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RE: Lax Evacuated - Breaking News

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PITingres" class="quote" target="_blank">PITingres</a> (<a href="#51" class="quote">Reply 51</a>):<br/><i>Quoting prosa (Reply 29): outside the ...

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RE: Lax Evacuated - Breaking News

At the risk of sounding morbid, outside the security at a large busy airport is probably one of the best (so to speak) locations for a mass shooter seeking the maximum number of victims. Few if any other public places have such dense concentrations of people. I don't see any easy solutions.

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RE: Jennifer Aniston Wants New Personal Private Runway

I would say it is about as accurate as the Jennifer Aniston-is-preggo stories that have been tabloid fodder for years.

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RE: Small Fire @ JFK T3 (Old DL)

The report of an "all hands fire" may sound dramatic, but it's actually just the FDNY's term for a standard, first-alarm response to a structure fire.

[Edited 2013-10-28 16:11:30]

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RE: Man Tries To Check Bag Full Of Weapons At JFK

One of the firearms had defaced serial numbers, which is a federal crime.

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RE: Spirit Airlines Flight Attendant Sales Quotas?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/OB1504" class="quote" target="_blank">OB1504</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>I think Spirit offers 5,000 FREE SPIRIT mile...

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RE: Spirit Airlines Flight Attendant Sales Quotas?

Thanks for the responses.

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Spirit Airlines Flight Attendant Sales Quotas?

I just returned from a short trip <acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym>-<acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL / KFLL), USA - Florida">FLL</acronym>-<acronym title="New York - La Guardia (LGA / KLGA), USA - New York">LGA</acronym> o...

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RE: 9 Yr Old Clears TSA & Flies MSP-LAS W/o A Ticket

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DTWPurserBoy" class="quote" target="_blank">DTWPurserBoy</a> (<a href="#50" class="quote">Reply 50</a>):<br/><i>Quoting MountainFlyer (Reply 49)...

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RE: Accelerated Retirements Of Modern A/c Types

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Ozair" class="quote" target="_blank">Ozair</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>Without taking this to far off topic it is int...

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RE: Language Swiss, Belgian Etc Crew Use Onboard?

What about flights in China? Some of the versions of Chinese are barely intelligible to speakers of other versions. Is Mandarin used as the default language?

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Machine Gun Found At JFK (but No Reason To Panic)

An electrician doing work at <acronym title="New York - John F. Kennedy International (Idlewild) (JFK / KJFK), USA - New York">JFK</acronym>'s Terminal 1 found a <acronym title="Macon - Herbert Smart Downtown (MAC), USA - Georgia">MAC</acronym>-11 machine pistol in a maintenance closet. It sounds sc...

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RE: DOT Awards 25 Small Community Air Service Grants

<i>Bismarck, North Dakota</i> If there's one state that has no need whatsoever for federal assistance, it's North Dakota. Also known as the state in which the starting pay at Wal-Mart is $17 per hour yet most of the stores are severely understaffed. <i>4 awards provide marketing support for newly an...

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RE: Emergency Rations On Intercontinental Flights

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/frunzaverde" class="quote" target="_blank">frunzaverde</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>If entering Russia further East, Nor...

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RE: Would DAL Still Be Around Without Southwest?

MDW's ability to survive without airline traffic is a tough question to answer. It probably would not have attracted anywhere near as much <acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA</acronym> activity as <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym>, but it might have been a...

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RE: De-Hubbed Airports

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/itrade" class="quote" target="_blank">itrade</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>After the pulldowns in <acronym title="Memph...

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RE: Why No Airline Accuracy In Movies?

Movie/TV/video game/etc. aircraft-related mistakes and themes:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JustPlaneWrong

[Edited 2013-09-08 17:20:55]

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RE: Why No Airline Accuracy In Movies?

Probably the most extreme example of getting it <i>right</i> was the B-52 cockpit in <i>Dr. Strangelove</i>. As the actual cockpit interior was classified at the time, the set designers and aviation consultants spent many weeks trying to come up with a reasonable guess, by taking the cockpits of oth...

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RE: Insane Fare Difference: MEX-DFW/IAH

IAH is closer to being a fortress hub, maybe?

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RE: Who Started MIA-LHR Non Stop First?

It wasn't always a pleasant flight: <i>Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC Didn't get to bed last night On the way the paper bag was on my knee Man, I had a dreadful flight </i> <img src="http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/graphics/smilies/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" border="0"/>

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RE: US Removes Passenger Over Service Dog

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mesaflyguy" class="quote" target="_blank">mesaflyguy</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>The man definitely could have handled ...

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RE: BGM Falls Behind ELM And ITH

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Burj" class="quote" target="_blank">Burj</a> (<a href="#25" class="quote">Reply 25</a>):<br/><i> One nice thing is that there is a large outlet ...

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RE: BGM Falls Behind ELM And ITH

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Burj" class="quote" target="_blank">Burj</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i>And, once work starts to replace said [Tappan Ze...

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RE: What Scheduled Route Was Terminated The Fastest?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/kgaiflyer" class="quote" target="_blank">kgaiflyer</a> (<a href="#77" class="quote">Reply 77</a>):<br/><i>I remember that flight [NW <acronym ti...

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RE: What Scheduled Route Was Terminated The Fastest?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/FWAERJ" class="quote" target="_blank">FWAERJ</a> (<a href="#63" class="quote">Reply 63</a>):<br/><i>Another one: Branson AirExpress from <acrony...

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RE: Has The Repair Of SWA N753SW Started?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/n471wn" class="quote" target="_blank">n471wn</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>If it is DBER it will be cutup at <acronym t...

