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jet stories: 13 news summaries
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 Hijacker of Canadian Jet Surrenders 


Apr 20, 09 3:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The hijacker of a Canadian jet demanding to fly from Jamaica to Cuba has freed the six crewmembers he was holding and surrendered, reports the BBC. The man, whom authorities described as "mentally challenged," appeared to check in normally last night, then forced his way aboard the CanJet... More »

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crime • Cuba • Jamaica • airline • aircraft • hijack • hijacker • jet • airline passengers • airplane • crew members • CanJet • Montego Bay

 Jet Tail Hits Australian 
 Runway on Takeoff 

Passengers terrified, but no one hurt in Emirates plane's Melbourne liftoff

Mar 21, 09 7:42 AM CDT
(AP) - The tail of an Emirates jetliner carrying more than 225 people slammed into the runway as it took off from Melbourne, Australia, last night, sending smoke into the cabin and forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing. No one was hurt, but passengers described being terrified after learning something... More »

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Melbourne • plane crash • Emirates • jet

 Jumbo Hostel: In This Plane, 
 It's Safe to Crash 

Swede converts jumbo jet into hostel

Jan 10, 09 10:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Once, jumbo jets were simply a way from point A to point B—but a new Swedish hostel makes a grounded plane a destination in itself, Wired reports. The 25-room, 85-bed Jumbo Hostel, situated by the Stockholm airport, opens next week. For $45, you can stay in a dorm; if... More »

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airport • Sweden • hotel • Stockholm • jet • airplane • hostel

Companies Fly to Unload Private Planes

Putting jets on block may be more about image than money

Jan 9, 09 3:01 PM CST
(Newser) - The business-jet industry couldn’t have asked for worse PR than members of Congress ripping auto executives for traveling by company plane to beg for taxpayer money. By the time the Big Three execs returned—by hybrid car—to Washington, the corporate jet was a symbol of bloated corporate excess,... More »

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Chrysler • Citigroup • General Motors • Ford • jet • airplane • US automakers • private jet • financial crisis

Madoff Was Livin' Large in Lap of Luxury

High-roller owns yacht, jets, and properties up and down East Coast

Dec 24, 08 4:12 AM CST
(Newser) - If disgraced money-man Bernard Madoff felt any guilt about his Ponzi-scheme hedge fund, you'd never know it. Now that he's under house arrest, his "lifestyle of the rich and infamous" is somewhat limited, but in a fitting tribute to a man who just fleeced investors of $50 billion, CNN... More »

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Florida • Matt Lauer • hedge fund • jet • Ponzi scheme • French Riviera • yachts • scandal • Ernest Hemingway • apartment • Bernard Madoff

US Fighter Jets Ordered to Shoot Down UFO

Aircraft carrier-sized ship darted off; pilot ordered to keep silent

Oct 20, 08 7:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - US fighter jets were ordered to shoot down a UFO over England during the Cold War, newly released files reveal. What appeared to be a massive "aircraft carrier" in the sky hovered before darting off undamaged, said one of the military pilots, who was later threatened by a well-dressed... More »

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London • UFO • jet • Alitalia • Heathrow Airport • Close Encounters • Defense Ministry

City Covered Up Yeager's Fabled Bridge Stunt

Press, public kept mum about '48 flight under city bridge

Oct 8, 08 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - When local son Chuck Yeager flew his jet under a Charleston bridge in 1948, there was no advance warning—and no official record of it afterward. The rebellious fighter pilot was scheduled to buzz a boat race, but no one expected him to do it from 6 feet above the... More »

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Air Force • Charleston • pilot • West Virginia • jet • Chuck Yeager

Airbus, Boeing Hindered
by Wait for Seats, Toilets

Overwhelmed small suppliers struggle to produce equipment on time

Aug 8, 08 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Production delays are plaguing Airbus and Boeing as the airplane manufacturers wait for simple supplies such as seats, toilets, and gallies for their new widebody jets, the Wall Street Journal reports. Small firms charged with making such supplies have been slowed as demand has soared. The interrupted production means higher... More »

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Boeing • airline industry • Airbus • Aircraft manufacturers • delay • jet • airplane

Hole in Qantas Jet Forces Emergency Landing

Gap ripped in fuselage after mystery bang

Jul 25, 08 4:17 AM CDT
(AP) - A Qantas flight en route to Australia from London made an emergency landing in Manila today after a mysterious bang punched a 9-foot-wide hole in the fuselage and sent the Boeing 747-400 plunging thousands of feet. There were no injuries but some of the 350 passengers and crew vomited, AP... More »

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Australia • Qantas • Manila • jet • Boeing 747 • emergency landing

Boeing Moves
to Speed 787 Production

Buys pre-assembly plant that caused serious delays

Mar 29, 08 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Seeking to stem mounting delays in the production of its breakthrough 787 jetliner, Boeing is getting more involved in the early steps of the assembly process, the Chicago Tribune reports. Boeing said yesterday it will buy out a partner's share of a South Carolina plant that assembles two rear sections... More »

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Boeing • airline industry • Boeing 787 Dreamliner • manufacturing • delay • jet • airplane

Virgin Tests First Biofuel Plane

Jet flies on coconuts and babassu nuts

Feb 24, 08 12:35 PM CST
(Newser) - A Virgin Atlantic jet powered partially by a coconut- and Brazilian babassu nut-based biofuel made it from London to Amsterdam today in the first commercial flight to do so, the BBC reports. Virgin topdog Richard Branson hailed the flight as "pioneering" in the development of "fuels of the... More »

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Richard Branson • London • biofuel • Virgin Atlantic • Amsterdam • jet • Boeing 747 • coconuts • babassu nuts

Thompson Co-Chair Quits Over Crooked Past

Cocaine, bookmaking and other charges fell Thompson's longtime friend

Nov 5, 07 5:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Old drug and bookmaking charges felled a co-chair of Fred Thompson’s presidential bid today, the AP reports. Philip Martin stepped down as head of Thompson’s fundraising group after his criminal record surfaced, including charges of conspiracy and cocaine trafficking in the 1970s and '80s. “I deeply regret... More »

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Fred Thompson • taxes • drug dealing • jet • Philip Martin

Dreamliner Delayed Again

Issues in supply chain, flight software slow production of Boeing's new jet

Sep 5, 07 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The maiden flight of Boeing's next-generation jet, the 787 Dreamliner, has been delayed until November or December, the manufacturer announced today, blaming problems in the supply chain and flight-control software. Nevertheless, the Seattle Times reports, Boeing remains on schedule—with much less room for error—to deliver the first aircraft... More »

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Boeing • Boeing 787 Dreamliner • plane • jet • airplane

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