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BREAKING NEWS: Polish President And Wife Among '87 Confirmed Dead' In Air Crash

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 10 Apr 10

Official news has it that, Polish president Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria have been killed after their plane a Tupolev Tu-154 with 132 passengers crashed on approach to Smolensk airport in western Russia. The president and...

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Air Safety

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 4 Mar 10

An air traffic controller in John F Kennedy is being reprimanded with a possible sacking for letting his 9-year-old son direct planes at JFK - and repeating the stunt with the boy's twin sister the next day. But I just don't...

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What Air Safety?

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 3 Dec 09

I wonder if you will be traveling with this particular airline that is operating in Indonesia, but I just wouldn't especially after this shocking news article. It was reported that the aircraft was taxiing into position to...

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Air Safety - Air India

benhilo @benhilo (871) • Tripoli, Libya 6 Oct 09

Air India says mid-air scuffle no threat to safety. According to the article, two pilots and two crew members were grounded due to a scuffle in-fight. Punches were thrown whereby the event spilled over into the passenger cabin....

Just When Are The Authorities Going To Wake Up And End This?

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 15 Sep 09

Another plane has crash landed, due to a landing gear failure? Hydraulics or Erroneous Cross Wiring? Isn't this being addressed and not allowed to see another day? Fortunately, there wasn't any fatality this time, but I have...

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Air Disasters Waiting To Happen

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 19 Jul 09

I just expected it as I read this article on the Daily Mail today and I just cannot help to conclude that we just cannot allow the airlines at their own whims and fancies to do their aircraft maintenance. The very fact that...

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Another Air Disaster!

skysuccess @skysuccess (8857) • Singapore 15 Jul 09

If this is not going to wake up the airline companies and aircraft manufacturers then I see a very bleak future in the industry's air safety. I do not know about you, but for an aircraft to break up in mid air and burst into...

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