ANA makes maiden 787 flight All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) first Boeing 787 took off from Tokyo’s Narita airport on its inaugural flight. The special charter service departed from Narita at about 12:40 loc SAFETY

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1. VIDEO: AIR France A380 hits CRJ while taxiing Video footage emerged showing an Air France Airbus A380 colliding with a Comair Bombardier CRJ700 during taxiing at New York JFK in April. The A380 “clipped the tail fin” of the parked Comair jet, causing only “material damage”. 2.

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Airlines will have two years to implement sweeping changes to pilot rest rules as part of a final pilot fatigue rule for passenger-carrying airlines released… SAFETY

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City Room blog recalls former air control tower at La Guardia airport in New York City, architectural curiosity built by mid-20th century architect Wallace K Harrison, who designed the Trylon and Perisphere for the 1939 World’s Fair; new, high-tech tower has replaced old structure, whose design and location presented security problems. Photo NYT > Air [...]

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The overrun of an American Airlines Boeing 737-800 at Kingston, Jamaica two years ago, has prompted investigators to seek a requirement for training to land… SAFETY

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City Room blog recalls former air control tower at La Guardia airport in New York City, architectural curiosity built by mid-20th century architect Wallace K Harrison, who designed the Trylon and Perisphere for the 1939 World’s Fair; new, high-tech tower has replaced old structure, whose design and location presented security problems. Photo NYT > Air [...]

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Aviation in 2010 proved to be the vehicular travel mode with the lowest fatalities in the US, according to year-end… SAFETY

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