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Texting contributed to fatal crash of medical helicopter, NTSB says
The pilot of a medical helicopter that crashed in Missouri in 2011 had been texting, and that was a contributing factor to the disaster that killed four people, federal investigators said. The case is the first fatal commercial aircraft accident...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Manufacturing and Engineering, Air Methods Corporation, Heavy Engineering
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LAX officials investigate hacking of flight status boards
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.Operations personnel at Los Angeles International Airport late Monday were reviewing their computer systems to determine how multiple flight status boards were hacked to show an emergency message, authorities told The Times. [Updated, 2:10 a.m. PDT...Tags: Michael Jackson, AEG, Transportation Accidents, Los Angeles International Airport
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Oops: LAX status signs accidentally declare emergency
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Officials say a contractor at Los Angeles International Airport accidentally made flight-status signs read "Emergency Leave the Terminal." Airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said in a statement that shortly before 10 p.m. Monday...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Los Angeles International Airport
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COLUMN: Mickelson left powerful, positive legacy
It’s hard to believe that it was 20 years ago that South Dakota lost its governor in a tragic plane crash in Iowa. George Mickelson was in his second term as governor of South Dakota in April 1993, when the plane he and seven others were...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Government, Politics, Regional Authority, Executive Branch
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One Taken By Life Star After 3-Car Accident In Vernon
The Hartford CourantA Life Star helicopter has taken one person to the hospital Sunday afternoon following a three-car accident on Talcottville Road, police said. Police said one was taken to Hartford Hospital by Life Star and one other was taken by ambulance to the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Transportation Accidents, Hartford Hospital, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Climate change may boost turbulence
In the future, white-knuckle fliers may be able to blame those brutally bumpy flights over the Atlantic on greenhouse gases. Turbulence will be stronger and occur more often if carbon dioxide emissions double by 2050, heating up the atmosphere,...Tags: Global Change, Transportation Accidents, Ecosystems, Conservation, Science and Technology
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UPDATE: Nebraska coupled killed in small plane crash in Williamsburg, Virginia
Virginia State Police have released the names of a Nebraska couple killed in a plane crash near Williamsburg. Spokeswoman Corinne Geller says 54-year-old pilot Joseph D. Brown IV and his wife, 52-year-old Susan D. Brown, died when a single-engine Cessna...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), James City County, Accidental Death
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Federal Aviation Authority releases South Bend plane crash audio
"We have an emergency. Dead Stick. No Power." For the first time we hear those words from the pilot of the Hawker Beechcraft Premier jet that crashed into a South Bend neighborhood on March 17. The FAA just released the air traffic conversation...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Air Transportation Industry, Federal Aviation Administration
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Daugaard declares day of remembrance for Mickelson
PIERRE, S.D. — Governor Dennis Daugaard has declared Friday "A Day of Remembrance" to honor Governor George Mickelson and seven others who died in a plane crash 20 years ago. The eight men were returning from Cincinnati at the time of the crash....Tags: Dennis Daugaard, Transportation Accidents, Government, Politics, Executive Branch
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Mickelson laid cornerstone for economic development
To understand how much George Speaker Mickelson meant to South Dakota requires an appreciation of how tough times were in the mid-1980s as he campaigned for governor. Hundreds of agricultural producers lost their operations. Farms dropped from about 41,...Tags: Republican Party, Government, U.S. Congress, Politics, Executive Branch
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Climate change will make flights bumpier, study says
In the future, white-knuckle fliers may be able to blame those brutally bumpy flights over the Atlantic Ocean on greenhouse gases. Turbulence will be stronger and occur more often if carbon dioxide emissions double by 2050, heating up the atmosphere,...Tags: Global Change, Atlantic Ocean, Transportation Accidents, Ecosystems, Air Transportation Industry
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NTSB Recovers Helo-1 Data Recorder after Deadly Crash
Channel 2 NewsThe deadly Helo-1 crash remains under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and investigators have recovered a flight image data recorder from the wreckage. The Alaska State Troopers helicopter crash took the lives of three people,...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents, National Transportation Safety Board, Transportation Industry
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