sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - planes

Old jets come here, empty engine pods shrink-wrapped in white, tall red tails fading to pink in the desert sun. More will come soon. Some will never fly again.

The Air Force soon will fly commercial planes outfitted with surveillance technologies that can help troops in Iraq or Afghanistan detect mines, explosives and other enemy efforts, a senior service official said Friday.

Bank executives will get to fly their company jets after all.

Four bodies have been recovered in the Florida Everglades, days after authorities believe they died when two small planes collided in the air.

A sheriff's department plane carrying inmates collided with another small craft in the air over western Colorado on Wednesday, but both landed safely and no injuries were reported, authorities said.

Federal aviation officials are investigating whether air traffic controllers violated federal rules by rerouting four airliners to test the skills of a controller-trainee.

Mexican soldiers have found five small planes that were stolen after they were seized in an anti-drug operation.

Two inexperienced F-15C Eagle pilots made errors that caused a fatal mid-air collision during a combat training mission over the Gulf of Mexico, Air Force investigators concluded in a report released Monday.

A Georgian official warned Russia on Friday that it will have to "collect the shattered fragments" of its planes if they intrude on Georgian airspace again.

A small plane struck another craft as it was landing at an Idaho airport, killing three people and injuring three, including a 2-year-old pulled from the burning wreckage by the other survivors, officials said Saturday.

The European Union has cleared the way for airlines to allow cell phone calls during flights in European skies. Some questions and answers:

You can use your cell phone in the skies over Europe later this year under new rules that will allow air travelers to stay in touch — and raise the cringe-inducing prospect of sitting next to a chatterbox at 30,000 feet.

As CTIA-The Wireless Association opens its annual show today, looking at the latest trends in mobile technology, there are still some folks who don’t want to have anything to do with cell phones.

Your ginger-ale doesn't come in a glass anymore on most US Airways flights. On Delta you'll find yourself in a thinner, lighter seat. If you fly JetBlue cross-country, you'll get a dainty bag of 100-calorie crisps in place of the original snack box of cookies, crackers and spreadable cheese.

Two FedEx jets got too close to each other on takeoff from the Memphis airport last week because of confusion over flight numbers for the planes, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said Thursday.

Investigators were searching in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday for debris from two F-15C Eagles that could help determine the cause of a mid-air crash that killed a pilot during a training exercise.

Air Force investigators were trying to determine the cause of an apparent collision of two fighter jets that killed one pilot during a training exercise.

The pilots of two small planes didn't move to avoid each other before colliding last week near Los Angeles, killing five people, investigators said Thursday.

Two private planes flying about a mile from an airport collided, killing five people and raining debris down on car dealerships below, authorities said.

Authorities were trying Monday to learn why two small planes collided over a row of businesses, dropping a macabre shower of debris and body parts and killing someone inside an auto dealership when one of the aircraft punctured the roof.

The U.S. Navy has grounded 39 of its surveillance, anti-submarine planes due to concerns about possible structural failures in the wings.

Two small planes collided over the Everglades Saturday, crashing into the swamp, and authorities said there were likely no survivors.

Venezuela plans on buying 12 Russian-built military planes, including Ilyushin-76 transport planes and Ilyushin-78 refueling aircraft, an air force official said Wednesday.

While federal health officials agonized over precedent and protocol for flying sick people internationally, a honeymooner with a rare strain of tuberculosis panicked and took commercial flights from Europe back to North America.