Topic: Bill Voss
0 . How old is too old for an airplane?. . Most travelers don't think twice about it - although there's something unsettling about easing into your...
" It'sbad enough that the airlines charge a fee for overweight luggage,varying from $39 to $300 per bag industrywide. Brandon Macsata, executive editor of theD.C.-based lobbying group Association for Airline Passenger Rightsadvises passengers to weigh their bags at home ...
Northwest pilot whose plane missed Twin Cities by 150 miles says no one in cockpit was asleepThe first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by 150 miles says there was no fight in the cockpit, neither he nor ...
Worries over pilot fatigue prod government, airlines to change rules on rest for airline crewsCrowded skies and exhausted pilots are a bad mix, the airline industry and pilot unions agree, but they're struggling over what to do about it.The airlines ...
Yemenia Airbus was 19 years old, but experts say planes can safely fly well past thatThe Airbus 310 that crashed Tuesday was 19 years old, yet experts say older planes can keep going strong for years as long as companies are willing ...
currently, planes go out of radar range after 200 miles (320 kilometers) from land.The Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared nearly four hours after takeoff on Sunday night. It was Air France's deadliest plane crash and ...
Forbidding waters may prevent crews from recovering Air France flight recordersThe flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 could be scattered nearly anywhere across a vast undersea mountain range that lies as much as four miles below the surface of the Atlantic ...
Investigators about disappearance over Atlantic of Air France jet with 228 aboardWas Air France Flight 447 downed by wind and hail from towering thunderheads? Or by a catastrophic combination of factors?Investigators were mulling several theories as to why the plane carrying ...
An investigation into what happened to Air France Flight 447 likely will be lengthy and complicated, beginning with the difficult search to find the aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean and retrieve its voice and data recorders.. The wide-body Airbus A330-200 carrying 228 ...
South America's Scary Air: Brazilian Collision, Argentine Radar Troubles Raise QuestionsFlying through South America's busiest airports has become frightening and time-consuming for passengers and pilots alike as a surge in travelers overwhelms underfunded air traffic control systems.The Argentine capital ...