Three crew members were forced briefly to follow the same proceedure in an incident in 2009.
None of the 18 passengers and three crew members was injured, an American Eagle spokeswoman said.
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The search for a fishing boat and three crew missing off the Dorset coast has revealed a vessel on the seabed.
Three crew members, Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov, will remain on the space station when the others leave.
As a crane hoisted the Zodiac overboard, three crew members leaped in.
The 22 passengers and three crew members on board gave conflicting reports about his whereabouts both during and at the end of the trip.
The three crew members will join Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineers Aki Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko until November 12, when the current crew will depart in the Soyuz.
Suffredini said another Soyuz vehicle at the space station, which is set to fly back the other three crew members, will have its certification for the return mission expire by mid-November.
The condition of the three crew members on the Twin Otter operated by Calgary-based Kenn Borek Air Ltd. was not known nearly three days after the flight went missing and rescue attempts began.
The crew of the fishing boat Zhe Ping Yu 0158, nominated by China, for the rescue of three crew members from the stricken fishing vessel Cang Long Yu 022 during super-typhoon Fanapi, in September 2010.
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Steve Roberts, from the FBU, admitted he was concerned because the vehicle could only carry three crew members to fires as opposed to the four or five that travel with the bigger appliances currently used.
The Russian vehicle essentially took a shortcut that required precisely timed steering over the course of four orbits, putting three crew members (including one American astronaut) on the space station at 10:28pm ET -- just five hours and 45 minutes after takeoff from Kazakhstan.
The fate of the three Canadian crew members aboard the aircraft had been unknown since the the flight went missing Wednesday.
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On board were three new crew members for the International Space Station.
The three injured crew members were taken by ambulance to a hospital in La Palma and the nationality of only one of them was immediately known: Greek.
None of the hundreds of passengers aboard the British-operated vessel were involved in the accident, which also injured three other crew members, said the Canary Islands port authority.
Shuttle Endeavour, which had been docked with the Mir space station, unhooked on Thursday, about a half hour after the Russian space agency launched a Soyuz rocket with three new crew members for the space station.
They will be joined at the end of the month by three new crew members: NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fiyodor Yurchikhin and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, who are due to launch aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on May 28.
The one Russian and two Americans expect to be relieved by another three-person crew in August.
The three-man crew is the first to take the quicker route, involving just four orbits.
The Shenzhou-9 mission will launch sometime in the middle of June and carry a three-person crew.
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In three years the crew has combed through 800 applications looking for promising companies that don't need millions in startup capital and that stand a chance of making measurable progress in just three months.
The 125m vessel has been secured by three tugs and its crew of 23 still aboard.
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We are hoping to continue working with NASA and hopefully flying crew within three years.
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The pair were arrested with three members of their crew after the incident.
In phase three, the helicopter crew radioed a commander to say that at least six armed men had entered a partially constructed building in a dense urban area.
But then the Russian space program successfully launched a crew of three to the ISS earlier this week, giving the station its first full complement since September.
He said the local fire engine planned for Windsor, with a crew of three rather than the usual five would not be able to be used in case of a house fire.
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The simulation involved six crew members: three Russians, two Europeans and one Chinese volunteer.
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