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At least 3 pets were aboard a plane that skidded into a river. Now they’re presumed dead.

Deanna Paul Marisa Iati Ian Shapira May 5 at 6:00 PM Navy divers on Sunday began recovering numerous containers holding the corpses of cats and dogs that drowned in the forward cargo area of the Miami Air International charter flight … Continue reading

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The Tesla Autopilot Model Of Autonomous Flight

The cockpit of a Boeing 737 commercial jet. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg © 2017 Bloomberg Finance LP Retired fighter pilot Paco Chierici has flown F-14s and F-5s for the US Navy, Boeing 737s, 757s, 767s, and the Airbus 330 for Delta … Continue reading

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Deadly plane emergency landing today: 41 killed when Sukhoi SSJ100 operated by Aeroflot lands in Russia

Moscow — Russia’s transportation minister said Monday 41 bodies have been recovered from the burned wreckage of an Aeroflot plane at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Yevgeny Dietrich also told reporters six of the people who survived the disaster Sunday night have … Continue reading

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Boeing SC lets mechanics inspect their own work, leading to repeated mistakes, workers say

A Boeing Co. program that speeds production by letting mechanics inspect their own work is leading to repeated mistakes on the 787 Dreamliner production line in North Charleston, workers say, at a time when the airplane maker is facing worldwide … Continue reading

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Russian plane fire: Investigators recover flight recorders

Russia’s main investigative body on Monday said both flight recorders had been recovered from the Sukhoi passenger plane that caught fire while making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. At least 41 people, including two children, lost their lives. The Sukhoi SSJ100 … Continue reading

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Boeing Board’s Lack of Expertise Under Scrutiny in 737 MAX Safety Oversight

By Chloe Aiello Boeing’s board of directors is increasingly under scrutiny as more details come to light about what went wrong aboard two doomed 737 Max planes. And if the board failed to ask enough tough questions about safety features … Continue reading

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Boeing’s 737 Max Defense Is a Textbook Mess

For decades, business schools have taught Johnson Johnson’s handling of its 1982 Tylenol scandal as a textbook example of good crisis management. In the future, we can expect Boeing Co.’s treatment of its two 737 Max crashes to join the syllabus – … Continue reading

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