• British authorities say they were planning to blow up the aircraft using liquid chemicals brought onboard a plane on carry-on luggage.

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  • When asked if his son met with the man charged with trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane on Christmas day, al-Awlaki's father said it's not likely.

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  • We have seen the effect of the alternative, the weak economic growth that we saw when giving huge tax cuts to the wealthy occurred in 2001 and 2003, and the result -- I mentioned this on the plane yesterday -- is rather extraordinary.

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  • 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.

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  • On Thursday, CEO Neeleman addressed the unpleasant conditions faced by passengers on one plane -- a flight for Cancun, Mexico, that spent about eight hours on the tarmac Wednesday before finally allowing passengers to get off after the flight was canceled.

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  • This is a special type of Earth model which traces its idealised "horizontal" surface - the plane on which, at any point, the pull of gravity is perpendicular to it.

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  • It explores the idea of a low-fuel-use plane that uses open-rotor engines mounted on what is called a Pi-tail in the stern of the ship.

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  • And a few days ago, according to one source, he was put on a plane for Amman, Jordan -- an intermediate stop on his journey home.

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  • However, despite seeing the odds on him being selected for Capello's 2010 squad shorten to 5-4 with bookmakers, Owen remains odds-on not to make the plane to South Africa at 4-7.

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  • These aspects are not intended to match his phases one-on-one but distributed across the plane.

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  • And we talked about a teenager who got on the plane - a plane with meningitis.

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  • Nearly all of these deaths resulted from small-plane crashes, not on passenger jets.

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  • Five American soldiers and two Colombians were killed after a United States military plane on an anti-drugs reconnaissance flight crashed in a remote part of Colombia .

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  • The good news, you can do much of your homework without ever setting foot on a plane--and it is not only cost-effective but also wise to do so.

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  • Two recent incidents -- a fire aboard a Japan Airlines aircraft at Boston's Logan International Airport on January 7 and a smoke alarm aboard a plane flying over Japan on January 16 -- prompted the FAA to ground all Dreamliners in the United States, and other nations quickly followed suit.

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  • Two recent incidents -- a fire aboard the Japan Airlines aircraft in Boston's Logan International Airport on January 7, and a smoke alarm aboard a plane flying over Japan on January 16 -- prompted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to ground all Dreamliners in the United States, and other nations across the globe quickly followed suit.

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  • Such a partnership could see big cost savings for the carrier, by herding short-haul passengers into trains and focusing on more profitable long-haul plane trips.

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  • Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse co-founder and chairman, said the plane should be ready for the cross-country journey on May 1, depending on the weather.

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  • More details emerge of a possible passenger fight-back on the plane which crashed in Pennysylvania.

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  • Want to use your smartphone, tablet, or e-reader on a plane during taxi, takeoff, or landing?

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  • He would carry it himself in order to study at-bats on the plane and in the hotel when the rest of his teammates were, you know, drinking or playing cards or whatever.

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  • The FAA announcement comes on the same day the National Transportation Safety Board told reporters it had identified the exact battery cell that first short-circuited on a plane in Boston in early January, but still had not determined the root cause of the electrical short.

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  • He pulled stunts--dropping a bag of bonus checks from a plane and, on another occasion, delivering them in an armored vehicle--that endeared him to subordinates.

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  • Delta takes the time to organize us on the plane as we try and find a place for our carry-on.

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  • If there were any non-SXSW travelers on the plane, they must have been mystified.

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  • 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.

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  • Were there any non-military people on the plane?

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  • Grace Flint has a device smaller than a packet of cigarettes that she can hide in your car, or on your boat or plane -- even, if it suits her, in your briefcase that will track your precise location for the next six months.

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  • For the first time in the airline's history, business class saw higher percentages of seats filled than coach, said Singapore spokesman James Boyd, so the airline switched to a luxurious all-business-class configuration, with 100 lie-flat beds on a plane big enough to carry more than 300 passengers.

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  • Huerta also explained why the FAA allowed the aircraft to fly on January 11 after a battery caught fire on a plane in Boston -- but grounded it following a 787 emergency landing in Japan four days later prompted by a battery alarm and a report of a burning smell.

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