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Showing posts with label Journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Journalism. Show all posts
Monday, March 21, 2016

More Than Meets The Eye in Kenya Plane Spotter Arrests

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Men from Manchester held by Kenya photo courtesy of The Star There's something very strange about the news out of Nairobi in which ...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Quest For More From CNN From MH-370

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Full disclosure: The Crash Detectives , my own book on the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370, will be published by Penguin in ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Note to Allegiant: Emergency Landings Are Not the Problem

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Recently a friend asked me what airlines were the safest to fly. I get asked that question all the time. I find the question challenging ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Aviation Year in Review Has a Star Wars Sci-Fi Feel

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Harrison Ford and cast Disney handout photo  Star Wars dominated the end-of-the-year entertainment news. Harrison Ford, the ageless supe...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Happy Birthday from Syria and Other Places in a Troubled World

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One of my Facebook messages today Not long after my eyes opened this morning I enjoyed reading some of the early birthday greetings pos...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Science Shows Metrojet Crash Triggered by a Bomb

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The blast that took down a Russian Airbus A321 over the Sinai last month, had to be triggered by a bomb, an experienced explosives expert ...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

A Soprano-Like Shakedown Squeezes Smisek out of United

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Jeff Smisek in happier days United's boss Jeff Smisek resigned from the airline today, as a probe continues into whether he and othe...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Pilot Punches Holes in Post on 747 Hail Damage

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N671US in Shannon Photo courtesy Kevin Corry The Boeing 747 taken out of the desert in Arizona to replace the Delta jumbo jet pelt...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Lost and Confounded Until Hiker Finds Missing Plane

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What forces of fate allow thousands of people to cross the same terrain without seeing the crashed airplane that John Weisheit discovered ...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Germanwings "No Right to Rule Out Other Hypotheses"

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BEA's chief Remi Jouty As if awaking from a stunned stupor, (incapacitation with breathing perhaps?) the Bureau d'Enquêtes et d...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Attending the Flight School of Andreas Lubitz

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Astute readers of Flying Lessons may remember that in the fall of 2010, I published here a series of posts about the week I spent as a st...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

You Call this an Investigation? Germanwings So Far Anything But Conclusive

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The news coming from French prosecutor Brice Robin regarding Monday's crash of Germanwings Flight 9295 is shocking, but on what is i...
Monday, March 9, 2015

MH 370 Report on Night of Errors Raises Questions About Competence

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The story making headlines on the anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 is the news that the battery for the locator be...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Ocean Search for MH 370 Lets Malaysia Overlook Clues on the Ground

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9M-MRO in Los Angeles photo by Jay Davis The adage that if you repeat a lie often enough people will start to believe it, can be appropr...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Global Girl & Girlfriend of Sex Offender Epstein Same Person Flight School Says

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The Facebook page of Global Girl See previous post on this subject here . The owner of the flight school where popular online aviatrix...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Did Popular Aviatrix Right-Seat for Epstein in Royal Sex Scandal?

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See updated post on this subject here . Nadia Marcinko, a popular figure in the online community of pilots and a role model for women in...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Reversal of Bad Fortune for Lawyer in Malaysia 370 Claim

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The lawsuit filed by the husband of a woman who disappeared on Malaysian Airlines 370, may be headed back to court. An appeals court in Il...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Agonizing and Awe-Inspiring; Another Year in Aviation Flies By

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Bookending the aviation news for the year 2014 is the Dreamliner battery; the sizzling lithium ion-flavored power source that  I suggested...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Indonesia's Troubled Aviation Safety Past

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At the Adam Air crash scene. US Navy photo If the wreckage of missing Asia Air Flight 8501 is found at the bottom of the sea, as Ind...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Air Asia Mystery, the Benefit of Seeing This Before

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The Air Asia communication executives sat at a round table with chaos all around, trying to concentrate on banging out a press release, tw...