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FAA gives Boeing permission to relocate newly painted Dreamliner
1. Boeing 787 landing at Paine Field
2. Boeing 787 taxiing past parked aircraft
A Boeing 787 landed routinely at an airport in Washington on Thursday after it was cleared for a one-off flight by the Federal Aviation Administration...
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FAA orders inspection of Boeing jets for faulty fuel pumps
1. Wide shot exterior of Boeing plant
2. Various inside plant of Boeing 747 commercial aircraft being assembled
3. Boeing 737 in flight
4. Boeing 747 taking off
5. Boeing 747 in flight
6. Boeing 757 in flight
The US government ordered...
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Judge recesses Moussaoui trial
1. Car with Zacarias Moussaoui arriving at courthouse
2. Wide exterior of courthouse
A federal judge unexpectedly recessed the trial of confessed al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Monday to consider whether government violations...
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Low-flying aircraft causes scare
1. Various views of plane flying among buildings of lower Manhattan
** MANDATORY COURTESY: Kevin John Allen **
A low-flying passenger plane sparked frantic phone calls to authorities in New York City on Wednesday.
The Continental...
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USA: OLYMPIC TORCH BEGINS JOURNEY THROUGH WASHINGTON
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The Olympic torch has begun its journey through the US capital with thousands of onlookers lining the streets to catch a glimpse.
The tour through Washington DC is part of the flame's 15-thousand mile (24-thousand kilometre)...
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A pilot's proficiency check went tragically wrong Tuesday, killing one Federal Aviation Administration employee and critically injuring another when their helicopter crashed into a Mississippi duplex
HEADLINE: Raw video: Copter crash kills FAA employee
CAPTION: A pilot's proficiency check went tragically wrong Tuesday, killing one Federal Aviation Administration employee and critically injuring another when their helicopter crashed...
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President Barack Obama spent Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and visiting both the department of transportation and interior.
HEADLINE: Obama meets with Brown, visits agencies
CAPTION: President Barack Obama spent Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and visiting both the department of transportation and interior. The AP's Julie Pace wraps up...
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GUAM: COMPUTER ERROR MAY HAVE CAUSED KOREAN AIRLINES 747 CRASH
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Investigators in Guam think that they may have uncovered one of the causes of last week's Korean Air jet crash, which killed 225 people.
They say that a software error may have hobbled a radar system which should have ...
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Boeing 787 battery shows evidence of short-circuiting, investigators say
1. Wide shot of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Deborah Hersman, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman:
"The expectation in Aviation is to never experience a fire onboard an...
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The head of the Federal Aviation Administration met with the President of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association to discuss ways to reduce controller fatigue after multiple reports of dozing on the job.
HEADLINE (48 characters): FAA, air traffic union discuss dozing controllers
CAPTION: (255 characters): The head of the Federal Aviation Administration met with the President of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association to...
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USA - Disabled Pilots
(dur: 6 min 44 sec/ english sot 1 min 43 sec)
For most people, flying for fun is an expensive hobby. Very few
consider taking up a career as a pilot. For disabled people,
however, the barriers are even higher. Many countries have...
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Unheard of just a couple of years ago, government-sponsored bike sharing programs are rapidly rolling across many American cities. Users typically pick up a bike and one location and drop it off at another, where it's ready for the next rider.
HEADLINE: Bike sharing rapidly expanding across U.S.
CAPTION: Unheard of just a couple of years ago, government-sponsored bike sharing programs are rapidly rolling across many American cities. Users typically pick up a bike and one...
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The Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday its second effort in three years to stop its managers in Texas from covering up air safety violations. The annoucement comes after a new investigation found the misconduct continued into last year.
HEADLINE: FAA tries to fix cover-up of air safety errors
CAPTION: The Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday its second effort in three years to stop its managers in Texas from covering up air safety violations. The...
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The FAA is creating a new air traffic system that officials say will be as revolutionary for civil aviation as was the advent of radar decades ago. But the program is at a crossroads.
HEADLINE: New air traffic control system at crossroads
CAPTION: The FAA is creating a new air traffic system that officials say will be as revolutionary for civil aviation as was the advent of radar decades ago. But the program is at a...
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Half of Railroads May Not Make Safety Deadline
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The CEO of Amtrak warned of "significant cancellations" to "necessary transportation" if some railroads are not given a time extension to implement...
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19 Americans and 24 others to be tried in case that is straining ties with US
1. Wide of junction in central Cairo
2. Close-up of sign on wall for office of the Arab Centre for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP)
3. Nasser Amin, director general of ACIJLP, arriving at his office,...
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USA: SWISSAIR PRESIDENT JEFFREY KATZ PRESS CONFERENCE
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CEO and President of Swissair, Jeffrey Katz, says the Swissair MD-11 which crashed off the Canadian coast had a clean bill of health.
He says the plane had recently undergone maintenance inspections and was completely...
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Aviation safety expert comments after FAA extends ban on US flights into Ben Gurion
The Federal Aviation Administration extended its ban on US airline flights to Tel Aviv on Wednesday while assessing the danger of rocket attacks.
Former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Vice Chairman Robert Francis told the...
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USA: NEW INITIATIVE ON WIRING SYSTEMS AFTER RECENT AIRCRAFT CRASHES
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It emerged on Thursday that a type of thermal and sound insulation that played a role in fires on at least four other jetliners was used on Swissair Flight 111.
Although approved by the U-S Federal Aviation Administration...
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A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion destroyed TWA Flight 800.
HEADLINE: FAA orders new devices to prevent crashes like TWA 800
CAPTION: A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years...
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A former chief trial lawyer for the Federal Aviation Administration and a licensed commercial pilot says having only one person in the control tower at Washington's Reagan airport was a lapse, but passengers were not in danger.
HEADLINE: First Person: Unmanned tower needed 2 people
CAPTION: A former chief trial lawyer for the Federal Aviation Administration and a licensed commercial pilot says having only one person in the control tower at Washington's Reagan...
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+4:3 FAA loses track of 119,000 aircraft
Fairfield, New Jersey - 8 Dec, 2010
1. Plane taking off from Essex County Airport
Miami, Florida - 8 Dec, 2010
2. Private plane taxiing at Opa Locka airport
Washington DC - 8 Dec, 2010
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Carr, National...
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US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joins advocates in urging the public to always be aware of their children inside the family car as temperatures rise this summer. (July 24)
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US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined advocates to urge parents and the public to be aware of a growing avoidable tragedy caused by heat stroke in cars.
Foxx is joining in a new...
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USA: FAA TEST COMPUTER SYSTEMS AHEAD OF Y2K
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The Federal Aviation Administration turned the clocks ahead to January 1, 2000 on Sunday in a crucial test of its computer systems.
The agency was testing how the air traffic control systems will function at the start of...