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Colombia air crash
2016-11-30 15:42:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
What will the team of British accident investigators in Colombia be doing?
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Amtrak crash makes air fares soar
2015-05-18 17:06:19| Airlines - Topix.net
The suspension of Amtrak train service between Philadelphia and New York City after this week's deadly crash has given a jolt to airfares connecting cities in the Northeast corridor. For example, round-trip tickets from New York to Washington, D.C., listed on Expedia cost between $699 and $1,105 on Thursday , with few tickets available, CNN reported.
Air Canada plane crash lands at Halifax airport, injures 23
2015-03-30 01:00:00| Airport Technology
A week after a Germanwings plane crashed into the French Alps, an Air Canada jet crash landed in heavy snow at Canadas Halifax international airport.
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Air Canada Airbus A320 'crash': Passengers reveal...
2015-03-29 14:28:04| Airlines - Topix.net
Flight AC624 from Toronto was carrying 138 passengers and crew when it was forced to make a "hard landing" at Halifax airport Terrified passengers have spoken of the horrific moment the passenger jet they were flying on 'crashed' as it struggled to land in poor weather. The Air Canada plane was attempting to land at Halifax airport in Canada when it skidded off the runway leaving a number of passengers with bloody faces and needing hospital treatment.
U-2 Cold War spy plane causes air traffic control to crash, grounds hundreds of planes
2014-05-06 14:55:24| Extremetech
Last week, a 1950s Cold War spy plane -- the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady -- caused hundreds of planes across the US to be grounded for an hour, and delaying hundreds more that were already airborne. The U-2, which was just minding its own business at an altitude of 60,000 feet above southern California, triggered a software bug that caused the FAA's air traffic control system to "overload" and shut down. The backup system also failed, presumably for similar reasons. The beautiful irony is that both the plane and the air traffic control software were created by Lockheed. How did an ancient plane that has been trawling the skies for almost 60 years cause such a catastrophic failure?