Crashes: Did &#39;Black Widows&#39; Bring Down the Planes?
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Sept. 6 issue - Russian officials confirmed what the rest of the world suspected: that terrorism was a likely cause of two nearly simultaneous crashes of airliners that took off from the same Moscow airport one night last week.
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As rescuers pulled bodies and data recorders from the wreckage, experts searched Wednesday through twisted metal for clues to what caused two planes to crash almost simultaneously after taking off from the same Moscow airport
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Details of the almost simultaneous crashes of two Russian airliners began to emerge yesterday - shocking a public that has become largely inured to terrorism and prompting fears of further attacks.
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There are those few uninformed that spread ill will about commercial aviation. As is the case in just about anything, people who have no understanding of something love to pick it apart. I'm sure we all know someone who refuses to fly. Their reasons most likely include "I just don't feel safe on those things." The fact is, really, that airline travel is exceedingly safe, and becoming ever safer. I will try to explain exactly why this is. I'd also like to introduce general aviation, and relate what I know about the future of air travel. It is a sad fact that the general public knows very little about aviation, and yet has so much to say about it.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 17, 2004 - US officials got a wake-up call last month about the need to screen airline passengers for explosives when two Chechen women apparently carried bombs onto two Russian planes and blew them up.
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Federal officials say weather may have been a factor in the crash of a light plane near a senior&#39;s citizens center in San Antonio that killed five people.
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25 August 2004 -- Investigators are trying to determine why two Tupolev passenger jets crashed in southern Russia late yesterday, killing 89 people, after taking off from the same airport in Moscow.
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Air travel over the holiday weekend was thrown into an epic snarl that&#39;s been blamed on everything from crashing computers to employee sick calls to lousy winter weather.
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Thanks to a break in the weather, search teams have found the black box of a cargo jet that crashed at Halifax&#39;s International Airport last week.
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Americas Amber Alert National News Center ( HOUSTON Nov 22, 2004 ) - Jet Crashes Before Picking Up Elder BushPrivate Jet En Route to Pick Up Former President Bush Crashes in Houston Fog, Killing Three Investigators search a wooded field where a twin
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_ A plane owned by a NASCAR sports organization crashed while en route to a race today, killing all ten people on board. Federal officials say two pilots and eight passengers died in the crash.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The widow of a Canadian air force pilot killed in the crash of a Bell 412 helicopter two years ago fears more will die unless the tail rotor blades on the popular aircraft are more thoroughly inspected by civilian operators.
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Two Russian passenger planes that crashed almost simultaneously last week killing 90 people were blown up in a &quot;terrorist attack&quot; but not by hijackers, investigators said Monday.
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AAIB probe continues The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has issued an update (pdf) on its investigation into the 17 January crash-landing of a Boeing 777 at Heathrow, indicating that there "were no anomalies in the major aircraft systems" and that the "autopilot and the autothrottle systems behaved correctly and the engine control systems were providing the correct commands prior to, during, and after, the reduction in thrust".â¦
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Brazil's deadliest jetliner crash was an accident foretold. For months, air safety concerns have been aired in congressional hearings, and pilots and traffic controllers have worried for years about the short, slippery runways at Brazil's busiest airport.
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MOSCOW: Two Russian passenger planes crashed almost simultaneously killing all 89 people on board and airline officials said one of the pilots had sent a hijack alert, raising suspicion of a terrorist attack.
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An event data recorder is the automotive equivalent of the black boxes used to reconstruct plane crashes.