Tired pilots 'compromise safety'
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Airline safety is being compromised by pilot fatigue, a BBC News investigation finds.
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Unmanned aircraft are to help scientists with research flights that are too dangerous or difficult for human pilots.
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A pilot told nervous passengers  traveling with a low-cost Spanish airline that nearly half the  seats on their plane were out of use due to a safety problem  but it was nothing to worry about, a Spanish newspaper  reported.
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Airline warns it may file for bankruptcy if too many senior pilots take early retirement option. Delta Air LInes&#39; CEO says it faces bankruptcy if it can&#39;t slow the pace of pilots taking early retirement.
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Night-time noise from aircraft or traffic raises blood pressure even while people sleep, research suggests.
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Technology may reduce midair collisions, but it wonÂt eliminate them.
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The US Airways pilots&#39; deal extends through 2009. Along with an 18 percent pay cut, pilots will have to fly more hours each month, likely resulting in more furloughs.
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With most of the industry returning to profitability, pilots are demanding that they should recoup some of the pay and other benefits they gave up in recent years.
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Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an aircraft training ground crash which killed two RAF crew members.
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NASA yesterday released partial results of a massive air-safety survey of airline pilots who repeatedly complained about fatigue, problems with air-traffic controllers, airport security, and the layouts of runways and taxiways.
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Even environmentally aware people are unwilling to reduce the amount of flying they do, research shows.
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U.S. passenger and cargo airlines on   Tuesday sought to stop, or at least change, a Federal Aviation   Administration proposal to overhaul management of structural   fatigue in older aircraft.
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Beginning today U.S. pilots will have more reliable information about the threat of icing&#151;an airborne condition that has caused hundreds of plane-crash fatalities.
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Three recent close calls involving commercial aircraft illustrate the need for systems that can quickly warn pilots about dangers on runways, federal safety officials said Tuesday.
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Air operations by a Russian naval task force sailing from the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean represent a potential threat to the safety of civilian flights in the area, an international pilots' group warned Friday.
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The travails of passengers on a stranded flight showed how strained the system is at times when unpredictable factors like bad weather bring extra stress.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says.