TAMBARAM: Due to technical snags, three flights originating from Chennai Airport and bound for Malaysia, New Delhi and Madurai were delayed on Friday.Flights delayed due to technical snags Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 7:22 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 7:25 a.m. WASHINGTON Federal aviation officials are investigating whether air traffic controllers [...]

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The passenger jet that just missed colliding with a UFO 22,000ft above Kent… and other close encounters revealed in … (Daily Mail)Numerous close encounters are recounted in military UFO documents just released by the National Archives. It includes a commercial airliner that narrowly missed a missile-shaped object above Heathrow. TUSKEGEE — Did two Tuskegee Airmen, [...]

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19 SEP 2008 – Inter Travel And Services Learjet 60 Accident19 SEP 2008, 23:53Learjet 60N999LJ – Inter Travel And Services4 / 6 Columbia Metropolitan Airport, SC (CAE) (USA)Executive flight, during TakeoffThe flight was attempting to take off on Columbia Metropolitan Airport, SC (CAE) runway 11, but over… (more) 16 OCT 2008 – Rutaca Boeing 737-2H4 [...]

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Thomas Soles, 85, died peacefully on Oct. 15 in Harwich Port. Born on Dec.14, 1922 in Woburn, he was the youngest of Leland and Lilelena Soles’ four children and the loving husband of Ruth Soles.Thomas Soles, 85 TAMBARAM: Due to technical snags, three flights originating from Chennai Airport and bound for Malaysia, New Delhi and [...]

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Air Traffic Control students work at the Federal Aviation Administration Academy in Oklahoma City. Officials hope simulators will cut training time 20 percent to 60 percent. The agency must hire and train 1,700 controllers a year for a decade because …Game is serious for Air Traffic Control trainees – Houston Chronicle A British airliner was [...]

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The mainframes running our Air Traffic flight plans and Air Traffic are beyond antiquated.Moving Off FAA Mainframes The Challenges of Transition Controllers in Chicago, Denver, St. Louis and Minneapolis-St. Paul Now Using New Systems ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct.FAA, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Install Modernized Air Traffic Systems to Serve Four Major Airports HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh will [...]

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An Air Emirates flight to Dubai has made an emergency landing in Australia after experiencing a “technical issue”.Jet makes emergency landing (News 24 South Africa) When the pilot of a Colombian drug-smuggling plane landed at a clandestine air strip in the vast Amazon rain forest, his every move was being watched from high up in [...]

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