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RE: Hawaiian To Offer Ipad Mini's On All 767 Flights

I would imagine that the FA's have to keep careful track of what passengers get the iPad's, to make sure all get collected at the destinations.

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RE: Has The Repair Of SWA N753SW Started?

Assuming that the aircraft is indeed a write-off, what will happen to it? Will it be made flyable and flown to one of the aircraft "graveyards" in the southwest, or will it be cut up on-site? If the latter, who will do the work (I doubt <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> has the ...

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RE: Huge Charter From Ketchikan - Disabled Cruise Ship

What really causes headaches for cruise lines is when ships on Caribbean cruises go out of service at any of the islands. A non-insignificant percentage of the people on these cruises refuse to fly, so other cruise lines have to be enlisted to return the stranded travelers to the home ports.

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RE: Short Hops On Long Haul Aircraft. Common Or Not?

Years ago <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> used to operate a L1011 <acronym title="Windsor Locks (Hartford / Springfield) - Bradley International (BDL / KBDL), USA - Connecticut">BDL</acronym>-<acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA -...

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RE: Dassault Mercure--Why Did It Fail?

Speaking of the French domestic network, is there much of it remaining, or did the TGV trains kill it off?

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RE: Re-birthing The B377 Stratocruiser

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/airbear" class="quote" target="_blank">airbear</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>For instance, here in Austrlalia, we have a ...

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RE: Laser Pointer Attacks Against EWR Bound Jets

Being required to show identification before buying a laser pointer might be enough to deter some people who have bad intentions. People who plan illegal things don't like being noticed, even when there's no actual enforcement being done. It's why Wal-Mart long had seniors at the doors greeting arri...

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RE: Laser Pointer Attacks Against EWR Bound Jets

I still can't figure out why there are no restrictions on the purchase of laser pointers. Which isn't to say that they should be heavily restricted like firearms, but only that buyers at least should be required to show identification.

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RE: UPS A300 Crash In Birmingham, AL. - BHM Part 2

It might seem odd at first that the crewmembers did not survive given that the cockpit area is basically intact despite heavy damage. After all, people survive car wrecks all the time with similar or even greater levels of damage. The thing is, cars have crumple zones and airbags to protect occupant...

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RE: Newcomers Guide To Planespotting

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/HomSar" class="quote" target="_blank">HomSar</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>Quoting PROSA (Reply 8): The venerable 757 d...

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RE: CL415 Airtanker Drops On Highway Crash

<i>I wonder if there was any further to damage to vehicles getting hit by that much water so quickly.</i> I would imagine that the truck and the road grader were both write-offs, so it wouldn't matter. According to a news report I read about this incident, the man taking the video (the foreman of a ...

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RE: Newcomers Guide To Planespotting

Boeing 767s are no longer made

Doesn't know much about aviation.

The venerable 757 debuted in 1981, which means that there are some examples plying the airways that could be 26 years old.

Pretty bad at math too.

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RE: Plane Crashes Short Of The Runway At HVN

Here's a reader comment to the New York Daily News article on the crash: <i>My heart goes out to the innocent people on the ground who were the victims. Why is there so much press coverage on the clown in the airplane? He was taking a risk - he'd already crashed a plane once before. He knew the chan...

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RE: CL415 Airtanker Drops On Highway Crash

Using an air tanker makes sense. The Trans-Labrador Highway is an almost unbelievably isolated route, with one stretch of 300 km between settlements of any sort. It might well have taken hours to get any fire engines to the crash scene. I'm guessing that the police didn't just let the truck burn its...

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RE: Plane Crashes Short Of The Runway At HVN

Reports say that the pilot was Bill Henningsgaard, a former top executive at Microsoft. His son was with him and also died.

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RE: Medieval Times: Dinner & Tournament

We went to the one in New Jersey a few years ago. I was expecting a sort-of-okay show and mediocre food. What we actually had was an excellent show and very good food.

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Security Doors At JFK T4 Delay Rescuers, Man Dies

No way of knowing if the delay contributed to the man's death, but clearly the issue of emergency access has to be addressed:
http://gothamist.com/2013/07/17/man_...ies_at_jfk_after_first_respond.php

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RE: Gang Graffitied Plane At Van Nuys

The police are all worried about a breach of airport security, but it's entirely possible that the tagger was an airport or FBO employee with authorized access to the location.

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RE: How Did Manhattan Airline Terminals Work?

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/psa188" class="quote" target="_blank">psa188</a> (<a href="#48" class="quote">Reply 48</a>):<br/><i>Quoting dstc47 (Reply 47): Which sadly leave...

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RE: Otherwise-obscure Airport Namesakes

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/reality" class="quote" target="_blank">reality</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i>Or any major airports named after women?</...

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RE: Otherwise-obscure Airport Namesakes

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/N328KF" class="quote" target="_blank">N328KF</a> (<a href="#35" class="quote">Reply 35</a>):<br/><i>But anyone who calls "Billy Mitchell" obscur...

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RE: Otherwise-obscure Airport Namesakes

<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/toering" class="quote" target="_blank">toering</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i> I always thought Wold or Chamberlain were...

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RE: Otherwise-obscure Airport Namesakes

Even if <acronym title="Las Vegas - McCarran International (LAS / KLAS), USA - Nevada">LAS</acronym> had a different name, movie buffs would remember Pat McCarran as the (alleged) inspiration for the crooked Senator Geary in Godfather <acronym title="Business Air (United Kingdom)">II</acronym> ...

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RE: How Did Manhattan Airline Terminals Work?

This is the Corinthian, the very expensive apartment building on the site of Manhattan's East Side Airlines Terminal:

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