Company Offers Softer Landing for Smaller Aircraft in Distress
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Ballistic Recovery System is cooperating with NASA to adapt its parachute safety system for small planes to work for larger jets.
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An initial report blames engine fault for the crash-landing of a plane at Heathrow.
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A British Airways plane on a flight from China crash-landed short of the runway at London's Heathrow Airport on Thursday. Three people were slightly injured.
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In these days of jittery travel, sometimes just a phone call can ground an airplane. Over the past week and a half, false bomb threats have forced at least half a dozen flights to make emergency landings in Europe, frightening passengers, tangling schedules and costing airlines big money.
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People who fly a lot tend to be nonchalant about the experience â until the plane hits a patch of choppy air. But airliners are built to take the turbulence.
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If you want to help friends in high places, a Gulfstream jet at the ready is a handy thing.
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Twenty-five TAP-Air Portugal passengers and crew were slightly injured when the plane made a hasty maneuver to avoid a mid-air collision just before landing on an island in The Azores on Friday, TAP said.
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FABENS, Texas - A small plane that had lost power briefly landed atop an 18-wheeler before crashing onto the highway, authorities said. The two people aboard the plane came out unscathed, and the truck driver never heard a thing.
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British low-cost airline easyJet   has unveiled its vision of a short haul aircraft that it hopes  will generate 50 percent less CO2 than its current planes and  can be delivered by 2015.
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Congress wants to protect fliers from getting stranded on the tarmac, but industry experts say that could make things worse
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Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) said on  Wednesday it recommended that Q400 aircraft with more than  10,000 landing gear cycles be grounded until an inspection of  the landing gear is carried out following two incidents  involving landing gear.
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Air crash investigators were Saturday continuing to seek the cause of an apparent power failure that forced a British Airways Boeing 777 into a crash landing at London's Heathrow airport, narrowly averting disaster.
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Technology may reduce midair collisions, but it wonÂt eliminate them.
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The aerospace company looks for commercial aviation turnaround to fuel growth.
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Two engines on a plane that crash-landed failed to respond to demands for more thrust, a report shows.
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Japanese company Seiko Epson said it has developed a mini helicopter that is the lightest of its kind and can be used for lifesaving and surveillance.
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In battle for skies, the US jetmaker thinks smaller planes and direct flights are wave of future, not huge carriers.