Autopilot Sinks Absent-Minded Skipper
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A Finnish commuter ferry captain has been suspended after crashing into a pier because he forgot to turn off the autopilot -- for the second time in three days.
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A US-Russian crew had to turn off autopilot yesterday and manually moor its Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station after an unidentified glitch resulted
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MINDEN, Nev., Sept. 13 -- The emptiness that adventure pilot Steve Fossett disappeared into at 10:30 a.m. on Labor Day appears almost endless from the air, a rugged moonscape of mountain ridges that deepen from brown to purple before dissolving into the horizon itself. There are mountains and more...
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Jimmie Johnsonâs series-high sixth victory of the season Sunday was tempered by word that a plane carrying members of the Hendrick Motorsports organization was missing.
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A small plane landed upside down in a pond shortly after takeoff, leaving one person dead and another missing, authorities said.
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A boat probably sank off Skye with the loss of two crewmen because one of them fell asleep, a report says.
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By Tom LochnerLegend is full of unsolved mysteries of ships that vanish without a trace. Port Costa offers a variation on the theme: the ship that appeared, apparently out of nowhere.
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By Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 24--Steven Solomon doesn't want to move a mountain.   Just a submerged houseboat.   But the chore may prove to be more difficult than he'd previously thought.
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A man from Northern Ireland is believed to be missing overboard from his dive support boat in the North Sea.
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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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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 8--CAPE CANAVERAL -- A cliffhanger countdown ended without a shuttle liftoff Thursday night as a stubborn layer of clouds forced NASA to scrub -- at the last minute -- its attempt to launch Discovery and its astronauts.
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A fresh attempt to rescue an injured ship's captain is under way, after being abandoned in "extreme" conditions.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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The difficulty of locating the missing adventurer, who was flying over rugged Nevada terrain on a perfectly clear day, frustrates rescue crews and aviation experts even as conspiracy theories sprout up online.
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On a day of shifting winds and swelling waves, the challenger from New Zealand took the lead in the America's Cup yesterday in a classic race in which it beat defending champion Alinghi and nearly lost a crew member overboard.
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A 54-year-old passenger vanished as a ship returned home from a five-day cruise to the Bahamas, and the Coast Guard launched a search.
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An apparent stowaway who suffocated to  death was found on Friday in the main wheel well of an American  Airlines passenger jet when it landed in Detroit from Miami,  authorities said.