Category Archive: Off the Runway

Unruly passenger removed from Delta flight…Take one… – latimes.com

A video shows police boarding a Delta airlines jet at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this week and taking an unruly passenger off the flight. The incident occurred Wednesday after the man allegedly struck a flight attendant. After the incident other passengers helped restrain him. Allen Chaves of Stillwater, Minn., was taken off flight 2321 …

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1980 NBC News Report on Contrails – Contrail Science

This news report is from 1980.It’s based on this research paper:EFFECT OF CONTRAIL CIRRUS ON SURFACE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE MIDWEST.  It’s interesting because it shows that back in 1980 people were noticing contrails persisting and spreading to cover the whole sky. At that point people had even noticed it contributed to increased cloudiness.This is …

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Airline “Scare Tactics” Follow Tarmac Delay Fines – PR Newswire

NAPA, Calif., Nov. 16, 2011-  In the wake of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) recent landmark decision to fine American Eagle $900,000 for the May 29th stranding of nearly 600 passengers on Chicago O’Hare’s tarmac, it appears that the airline industry has resorted to scare tactics in another attempt to halt the advance of …

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Photos: AirC Images’ father… Still loving planes 70 years later! – OPShots.net

OPShots contributor AirC Images has submitted a pair of photos of his Dad, taken 70 years apart. The older photo, from 1941, shows a dashing young aviator standing in front of a Curtiss Condor II biplane bomber at the now long-gone Roosevelt Field in New York. Seventy years later, he is now ninety one years …

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