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Transportation: Air Travel

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Reuters

An Air France plane with 228 people on board was presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday after hitting heavy turbulence during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The airline offered its condolences to the families of the passengers, making clear it did not expect to find survivors.

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Virgin Galactic tests the hybrid rocket motor that will help the company's second generation craft launch space tourists and cargo into suborbital space. (Photo from inside SpaceShipOne hanger immediately after first launch to Space)

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NY Daily Post

At nine bucks, a flight to Toledo now costs less than a drive across the Verrazano Bridge. The no-frills startup airline JetAmerica -- which currently owns only one airplane -- started offering the absurdly discounted one-way tickets on flights

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Papers Please

Follow-up reports have provided more details but also raised more questions about the incident last month in which the US government refused to allow an Air France flight en route from Paris to Mexico City to follow its normal route through US airspa

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AP

The public will get its first uncensored look this morning at the government's records of where and when airplanes have struck birds over the last 19 years. Finally, travelers will be able to learn which airports have the worst problems with bird

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Michael J. Totten

I purchased my ticket from the worst airline company in the world – Italy’s national carrier Alitalia – and that a two-hour layover in Rome would turn into an ordeal that lasted longer than a week. [insane story]

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Hip Hop Media Training

A billy club at the airport leads to serious charges for R&B singer Wayna. The singer uses the baton as a prop during the performance of her song "Billy Club" that discusses police brutality.

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Clairion Ledger

A loophole in airport security could allow a phony lawman to bring guns aboard a plane with little more than a fake letter and a badge bought off the Internet. Jackson Mayor Frank Melton was allowed to take his personal guns aboard flights to and fro

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