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Tokyo

Tokyo airline stuck, waits for a taxi

By radioaustralia.net.au

A Japan Airlines passenger plane from Malaysia became stuck on the runway shortly after landing at Tokyo's main airport.

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Airbus

QF72 incident may lead to the grounding of Airbus A330-300 models

By Unal Basusta, eTN

In the October 7 incident, on Qantas flight QF72 from Singapore to Perth, passengers were hurled around the cabin after the Airbus A330 aircraft dropped with two plunges of 20 and 16 seconds 200 and 6

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Nepal

18 people, mostly foreign tourists, killed in plane crash in Nepal

By voanews.com

Airport officials in Nepal say the small private Twin Otter airplane was on a short half-hour flight Wednesday morning from the capital Kathmandu to Lukla town in eastern Nepal when it crashed while t

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Heavy Metal Rescue

Iron Maiden singer helps stranded tourists get home

By mtv.co.uk

Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson has come to the rescue of stranded holidaymakers following the collapse of holiday company XL.

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Australia

Airline to name plane Princess Mary

By theaustralian.news.com.au

A recent visit by Crown Princess Mary of Denmark to her home country of Australia created such a flurry of excitement, even a local airline was starstruck.

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Spanair Crash

Airline defends Madrid take-off amid relatives' anger

By timesonline.co.uk

The budget airline Spanair has defended its decision to clear a passenger jet for take-off despite aborting an earlier attempt because of a technical problem.

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Qantas jet makes emergency landing in Sydney

Qantas: Third high-profile emergency landing in eight days

By news.yahoo.com

SYDNEY, Australia - Australia's aviation agency launched a review of Qantas Airways' safety standards Sunday after a Manila-bound jetliner spraying hydraulic fuel made the airline's third high-profile

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Globespan Airways Fined

Airline fined £5,000 for flying faulty plane

By guardian.co.uk

A budget airline allowed a faulty jet to complete a 6,000-mile round trip from New York to Liverpool and back across the Atlantic despite knowing there was a problem with its engine monitors after it

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Qantas

Qantas says jet with hole can be repaired

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press Writer

CANBERRA, Australia — Australian airline Qantas will preserve its track record of never losing a jet plane in an accident by repairing a gaping hole in the side of a jetliner caused by an exploding

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Cambodian Airline Promises To Pay For 'Abandoned' Boeing 727

Oops where did I leave my 727?

VIETNAM - The owners of a Boeing 727 apparently abandoned at Viet Nam's Noi Bai International Airport since May last year have reportedly undertaken to take the plane back and pay overdue fees.

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Honduras Crash

TACA passenger jet crashes in Honduras, 4 killed

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A jetliner overshot a runway and raced onto a busy street in the Honduran capital on Friday, killing the pilot, two passengers and a motorist on the ground. At least 65 people were injured.

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Sharm El-Sheik

385 British tourists stranded for 48 hours in Egypt, refused to board repaired plane

Cairo, Egypt - Chief of Egypt's Sharm El-Sheik airport says that 358 British tourists have been stranded there for almost 48 hours after refusing to board a Monarch Airlines plane for their flight home even though the craft, which had a "technical problem" was later repaired.

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No Injuries

Indonesian plane skids off Batam runway

JAKARTA, March 10 (Reuters) - An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 174 people skidded off the runway in heavy rain while landing at Batam airport, an airline spokesman said on Monday.

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Venezuela Plane Crash

Plane believed crashed in Venezuela

CARACAS - A Venezuelan passenger plane with 46 people aboard went missing and likely crashed in a remote mountain region soon after taking off from an Andean city just before dusk on Thursday, authorities said.

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