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UK Cops Pull Suspected Drunk Pilot Off United Jet

London-Chicago flight canceled; Erwin Washington in custody

Nov 10, 09 6:33 PM CST
(AP) - British police pulled a United Airlines pilot off a Chicago-bound plane today at Heathrow airport and charged him with being over the alcohol limit while on the job. Police and airline officials say Erwin Vermont Washington, 51, was pulled from United Airlines Flight 949 after a co-worker suspected him of... More »

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United Airlines • Scotland Yard • pilot • Heathrow Airport • drunk • flying • Erwin Vermont Washington

RUNAWAY PLANE

FAA Revokes Northwest Pilots' Licenses

Distracted duo have 10 days to appeal

Oct 27, 09 4:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The distracted pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 are no longer pilots: the FAA today announced it has revoked the licenses of Timothy Cheney, 53, and Richard Cole, 54, for the incident last week in which the pair overshot their destination airport by 150 miles. The pilots, who attributed the... More »

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FAA • Northwest Airlines • NTSB • pilot • distraction • license

 Naptime Nothing New for Pilots 

Cole, Cheney interview by NTSB investigators

Oct 26, 09 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pilot naps and arguments are hardly unique in airline screw ups, statistics reveal as investigators try to figure out what caused Northwest Airlines flight 188 to overshoot its destination airport by 155 miles. Pilots Timothy Cheney and Richard Cole, who were interviewed yesterday NTSB investigators, claim they missed the Minneapolis... More »

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runaway plane

Cockpit Recorder No Help in Northwest Flight Probe

Device captures just half an hour; record of 78-minute gap lost

Oct 23, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Because the aircraft has an old cockpit voice recorder, the world may never know why the pilots of Northwest Flight 188 lost contact with ground control for 78 minutes. The recorder on the Airbus A320 has a maximum memory of 30 minutes, after which it tapes over itself. So investigators... More »

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Wisconsin • FAA • Northwest Airlines • San Diego • NTSB • Delta • pilot • Minneapolis airport • pilot fatigue • Air National Guard • airlines • F-16 • NORAD

Pilots May Have Dozed Off Before Landing

Feds open investigation after plane overshoots airport by 150 miles

Oct 22, 09 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Travel regulators suspect the pilots of a Northwest Airlines flight fell asleep in the cockpit yesterday. First clue: Controllers lost contact with the plane for more than an hour as it overshot its destination by 150 miles. The jet, en route from San Diego with 147 passengers aboard, finally turned... More »

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Northwest Airlines • airport • pilot • pilot fatigue • nap • National Transportation Safety Board

 Pay Cuts: America's New Norm 

Nine straight months of declining pay sets new record

Oct 14, 09 7:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - In previous recessions, layoffs were the principal way for employers to cut costs—pay cuts were seen as demoralizing and a sure-fire way to lose workers to other jobs. But now pay cuts, sometimes in the form of demotions or shortened workweeks, are more common than at any time since... More »

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wages • recession • unemployment • pilot • furlough • pay cut

Two Pilots
Face Extradition in Dirty War Death Flights

Some 1,000 Argentines were hurled into sea

Oct 6, 09 5:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two Argentines charged with piloting notorious "death flights" during the country's brutal military dictatorship are facing extradition. The pilots, one arrested in Argentina and the other in Spain, are accused of flying the flights from which more than 1,000 drugged and blindfolded students, intellectuals, and trade unionists... More »

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Latin America • human rights • war crimes • Argentina • disappearance • dictatorship • pilot • Dirty War

Pilot, Crew Slug It Out
on Air India Plane

Fisticuffs erupt over sex harassment complaint by flight attendant

Oct 5, 09 1:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pilots and crew members on an Air India jet came to blows mid-flight in an argument about sex harassment. Stunned passengers watched grappling staffers spill out of the cockpit into a galley. The fight erupted when a flight attendant complained about harassment by the pilots en route from Pakistan to... More »

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Pakistan • India • sexual harassment • flight attendants • airline safety • pilot • New Delhi • pilots • Air India

Capt. Sully Plans Return to Flying

Hero pilot will also become part of US Airways' safety management team

Sep 28, 09 5:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chesley Sullenberger, who saved the passengers and crew of US Airways Flight 1549 when he executed daring water landing on the Hudson River in January, will soon return to flying. The hero pilot's return to the cockpit is imminent, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles reports. In addition to flying,... More »

