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Captain Of Plane In July LaGuardia Hard Landing Fired By Airline

2013-10-03 03:27:23| Airlines - Topix.net

Southwest Airlines has fired the captain of the plane that landed hard at LaGuardia Airport in July, injuring a number of passengers.

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Southwest Airlines fires captain involved in hard NYC landing

2013-10-02 23:23:18| Airlines - Topix.net

Southwest Airlines has fired the captain of a plane that landed so hard at New York's LaGuardia airport that its nose gear collapsed.

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FAA to permit smartphone and ebook reader usage during takeoff and landing

2013-09-24 14:59:32| Extremetech

Pressure has been mounting of the Federal Aviation Administration to change rules requiring that all electronic devices be turned off during takeoff and landing -- the periods during which even slight anomalies in instrumentation could cause potentially disastrous results. The problem is that the evidence that a cell phone or GameBoy could cause such anomalies has long been questioned. This week, the FAA is expected to finalize its recommendation to heed this fact and relax the restrictions on the use of cell phones at any point in a flight.

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Norway ditches 'moon landing' carbon capture project

2013-09-23 04:36:06| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: Norway has abandoned plans to build a full-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant at the Mongstad refinery, curtailing a $1bn project known as the country's "moon landing". The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy confirmed late last week the plans would be halted and the government will instead look to develop "at least one full-scale CCS project ... by 2020" in another location. However, government funding for the CCS test centre at Mongstad will be increased by 400 million kroner (42m) over...

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Norway drops carbon capture plan had likened to "Moon landing"

2013-09-20 19:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Norway's outgoing center-left government dropped plans on Friday for a costly large-scale project to capture carbon dioxide that it once compared in ambition to sending people to the Moon. The International Energy Agency says deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is critical to reducing carbon emissions, but so far there is no full-scale commercial plant operating anywhere in the world. "The development of full-scale carbon dioxide capture at Mongstad is discontinued," Norway's...

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