First Iraqi flight lands in Damascus in 14 years
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Iraqi Airways&#39; first flight landed at the Damascus international airport in 14 years on Saturday after the company made a landmark trip from Amman to Baghdad earlier in the day.
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The government plans to reopen Baghdad International Airport to civilian flights Monday, the office of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said.
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A US Air Force transport plane landed at El-Fashir airport in northern Darfur bringing the first Nigerian contingent of a reinforced African Union truce-monitoring force to the troubled region, officials said.
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An apparent mechanical failure damaged the nose of a Bangladeshi airliner during takeoff Monday, leaving 14 passengers injured and closing Dubai International Airport, airport officials and passengers said Monday.
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The first regularly scheduled civilian passenger flight in six years arrived at Chechnya's main airport Thursday, in what officials say is yet another sign that normality has returned to the war-wracked Russian region.
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Blair flew into the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning on a British military transport plane from Jordan. He took a helicopter to the city center for talks with interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
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The first regularly scheduled civilian passenger flight since 1999 arrived at Chechnya's main airport Thursday, in what officials say is yet another sign that the war-wracked Russian region has returned to normal.
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For the first time since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, a US passenger jet landed in Vietnam today. United Airlines Flight 869 took off from San Francisco yesterday and arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly
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With a plane took off from Amman to Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi Airways, the national carrier, has resumed international flights after 14-year sanctions.
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A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam on Friday, the first since the Vietnam War ended nearly 30 years ago.
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The Boeing 737 banked sharply to the left as it roared into the sky from Baghdad International Airport. The pilot, Adel Aldoori, cupped his hand to block the sun and scanned the ground from the tiny cockpit window.
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Fourteen people were killed and 20 injured when an Iraqi bus overturned in northern Syria, the official news agency SANA reported Thursday.
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The Department of Civil Aviation Dubai, last night welcomed the inaugural Air China flight CA 941 from Beijing to Dubai International Airport.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying female employees of Iraqi Airways to the Baghdad airport Thursday, killing one and wounding 14, an airline official said.
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warplanes criss-crossed the skies. Troops took up positions in empty buildings on the Sunni Muslim city&#39;s southern perimeter. A civilian driver was shot dead near a US checkpoint on the highway, witnesses said.
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For the first time since the war ended nearly 30 years ago, a US passenger jet was on its way to Vietnam on Friday. United Flight 869 took off from San Francisco
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Fayrouz, the great Lebanese diva, returned to Damascus for the first time in three decades, a performance some considered a betrayal.