Calls for Brazil airport to close
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Pressure mounts for Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport to close in the wake of a crash which killed 200 people.
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Los Angeles International Airport  was shut down for more than four hours on Saturday after a  reported security breach but federal officials said no  terrorism was suspected.
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Debate over the cause of Brazil's worst air crash shifted on Thursday from widespread claims of a faulty runway to potential pilot error or failure of the plane's braking systems.
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MACKAY, AUSTRALIA - A vibrating sex toy tossed in a garbage can shut down operations at an Australian airport for about an hour on Monday.
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Two Brazilian subsidiaries of General Electric Co. that provide maintenance services to financially troubled airline Vasp are calling for the bankruptcy of Brazil's fourth-largest airline.
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A radar breakdown in northern Brazil causes five flights between Sao Paulo and the US to turn back.
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An airport terminal was temporarily shut down Wednesday after a passenger aboard a flight preparing to depart bolted from the plane and triggered an alarm, authorities said.
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Just days after Brazil's deadliest plane crash, a radar outage over the Amazon spread the country's aviation crisis overseas and spawned ripple-effect delays at a half-dozen U.S. airports.
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Dubai airport, a major international hub, was closed for at least eight hours on Monday after a Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft was involved in an accident while trying to take off, officials said.
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Brazil's deadliest jetliner crash was an accident foretold. For months, air safety concerns have been aired in congressional hearings, and pilots and traffic controllers have worried for years about the short, slippery runways at Brazil's busiest airport.
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San Juan's international airport was closed for more than an hour Thursday morning after bomb-sniffing dogs alerted police to a suspicious piece of luggage, authorities said.
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Flights to and from Los Angeles area airports were halted because of an outage at a radio- communications facility. The Federal Aviation Administration halted all departing flights
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Radar that tracks planes over the vast Amazon jungle failed for several hours early on Saturday, forcing a dozen international flights to change course, Brazil's airports authority said.
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London's Heathrow Airport, the world's biggest international air hub, was threatened with closure as talks aimed at averting strikes next month ended without agreement Thursday.
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Rebels forced the city to close its airport. The fighting is spillover from the Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A broken bottle of a perfume ingredient leaking from an unclaimed bag sickened an airport worker and closed down the Fort Wayne International Airport&#39;s terminal for nearly 10 hours Wednesday, delaying about 40 flights.
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An international air traffic controllers' group said on Monday foreign experts should intervene to fix Brazil's chaotic air travel system, which the government has struggled to remedy for almost a year.