We don't have money to take the plane and they don't want to give us a visa.
The other flight, ZH9889, hadn't yet left Beijing when the threat was received, according to the Xinhua report, but was cleared to take off after police inspected the plane.
Piccard and Borschberg will take turns to pilot the plane.
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The official said a Greek plane was standing by to take the three U.S. soldiers from Belgrade to Athens.
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One of the groups will take to the air above Panama in a transport plane to better study the sun's corona.
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.
Thirty-minute extensions would be possible if the captain reasonably believed the plane would take off within that time.
Poole still remembers the passenger who removed a fire extinguisher from the plane to take as a souvenir.
But even those statistics may or may not include incidents in which the crew requested that local law enforcement meet the plane and take control of a passenger, an FAA spokeswoman said.
We had to walk from our tiny cabin to the lodge to meet our two guides, who would take us to the six-seater float plane.
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Mr Chernov said the pilot had tried to pull the plane down six seconds after take-off, but could not avert the disaster.
Ian Larby, secretary of air search, said the grant allowed essential maintenance to take place, which otherwise could have seen the plane grounded.
The flight marked a milestone in Japan, but the plane wasn't the first Dreamliner to take flight since the problems first surfaced.
The Sita Air plane came down minutes after take-off from Kathmandu, claiming the lives of 19 people.
While early Antarctic explorers risked life and limb to reach this uncharted land by wooden ship and on foot, you can take the same trip by convenience of plane.
It's unlikely in these days of hardened cockpit doors and other preventative measures that the small folding knives could be used by terrorists to take over a plane, TSA Administrator John Pistole told a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Some passengers saw the wheel fall as the plane's landing gear retracted just after take off, but "they did not inform the cabin crew at this point", the report said.
Pugh tried to take a nap in the back of the plane on the trip from Indianapolis to Baton Rouge.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks there have been no incidents in which terrorists have successfully used sharp objects to take over a plane, which suggests the current policy of keeping even small knives off planes is working, committee members said.
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.
Another option for executives seeking an invigorating buzz is to take to the skies in an Italian military training plane for an old-fashioned dog fight.
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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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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In the end, a Sikh taxi driver races through empty streets to take them to the airport, where an Air India plane waits.
The one which stood out in early 2006 was whether the plane would pass the 90-second-evacuation test, which was due to take place in March.
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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.
Kirk Flittie, who manages the Global Observer program for AeroVironment, says operating costs are low because the plane doesn't have to take off and land very often and it uses propulsion systems and electronics developed for the company's high-flying solar-powered planes.
Of the 11 players which lined up against Real, six perished in the accident on February 6 when the plane carrying players, staff, journalists and supporters crashed in a blizzard while trying to take off at the third attempt from Munich airport.
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