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What Airlines Are Doing For Traffic Control

Airlines are directly affected by the traffic control problems that have plagued the airline industry. Flight delays are increasing to record levels, and delays are something the airlines cannot afford.

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Are Air Traffic Controllers Burning Out?

Air travel volumes are rebounding to pre-9/11 levels, and growing fast. In the meantime, flight delays have reached record levels, and rising fast. In June, close to one-third of domestic flights were late....

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Are Skies Being Made Safer?

On Aug. 27, 2006, a Comair commuter jet used the wrong runway for takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky. That crash resulted in the death of 49 of the 50 people on board....

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Plane Avoids Near-Collision in Majorca

A Boeing 737 filled with 146 British tourists on their way to a holiday in Majorca Monday, Sept. 3, narrowly avoided crashing into another plane at the Palma Airport on the island of Majorca, Spain....

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Brazilian Airlines to Avoid Rio Airport During Rains

Brazil’s biggest airlines on Tuesday, Aug. 28, instructed their pilots to avoid landing at Rio de Janeiro’s Santos Dumont domestic airport during rainy weather. This is a direct result last month’s accident in Sao Paolo, where a jetliner crashed while landing under wet conditions, killing 187 passengers and crew plus 12 people on the ground....

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China Airlines Jet Catches Fire

The engines of a China Airlines plane caught fire soon after landing at Naha Airport, Okinawa, Japan last Aug. 20, 2007. All of the 157 passengers and 8 crew members were able to slide down emergency chutes and escaped unharmed....

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2007 SUVs Safer Than Earlier Models

The newer 2007 models of sport-utility vehicles are now less prone to fatal rollover crashes, thanks to anti-rollover technology....

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Election Day: Vote, But Drive Carefully

The coming election has many historic aspects to it and everyone should exercise the civic duty to vote for the country’s next president. But you’ll need to be careful because fatal car crashes tend to increase on presidential election days, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association....

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