BA planes undergo radiation tests
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Two BA planes undergo more tests after traces of radiation are found in the probe into an ex-spy's death.
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LONDON -- Officials have found traces of radiation on two British Airways jets, and the airline appealed yesterday to tens of thousands of passengers who flew to or from Moscow and other cities to come forward as investigators widened the search for clues into the poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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British Airways (BA) is to increase its fuel surcharges on long-haul flights for the second time in six weeks.
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Defense contractor tests system designed to protect airliners from laser-guided shoulder-fired missiles.
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Britain is monitoring a Russian plane and three British aircraft in an ever widening probe into the death from radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy that has heightened tensions with Moscow.
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Radiation detectors set up to alert authorities to potential dirty bombs are sounding the alarm about some unlikely suspects: patients who have had tests or treatments using radioactive medicines.
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A British Airways jet continued with a transatlantic flight despite flames coming from an engine on take-off.
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The FBI, concerned that terrorists could use lasers as weapons, is investigating why laser beams were directed into the cockpits of commercial airliners six times over the last four days.
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The cabins of commercial jets will be tested for toxic fumes after a government-backed report called for an investigation into whether pilots are being disorientated by poor quality air.
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Investigators are to begin an examination of a site where two people died in a collision involving two aircraft.
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Traces of radioactivity were found on planes that flew to Moscow days before a former Russian K.G.B. agent fell ill.
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Passengers from the following British Airways flights have been asked to contact British officials.
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One of the two Russians who met with Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell mortally ill was on a British Airways aircraft being tested for radiation, a Russian newspaper reported as the investigation into the former spy's death continued.
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Mechanical failure 'unthinkable' Experts have suggested that the simultaneous failure of both engines of the BA 777 which last week crash-landed at Heathrow must have been caused by a computer glitch, the Times reports.â¦
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In the latest discoveries after the the poisoning of an ex- K.G.B. agent, radiation was found at 12 sites in Britain.
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The health scare triggered by the death of a former Russian spy in Britain escalated as more radioactive sites were revealed and over 30,000 air passengers were alerted about contaminated planes.
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A British Airways passenger plane flying from Berlin to London reported an unspecified security threat and made an emergency landing in Amsterdam on Thursday, escorted by two Dutch F-16 jet fighters, the airline said.