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WORLD: Nigerian man tries to blow up a US bound flight; London police hunt airline terror link
Detroit, USA On Christmas day, a 23-year old Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, allegedly ignited a small explosive device Friday shortly before a Northwest flight NW 253 from Amsterdam, Netherlands, landed in Detroit. Fortunately, the explosive went bad and resulted in second- and third-degree burns on his thighs.
The suspect later told the US authorities he had had explosive powder taped to his leg and used a syringe of chemicals to mix with the powder that was to cause...
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WORLD: Heated discussion over Airline policy leads Northwest Airlines pilots to fly 150 miles off course
USA Updated - It wasn't the argument but laptop usage in the cockpit that distracted the pilots. Check the mizozo for details.
Updated 2 - The licences of both the pilots has been revoked. Check the mizozo for details.
Heated arguments can make you miss an exit, a pickup or a turn while driving, but missing an airport while flying is a little new.
Northwest Airlines flight 188 flew 150 miles off course when the crew got into a heated argument over airline policy. The flight was carrying...
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WORLD: Licences of both the pilots has been revoked
USA Licences of both the pilots — Timothy Cheney of Gig Harbor, Wash., the captain, and Richard Cole of Salem, Ore., the first office, have been revoked. Earlier, the pilots had told the investigatora that they were working on their personal laptop computers and lost track of time and place.
The pilots, who were out of communications with air traffic controllers for 91 minutes, violated numerous federal safety regulations in the incident last Wednesday night, the FAA said in a...
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WORLD: Update: Northwest Airlines pilots were using their laptops when they went off course
USA Northwest Airlines pilots were discussing the new computerized crew-scheduling system that the airline was introducing when they lost time during the flight when they went off-course.
Both the pilots had plenty of experience - Capt. Timothy B. Cheney, 53, of Gig Harbor, Wash., was hired in 1985 and had 20,000 hours of experience, about half of it in A-320s, the kind of plane the crew was flying last Wednesday, between San Diego and Minneapolis. First Officer Richard I. Cole, 54, of Salem,...
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