Travel Safety Update.Nov 20, 2006 Brazil Crash Report Could Benefit US Pilots. Lawyers for two US pilots being investigated over Brazil's worst air disaster demanded on Friday their release from Brazil, saying the crash report showed their jet was flying at the proper altitude. Police seized the passports of Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino a few days after the September 29 crash of a Boeing passenger jet, which clipped wings in midair with a smaller jet piloted by the Americans for ExcelAire charter service of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . All 154 people aboard the Boeing, flown by Brazilian airline Gol, died as it crashed into the Amazon forest. The smaller Embraer Legacy jet lost a winglet wing·let n. 1. A small or rudimentary wing. 2. A short, almost vertical stabilizing fin projecting from the tip of an aircraft wing. , but landed safely. Nov 19, 2006 Twenty-one people aboard a Taiwanese airliner were hurt when the plane changed course to avoid another jet just prior to landing at an airport on South Korea's Cheju Island on Thursday. Nov 16, 2006 Delta Air Lines Carriers improve safety with airbags. Some carriers are installing seatbelts equipped with airbags that explode (1) To break down an assembly into its component pieces. Contrast with implode. (2) To decompress data back to its original form. outward during a sudden impact. The airbags will help carriers comply with new FAA requirements that carriers equip e·quip tr.v. e·quipped, e·quip·ping, e·quips 1. a. To supply with necessities such as tools or provisions. b. their cabins with more crash-resistant seats by 2009. In early 2008, Delta Air Lines will become the first U.S. carrier to install air bags. Nov 16, 2006 Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan Blames US For Runway Incident. Kyrgyzstan, home to an American military air base, blamed the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. on Tuesday for violating flight security in a September incident when a Kyrgyz aircraft hit a US military plane. Nov 14, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Nov 13, 2006 |
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