Among many who once built big passenger planes, only Boeing and Airbus Industrie still do.
Rep. Steve Israel, D-New York, said he is again introducing a bill to require barriers on passenger planes.
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In August, 2004, two passenger planes fell out of the sky within three minutes of each other, killing eighty-nine people.
This contract will support tens of thousands of American jobs and provide China with a modern fleet of passenger planes.
Their troubles began in the 1950s when they started flying higher and needed to pressurise the cabins of their passenger planes.
Air cargo planes are believed to receive less attention than passenger planes because of the sheer volume of freight passing through.
Two passenger planes - one over Exeter, Devon, and one at Newquay, Cornwall - had laser beams shone into their cockpits on Friday night.
That has blurred the line between express services and air freight, and led to increasing use by integrators of spare hold capacity on passenger planes.
Department of Transportation bans oxygen canisters as cargo on passenger planes.
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Only 78 of Boeing's new orders were for freight aircraft but that understates the industry's importance, since many cargo planes are conversions of ageing passenger planes.
The Paris airports company, ADP, said a large number of incoming passenger planes heading for Charles de Gaulle had either being turned back or rerouted towards other airports.
Although he offers no hard evidence, Mr. McGee says that he has been told by FAA inspectors and mechanics that black-market parts are being installed on U.S. passenger planes.
There are about a dozen cargo and passenger planes at what workers call the "graveyard", an overgrown field at the far north end of the runway at the airport, which is a major transport hub for West Africa, AP reports.
Most animals can travel in the belly of passenger planes, but Lufthansa also has a fleet of 18 freight aircraft which can accommodate all shapes and size of animal -- be it hippopotamuses en route to the Philippines from Israel or rhinos and even crocodiles.
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Guns are not the only weapons banned from the passenger areas of planes.
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Billions of dollars are still expected to change hands as passenger jets, cargo planes, fighter jets and unmanned drones are snapped up.
But it remains unclear precisely when the two airlines will resume scheduled passenger flights of the Boeing planes.
BAA's claim that new larger planes will allow them to increase passenger numbers by 30m a year despite being allowed only 4% more flights.
Unmanned aerial systems, sometimes called drones, and other remote-controlled planes could pose a risk to larger passenger aircraft if they collided or were sucked into an engine.
The agency says it believes knives cannot be used to hijack planes because of strengthened cockpit doors and more passenger awareness.
Planes cause at least twice as much pollution per passenger mile as a typical private car but the day when even gas-guzzling private cars will require carbon allowances is drawing closer.
"I've flown in a lot of planes and that was a phenomenal landing, " said passenger Fred Berretta said.
The company noted their outlook for passenger revenues include the removal of one row of seats from each of its Airbus A320 planes.
The huge projected market for passenger jets over the coming years will allow both aircraft-makers to sell plenty of new planes.
Another passenger was part of a small group of fliers who try to fly on the first flights of major new planes.
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