WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order revoking the operating certificate of Paradigm Air Operators, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, for allegedly conducting dozens of unauthorized charter flights using unqualified pilots and when it lacked
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A passenger plane landing at an airport in Istanbul has skidded off the runway and broken into three parts, killing three people and injuring 180 others, officials say. The Pegasus Airlines jet was carrying 177 passengers and six crew members from Izmir
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Investigators were scrambling Wednesday to determine the cause of a crash that killed all 176 people on board a plane that came down shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s international airport. The Boeing 737 jet, operated by Ukraine International Airlines, took off early on Wednesday
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At least 12 people were killed when a plane carrying 93 passengers and five crew members crashed shortly after takeoff near the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan on Friday morning. The plane “lost altitude after takeoff and broke through a concrete fence,”
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A British Airways flight from London to Germany accidentally took off in the wrong direction, landing 525 miles away in Scotland. The flight from London City Airport was supposed to head to Duesseldorf, Germany, but ended up in Edinburgh, Scotland, instead –
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No one survived Monday’s crash, which is the deadliest incident involving the French military since 1983. Thirteen French soldiers fighting Islamist insurgents in Mali have been killed after two helicopters collided in mid-air. No one survived the crash which happened as the
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The 19-hour survey flight on a Boeing 787 is part of the airline’s effort to launch the world’s longest flights connecting Australia’s east coast to both New York and London. If you love flying so much that you’d happily spend almost an
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Three peacekeepers were killed and a fourth was severely injured after a helicopter crashed on Friday morning local time, in the west of the Central African Republic, the UN mission to the country (MINUSCA) has confirmed. The four crew members onboard were all part of the Senegalese ‘blue helmets’ contingent, flying a Mi-24 helicopter providing
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A monthslong federal investigation into Boeing’s 737 Max plane has called into question some of the most fundamental assumptions used by manufacturers and regulators when certifying aircraft and challenged Boeing’s repeated assertions that pilots should have been able to easily handle a
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A budget airline flight was forced to divert and make an emergency landing 750 miles from its destination after the pilot unexpectedly fell ill in the cockpit during the flight. Jet 2 Flight LS765 had been scheduled to fly from Manchester, United
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