October 26, 2011
Passengers board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by All Nippon Airways at Narita Airport, Japan prior to its flight to Hong Kong. Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner made its first commercial flight on Wednesday, giving a handful of deep-pocketed passengers the chance to fly into history on what is touted as an aviation breakthrough. Carrying 252 [...]
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August 2, 2011
The US FBI is looking at a new lead in a 1970s robbery where a hijacker parachuted out of a plane at night with $200,000 in cash and was never seen again. The FBI is investigating a lead in an unsolved 1970s skyjacking where the hijacker escaped by parachuting out of a plane at night [...]
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June 26, 2011
A Vietnam Airlines flight leaving Ho Chi Minh City for Hanoi was delayed for more than three hours after a passenger joked about a bomb shortly before takeoff on Thursday evening. Le Anh Tuan, 27, reportedly pointed at his girlfriend and said, “There is a bomb on her body!” to a ground service officer [...]
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June 21, 2011
A passenger plane slammed into the ground and caught fire while trying to land on a foggy night in northwestern Russia, killing at least 44 people on board, authorities said on Tuesday. The Tupolev-134, with 43 passengers and nine crew, crashed on a road 700 meters (2,300 feet) short of the runway at the [...]
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June 4, 2011
A drunken Australian passenger was fined VND5 million (US$243) for disrupting a Vietnam Airlines flight on Wednesday, the national carrier said. During the flight from Australia to Vietnam, Barnes Graeme screamed and hit a stewart, according to Vietnam Airlines. Earlier, Graeme, 53, complained to the crewmembers he had a toothache and asked for a [...]
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May 22, 2011
Le Minh Khuong is the coach of the national taekwondo team. Vietnam’s national taekwondo team coach Le Minh Khuong says he will protest a decision by the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) to fine him for disrupting a Vietnam Airlines flight last month. Le Minh Khuong, 50, refused to sign the finding of CAAV’s [...]
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February 6, 2010
An exhibition about the first locally-manufactured aircrafts opened at the Museum for Air Defense and the Air Force on February 2 but are they the first made-in-Vietnam planes? VietNamNet finds out. The two farmers and their “helicopter”. In 1999 rice grower Le Van Danh and a rubber farmer Tran Quoc Hai, who ran a shop [...]
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December 30, 2009
Yemen had arrested 29 suspected al-Qaeda members and will continue to hunt down other members of the terror network, government officials said Monday. This picture shows Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the runway after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. A passenger aboard the plane set off firecrackers Friday, [...]
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December 26, 2009
A man suspected of extremist affiliation ignited Friday a small explosive device on a Northwest Airlines flight bound to Detroit This picture shows Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the runway after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009. A passenger aboard the plane set off firecrackers Friday, causing a commotion [...]
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December 25, 2009
An ATR 72 of Vietnam Airlines had to make an emergency landing at Tolmachevo Airport in the Russian city of Novosibirsk on Wednesday, . . . Photo: TTThe captain had to return the ATR 72 MTI 208 to the airport for an emergency landing about 20 minutes of flying after the crew members discovered oil [...]
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