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airline industry • US Airways • aviation • rescue • pilot • Hudson River • management • Chesley Sullenberger • Flight 1549 • NBC Local

TV REVIEW

 Modern Family 
 Is 'Startlingly Good'  


Sep 23, 09 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - ABC's Modern Family is a critics' darling, who generally think it's a clever update of the family sitcom, and one that doesn't sacrifice the tenderness we've come to expect from the classics of the genre. A sampling:
  • The series, "with its multifamily approach and semi-documentary form, redefines, updates
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television • ABC • pilot • sitcom • network television • Ed O'Neill • Modern Family • family comedy

(Newser) - A judge has reinstated Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against CBS and granted the former anchor access to thousands of pages of documents pertaining to his ouster following a network story he ran critical of former President George's Bush performance in the Texas Air National Guard. Rather's attorneys believe the... More »

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military • CBS • Dan Rather • pilot • anchor • George W. Bush • ROTC

 Air France Pilot's Body Found 


Jun 25, 09 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The body of the pilot of the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1 has been recovered, Reuters reports. A pilots union identified him as Marc Dubois, a 58-year-old Frenchman who had 21 years of experience at the airline. A male steward also was identified. More... More »

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autopsy • pilot • bodies • Air France • Air France Flight 447

(Newser) - Some special-agent pilots for the Drug Enforcement Administration say the agency is illegally coercing them to work in Afghanistan, McClatchy reports. In interviews, more than a dozen agents said superiors were punishing agents with 2-month Afghan tours, or threatening demotions if they refused to go. "What's going to happen... More »

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Crew Asked for Doc But Kept Pilot's Death a Secret

Passengers had no clue

Jun 18, 09 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - They didn't explain why, but the crew of Continental Flight 61 asked passengers about halfway through their flight whether there was a doctor on board. It was only when the plane landed that passengers learned their 60-year-old captain had died somewhere between Brussels and New Jersey, the Star-Ledger reports. The... More »

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UPDATED

Plane Lands at Newark After Pilot Dies Midflight


Jun 18, 09 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Continental Airlines flight has landed safely at Newark after its captain died during the flight, CBS 2 TV in New York reports. "The crew on this flight included an additional relief pilot who took the place of the deceased pilot," the carrier said in a statement. “... More »

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 Brit Princes Yearn 
 to See Front Lines 

William, Harry living together during pilot training

Jun 18, 09 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prince William is older, but Prince Harry went to war first—and, he says, “if Harry can do it then I can.” Harry, joining his brother at the media event yesterday, said his helicopter training is the “easiest way of getting to the front lines,” People... More »

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Prince William • Prince Harry • war • pilot • Royal Air Force • British royals • Apache helicopter • Lynx helicopter

Safety Worries Mount
as Regional Airlines Soar

Pilot pay and training eyed amid recent accidents

Jun 15, 09 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Regional airlines have risen to new heights in recent years as major carriers outsource to the smaller firms. But as the regional outfits have grown, so have safety concerns, reports the Chicago Tribune. Pilots for the smaller airlines are often driven by modest salaries to work overtime, and some wonder... More »

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 Air Force Pilot Killed 
 in Mojave Desert Crash 

Crewman injured after jet crashes during training mission

May 22, 09 6:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A military pilot was killed when his jet crashed in the Mojave Desert north of California's Edwards Air Force Base yesterday, the AP reports. Military officials said the T-38 Talon was on a training flight. The navigator ejected and is in stable condition in hospital. The crash, still under investigation,... More »

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Edwards AFB • plane crash • Mojave Desert • pilot • US Air Force • training flight

 Pilot Transcripts Show 
 Idle Talk, Then Terror 

Flight 3407 transcript released ahead of public hearing

May 12, 09 12:21 PM CDT
(AP) - Just seconds before the worst US air crash in more than 7 years, the pilot exclaimed "Jesus Christ" and moments later his first officer screamed as Flight 3407 plunged to the ground. A cockpit voice-recorder transcript released today shows that only minutes before the Feb. 12 crash outside Buffalo,... More »

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investigation • FAA • black box • plane crash • NTSB • pilot • ice • Buffalo • Flight 3407

(AP) - A passenger landed a twin-engine plane in Florida yesterday after the pilot died during flight. FAA officials say he died after takeoff from a Naples airport while the plane, which had six people on board, was on autopilot and climbing toward 10,000 feet. The passenger who took over is... More »

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Florida • pilot • hero • airplane

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