Sad News: Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashes into suburban Buffalo NY; 50 dead

Yesterday night around 10:20 pm a Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air, lost altitude while landing into Buffalo NY and crashed into a house outside Buffalo. The crash caused a huge fire, causing 50 deaths (including all passengers & crew on-board and 1 person in the house).
This is the first fatal incidence [...]

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Videos: US Airways flight 1549’s crash landing videos

Following are the CCTV videos for the flight number 1549’s crash landing that have been released to public -

This is an interesting video with simulations and edits from other videos -

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US Airways flight 1549 crash lands in Hudson River

Flight number 1549 that was scheduled to fly from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte’s Charlotte-Douglas Airport at 3:20pm, had to crash land into the Hudson river after both its engines failed due to a run in with a flock of geese. There were around 150 people on flight. According to reports, the pilot maneuvered [...]

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Hurray: JetBlue gets its new terminal

Today, JetBlue welcomed its new home at New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport. The airline moved from the old Terminal 6 to the new $743 million Terminal ($663 of which is covered by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey), Terminal 5.  The first flight into the terminal arrived at 5:05 am [...]

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Good News everyone: Now it is easier to charge your phones at Newark Airport

Samsung has installed 50 free charging stations at Newark Liberty International Airport in Terminals A, B and C.
The station has 4 outlets that allows to charge 4 devices simultaneously. Though the charging station is small for charging big laptops, though will be useful for cellphones and small notebooks.
Will definitely be very useful if you are [...]

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Delta Flight leaves passengers stuck on the tarmac for 5 or 7 hours

Depends on the airline or passenger version, according to which the 184 passengers aboard a Las Vegas bound Delta Airlines Flight 621 (JFK-LAS) airplane waited 5 hours or 7 hours on the tarmac before it was ultimately canceled due to bad weather New York’s JFK Airport.
Delta Air Lines Inc. spokeswoman Betsy Talton’s statement from Chicago [...]

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Deja vu: Second near miss at New York’s JFK Airport

Couple of weeks back on July 5th 2008, it was Cayman Air’s Boeing 737 and LAN Chile’s Boeing 767. Last week it was like “Déjà vu” – On Friday July 11th 2008, after an aborted landing on another runway, Delta Airlines’ flight 123 (Boeing 767 flying from Shannon Ireland) crossed flight path of a Comair’s [...]

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Near Collison over New York’s JFK Airport?

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that it is investigating a near collision that happened over the weekend over New York’s JFK Airport between a Cayman Airways Flight 792 (Boeing 737) and a Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile (LAN-Chile) Flight 533 (Boeing 767) that came within 100 feet vertically of each other.
From NTSB website [...]

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Brtish Airways buys French all-business carrier Airline L’Avion

British Airways seem to be heading the all-business US – EU(or Europe) route. As a strategic deal that will bolster their OpenSkies subsidiary, it bought the two plane French Airline L’Avion that flies between Pairs (Orly) and New York (Newark) for £54m (or $107.6 million).
Facts about L’Avion -

Founded by – 31 year old French [...]

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British Airways Launched Open Skies Airlines

British Airways is launching a subsidiary called “Open Skies Airline” that will be a transatlantic luxury-service airline. The airline is taking advantage of the transatlantic “open skies” agreement(or EU-US Open Skies Agreement between European Union and United States.
The first flight starts today, Thursday June 19th 2008 from Paris’ Orly airport to New York’s JFK [...]

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