Those two brief stretches of time when all electronic devices must be turned off -- after the doors to the plane close until it is at cruising altitude, and then again on approach for landing -- are being questioned.
The 63-year-old Fossett disappeared September 3rd after taking off in a single-engine plane from a Nevada airstrip.
The Princess Royal carried it off the specially-painted plane in a lantern and footballer David Beckham then lit a cauldron.
Several factors have combined to today's decision to buy a short take-off and vertical landing version of the plane (the F-35B) rather than the more capable F-35C variant that would have required catapults to hurl it skywards.
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Considered the world's most advanced sun-powered plane, the Solar Impulse took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View at first light for a two-hour practice run in advance of a planned multi-city, cross-country tour.
Of course, no matter how opulent the cabins get, the best part of first-class flying may be off the plane.
He could get off a plane after a grueling 20-hour trip to Asia and go fresh into a whirlwind series of meetings.
As the plane took off the 50-year-old pilot reported feeling a "slight bump" and thought the aircraft had run over a light on the runway.
William Russell thought his dream of a hybrid boat-plane was finally taking off as he saw his Flarecraft rise above Long Island Sound one recent morning.
He said air traffic control contacted the pilot after noticing an unusual manoeuvre minutes after take-off and the pilot said his plane had hit a vulture.
It is a bit like learning the safety instructions on a plane before take-off: you hope you will never need them, but you know it would be unwise to miss the lesson.
If even a self-admitted gang member gets off a plane in San Salvador or Tegucigalpa, but there is no evidence to try him for a crime, he has to be allowed to walk free.
An early version of a flexible Air Force plane with vertical take-off and landing capabilities.
Would applying extra scrutiny to people with foreign-sounding names have kept would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid off a plane?
The Osprey's tiltrotor technology makes it the world's only transport plane capable of taking-off and landing vertically and converting in-flight to fly at speeds comparable to conventional turbo-props.
The Sita Air plane came down minutes after take-off from Kathmandu, claiming the lives of 19 people.
Mr Chernov said the pilot had tried to pull the plane down six seconds after take-off, but could not avert the disaster.
The plane came down shortly after take-off and crashed within the boundaries of the huge US-run airbase, said a Nato spokesperson at the base.
That plane also was Flight 1549 -- also taking off from LaGuardia to Charlotte, North Carolina, but on January 13.
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Bush arrived at the huge carrier off the California coast on a Navy plane, sitting in the co-pilot's seat.
On Monday, troops from the Indonesian Air Force's special forces, the Paskhas, herded goats off the Dili tarmac and watched curiously as a C-130 Hercules transport plane brought in a unit of Australian commandos.
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She was known for camping out each summer with the Air Force Academy freshman class, for going up in almost every kind of plane the Air Force flies, and for taking off on early-morning bicycle treks when she visited bases around the country.
They are the biggest purchaser of the revolutionary Osprey tiltrotor, which pivots its engines so it can take off like a helicopter, but fly as far and fast as a fixed-wing plane.
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Doctors do have an incentive to see these patients, even at a low payout, because they've already met their fixed costs--just like an airline selling cheap tickets right before the plane takes off.
The controversy of Jeremiah Wright, Mr Obama's former pastor who had made wildly paranoid and angry anti-American comments from his pulpit, was raised yet again. (Mrs Clinton sought to make a bit more hay.) Mrs Clinton's daft statements that she had braved sniper-fire to visit Bosnia in 1996 (video had shown her calmly walking off her plane) were chewed over once more.
Thirty-minute extensions would be possible if the captain reasonably believed the plane would take off within that time.
Even early this morning, a New York-bound flight from London turned around in midair after a cell phone went off on the plane.
In most airports, you are hustled off the plane and up stairs, down escalators, around corners, and along endless low-ceilinged, interior corridors before you have the privilege of standing in a line to show your passport.
One well-known study in 1979 found that when a plane sat three hours with its engines off and no air circulating, 72% of the 54 people on board got sick within two days.
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