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NE US Braces For Second Major Snowstorm In A Week
A record-breaking winter storm hit the northeastern United States on Monday, the region's second snowy blast in less than a week, after leaving more than a foot (30 cm) of snow in the Chicago area. The storm hit residents from New York City to Boston with snow, freezing rain and gusty winds, and was blamed for at least three deaths. About 2,900 flights were cancelled due to snow and ice at Chicago O'Hare, Newark Liberty, Boston Logan and New York LaGuardia airports, according to Flightaware.
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AirAsia Captain Said To Have Left Seat Before Crash
The captain of the AirAsia jet that crashed into the sea in December was out of his seat conducting an unusual procedure when his co-pilot apparently lost control, and by the time he returned it was too late to save the plane, two people familiar with the investigation said. Details emerging of the final moments of flight QZ8501 are likely to focus attention partly on maintenance, procedures and training, though Indonesian officials have not ruled out any cause and stress it is too early to draw firm conclusions. The Airbus A320 crashed into the Java Sea while en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore on December 28, killing all 162 people on board.
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Chorus orders up to 23 Q400s, announces second airline
Canadian regional carrier Chorus Aviation has placed a firm order for 13 Bombardier Q400 turboprops worth $424 million after signing an amended capacity purchase agreement with mainline partner Air Canada. The deal includes options to buy another 10 Q400s with a list price of $334 million.
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IAG Offers Route Pledge In Aer Lingus Bid
IAG has committed to serving London to Ireland routes for five years in a bid to win backing from the Irish government for its takeover of partly state-owned Aer Lingus. The Aer Lingus board last month recommended an improved EUR€1.36 billion (USD$1.5 billion) offer from British Airways owner IAG subject to the agreement of its two largest shareholders, Ryanair and the Irish state. Under pressure from Aer Lingus's unions and opponents in parliament, resistance is building within the government in Dublin to parting with its 25 percent holding, with worries that a takeover could reduce connectivity between Ireland and London.
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Korean Air 'Nut Rage' Exec Treated Crew "Like Slaves"
The daughter of the boss of Korean Air, on trial in a case popularly known as 'nut rage', treated flight crew like "feudal slaves", a chief steward said in court on Monday. Heather Cho Hyun-ah, former head of in-flight service, and daughter of Korean Air chairman Cho Yang-ho, is on trial for breaking aviation laws and conspiring with other company executives to force crew members lie about the December 5 incident. Cho had demanded the chief steward, Park Chang-jin, be removed from a flight at New York's John F. Kennedy airport after a first class flight attendant served her macadamia nuts in a bag, not on a dish.
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MH370 declaration leaves cause unaddressed
Formal declaration of the Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappearance as an accident frees the carrier to begin certain procedural work, but the causal factors behind the loss remain undetermined. The investigation has reached no conclusions over the reasons behind the Boeing 777-200ER’s vanishing while en route to Beijing on 8 March last year. No trace of the aircraft has been located but the Malaysian government referred to the definition of ‘accident’ afforded by Annex 13 to the Chicago Convention – a definition based purely on the status of the aircraft and its occupants, not the circumstances.
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Qatar Air Mulls Halting Japan Service Over Slot Row
Qatar Airways is considering withdrawing its services to Japan because of industry losses that it blames on airport restrictions. The airline is "in the final stages of deliberations" about whether to withdraw the three daily services, which include one operated with its new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a person close to the Gulf carrier said on Monday. The routes are from Doha to Osaka, Tokyo-Narita and Tokyo-Haneda.
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Southwest is poised for profitable year
Columnist Adam Levine-Weinberg chronicles the recent performance of Southwest Airlines. "Including the impact of lower fuel prices, Southwest is on pace to reward investors with the best profit margins in its history in 2015 and beyond," he writes.
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Sea-Tac shows fastest growth for large U.S. airports, port says
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport boasts the fastest growth in the U.S. for large airports, according to the Port of Seattle. The airport handled almost 37.5 million passengers last year, a 7.7% increase from 2013.
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RAF Sentry AEW aircraft deploys in support of counter-IS mission
The Royal Air Force has deployed its Boeing E-3D Sentry airborne early warning and control aircraft in support of the UK’s contribution to the mission to counter Islamic State terrorists in Iraq. Joining an array of RAF aircraft already deployed from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, the aircraft was delivered on 27 January from its usual stationing with 8 Squadron at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. It will join aircraft from the 903 Expeditionary Air Wing that is operating in support of the counter-insurgency mission.
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Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.
— Igor Sikorsky
On This Date
---In 1934... The first scheduled trans-Atlantic airmail service between Berlin, Germany, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is inaugurated by Luft Hansa. The journey is made in four stages.
---In 1945…The US Army’s Eighth Air Force launches Operation Thunderclap: 1,000 B-17 bombers raid Berlin, killing 3,000 and leaving 120,000 homeless.
---In 1946... Pan American inaugurates the first commercial use of Lockheed Model 049 Constellation with the aircraft’s first scheduled service between New York and Bermuda.
---In 1948... All 145 pilots and co-pilots at National Airlines go on strike, grounding the carrier’s 22 aircrafts. The dispute is mainly over air safety.
---In 1959…The Day the Music Died: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed when the 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza 35 they had chartered from Dwyer Flying Service to fly from Clear Lake, Iowa to Moorhead, Minn. crashes about five minutes after takeoff. The inexperience of the young pilot, who was also killed, along with poor weather conditions would be blamed for the crash.
---In 1961…The US Air Force Strategic Air Command commences Operation Looking Glass, a continuous airborne alert intended to provide continuity of nuclear command in the event that the USSTRATCOM Global Operations Center at Offut AFB, Nebraska, the Raven Rock Military Complex in Pennsylvania and the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon were destroyed. EC-135 Looking Glass aircraft were was in the air 24 hours a day for over 29 years until July 24, 1990, several months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The alert remains in existence but is no longer continuously airborne. In 1998, Looking Glass duties were transferred to US Navy E-6B aircraft.
---In 1964... The Federal Aviation Agency launches Operation Bongo Mark 2 to investigate the effects of supersonic flight; over the coming months, a Convair B-58 will fly through the sound barrier at low altitude over Oklahoma City.
---In 1965…Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km).
---In 1966…Luna 9, an unmanned Soviet spacecraft, makes the first successful landing on the Moon.
---In 1966…1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US.
---In 1982... A Mil Mi-26 helicopter sets a world record in the U.S.S.R., lifting 125,153.8 lb. to a height of 6,562 feet.
---In 1984…Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral on mission STS-41B, Challenger‘s fourth launch and the 10th shuttle mission overall. The mission would feature the first ever untethered spacewalk and the crew would deploy two communications satellites.
---In 1994…STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit.
---In 1995…STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit.
---In 1998…The Cavalese cable car disaster: A US Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler jet on a low-altitude training flight slices through a cable supporting a ski gondola in Italy’s Dolomite mountains, sending 20 people aboard a tram plunging 250 feet to their deaths.
---In 2005…Kam Air Flight 904, a Boeing 737-200 (EX-037), crashes into the Pamir Mountains during a snowstorm while on approach to Kabul from Kerat, Afghanistan, killing all 96 passengers and 8 crewmembers.
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