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NTSB investigators recommended Thursday that long-distance passenger planes carry improved technology to allow them to be found more easily in a crash, as well as include enhanced cockpit recording technology. (Jan. 22)
Responding to recent incidents in which airliners vanished, U.S. accident investigators recommended Thursday that all passenger planes making long flights over water carry improved technology that will allow them to be found more readily...
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Georgia says Russian aircraft violated airspace and fired missile, Russia denies
1. Wide of experts working at place where purported missile landed
2. Various of experts looking at crater
3. Various of purported missile fragments
4. Officials at site
5. Various of experts by crater
6. Set up shot of Georgian police...
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SYND 25/03/1969 PILOTS ON THE BI AFRA AIRLIFT ARE QUITTING BECAUSE OF ATTACKS BY FEDERAL JET FIGHTERS
Norwegian pilots who are helpiung with the airlift of food and aid to Biafran people are now stopping their work because of the threat of attacks from Nigerian jets.
1. MS of an aircraft taxiing in
2. MS of the interview with two...
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SUDAN: FAMINE CONDITIONS WORSENED BY UPSURGE IN FIGHTING
English/Nat
An upsurge in fighting in southern Sudan is worsening the already horrific famine-like conditions.
Tens of thousands of people are reported to have lost their homes by the latest clashes and the death toll is rising...
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Airlines are ditching their old planes and buying new jets at an unprecedented clip, ordering more than 8,200 planes from Airbus Group NV and Boeing Co. in the past five years. Passengers will notice new perks and comforts. (Jan. 9)
(Nats)
SOUNDBITE Alice Liu, Managing Director, Onboard products, American Airlines:
"We believe in investing in our product and investing in our customers of what they value."
SOUNDBITE Alice Liu, Managing Director, Onboard products,...
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Flightline 106b - Globemaster
Synopsis
It's the first of its kind - a heavy cargo plane with unlimited range, capable of landing nearly anywhere in the world. The C-17 Globemaster III, designed by McDonnell Douglas, outcarries even the largest cargo planes in the...
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Croatia - NATO Raid On Croatian Airfield
NATO launched an unprecedented mission involving about 50 aircraft
against a rebel Serb-held airfield in Croatia on Monday but said
it had avoided hitting Serb planes on the ground and had probably
not crippled the base for long....
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The pilots of the Spanair passenger jet that crashed last month in Madrid failed to extend wing flaps that are needed to give the aircraft enough lift for takeoff, according to a person familiar with the investigation. 154 people died in the crash
HEADLINE: Source: Madrid crash probe focuses on wing flaps
CAPTION: The pilots of the Spanair passenger jet that crashed last month in Madrid failed to extend wing flaps that are needed to give the aircraft enough lift for takeoff,...
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Taliban ambassador media conference
1. Set-up of Taliban ambassador
2. Various cutaways of journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Translator for Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan
"After the terrorist attack of the United States of America on...
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Antwerp, Fleet
Victory In Antwerp Harbour
Royal British Marine Commandos and the Canadian First Army launch an all-out amphibious attack on Nazi positions in the approaches to Antwerp's gigantic harbour. They capture Walcheren Island, Flushing and...
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WWII, Aircraft
The Collapse Of France
The Nazis march into Paris, which is declared an open city, and easily take the much-vaunted Maginot Line. The Petain government asks for peace, and Britain is left to fight alone.
(World War II, WWII)
Big Plane...
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Deadline to establish a "unity government" expires
1. Various supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya protesting outside Congress
2. Protesters carrying banner reading (Spanish) "Restitution now or never"
3. Various of riot police outside Congress
4. Various of protesters...
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The nation's top transportation official is promising tough enforcement of a new rule limiting to three hours the amount of time airlines can keep passengers waiting in planes on tarmacs. The three-hour rule goes into effect on Thursday.
HEADLINE: New airline passenger protection takes effect
CAPTION: The nation's top transportation official is promising tough enforcement of a new rule limiting to three hours the amount of time airlines can keep passengers waiting in...
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SYND 10-4-73 INTVIEW WITH ISRAELS MINISTER OF TRANSPORT PERES ON HI-JACK SECURITY
Shimon Peres, Transport Minister of Israel speaks to the press about surity measures in the light of Palestinian hijackings
1. ms Peres SOUNDBITE The events in Cyrpus should be judged in two ways. The attention of the murderers which was...
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USA: US POLICY TOWARDS IRAQ (2)
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U-S policy toward Iraq's challenge of the American-enforced no-fly zone is drawing fire on Capitol Hill, even as Iraq's cat-and-mouse game against U-S fighters on Thursday continues in the skies over Iraq.
And there are...
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Chavez: increased oil shipments to China doen's mean cut in sales to US
1. Wide shot Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waling into press conference room
2. Close-up reporters
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President:
"I have promised President Hu Jintao that after the current daily supply of...