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Another piece of the lost Malaysian MH370 airliner has washed ashore
2016-03-02 19:24:45| Extremetech
A second piece of the lost MH370 airliner may have washed ashore in Mozambique. Malaysian Airlines officials and Mozambique authorities are both urging caution until the part is confirmed, but there aren't very many 777s losing horizontal stabilizers in that part of the world.
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Air New Zealand airliner in near miss with recreational drone
2015-09-28 08:30:43| Airlines - Topix.net
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FAA investigating airliner that nearly ran out of fuel
2015-07-29 03:39:59| Airlines - Topix.net
Federal officials are investigating why an Allegiant Air passenger jet nearly ran out of fuel before landing at an airport that was temporarily closed to most traffic. The Allegiant plane with 144 passengers landed safely last Thursday at Hector International Airport in Fargo, North Dakota, after a flight from Las Vegas.
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Here's what a pilot is thinking when an airliner loses all of its engines
2015-05-30 03:21:17| Airlines - Topix.net
Last weekend, Singapore Airlines Flight 836 was traveling from Singapore to Shanghai when the twin-engine Airbus A330-343 lost power in both engines over the South China Sea. Fortunately, the pilots were able to restore power to the engines, and the flight was able to continue on to its destination.
No, expert, it's not that easy to hack an airliner
2015-04-22 09:16:16| Wireless - Topix.net
Aviation experts say there are safeguards in place that enable a pilot to override any outside attempt to commandeer a plane. Aviation has become increasingly automated, but experts say hacking into an aircraft's controls - as a U.S. security consultant recently mused about on Twitter - is still a very difficult thing to do.