty much game over for even the savviest travelers, as there was no trick up your sleeve that could make a plane take you to a closed airport, and pretty much everything in the Northeast, from JFK and Newark and Philly down to Hartford was closed.
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The UN confirmed that a white Antonov transport aircraft with false markings to make it look like a UN plane had been seen dropping supplies in an area where a rebel commander, David Yau Yau, has been operating.
"Our main version is a spontaneous move by the stabiliser into an extreme position that caused the plane to make a steep climb at high speed, " Mr Chernov told Russian NTV television.
Visibility was limited, forcing the plane to make a second approach to Almaty airport, the airline said.
After the Christmas airplane bomb scare, full-body scanners have been getting lots of attention as a way to make plane travel safer.
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By using social tools and lightweight Web apps, travel companies have moved toward a model that lets consumers experience their trips before setting foot in a plane and use discovery rather than search to make their trip, their trip, not a trip.
In addition, brain rest is recommended following a concussion, so reading, watching movies and playing video games -- things you might normally do to pass the time on a plane -- may make things worse.
Each time, she kept the printout of his flight information behind a magnet on the door of the refrigerator, and on the days he was scheduled to fly she watched the news, to make sure there hadn't been a plane crash anywhere in the world.
The entire fleet of 787s was grounded last month after a battery on one plane caught fire, while a malfunction forced another to make an emergency landing.
When you have a tight connection and want to make sure you get something to eat for the plane ride, this app is a godsend.
After three days of game drives, we were ready to make our own migration north, boarding a prop plane to Lamai in the northern Serengeti.
As the battery explosions earlier this month demonstrate, the idea that these computerized controls would make the lithium-ion batteries safe for a plane flying 40, 000 feet above sea level filled with passengers is inadequate.
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Earlier this month, a battery in a JAL 787 plane caught fire, while an All Nippon Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing because of a battery malfunction.
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The A350 is intended as a rival to the Dreamliner, which was grounded last month after a lithium-ion battery on a Japan Airlines plane caught fire, while an All Nippon Airways flight was forced to make an emergency landing because of a battery malfunction.
Lockheed also dreams of a joint venture with Airbus to make the military transporter plane that Europe desperately needs.
One way of speeding things up would be to make chips in three dimensions, rather than on a flat plane as they are today.
The party had hoped to make headlines after Nigel Farage stood down as leader so he could take on Speaker John Bercow in Buckingham at the 2010 election - he did make the headlines but it turned out they were about a plane crash that almost cost Farage his life, rather than election success.
And they settled on a single plane type because they save money and make it much less likely that passengers sit around waiting for spare parts.
Parliament could help by setting aside more money for salaries: some junior judges make barely 1m rupiah a month, not enough to buy a plane ticket from Jakarta to their more remote postings.
Two years later Cucinelli sent a plane to pick me up from Milan and make good on a long-standing promise to visit him in Solomeo, the medieval Umbrian hill town he has transformed into a version of Cucinelli-land.
Its advice: Sequester the men it was firing, put them into a van to the airport and make sure they get on the plane.
Not that Boeing is publicly jumping on any scapegoats to wholly blame for the worldwide grounding of its 787 Dreamliners after the Federal Aviation Agency ( FAA ) issued an emergency airworthiness direction (AD) in response to a battery fire that forced an All Nippon Airways plane to make an emergency landing in Japan on January 16.
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Instead of scheduling a plane, which could take longer owing to the time required to make arrangements with the local airport, drones would be lower-cost and able to operate even if there was cloud cover, he said.
Packages eventually file down a chute and into another shipping container, which is weighed to make sure the outbound plane is properly balanced.
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In 2005, a Tunisian passenger plane ended up in the sea as it was forced to make an emergency landing off the coast of Sicily.
The Spanish start-up ChangeYourFlight enables travellers to make requests for partial refunds of plane tickets they know they are not going to use via a free, three-step process.
As the plane is piloted by only one person at a time, it will have to make frequent stopovers.
The battery on one JAL plane caught fire, while an ANA flight had to make an emergency landing due to a battery fault.
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