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Airline Worker Dies After Being Ingested Into a Plane Engine
On Friday, a Texas airline worker was ingested into an engine and killed at San Antonio International Airport. The employee, whose name has not yet been released, was working on the runway at 10:25 p.m. when he was “ingested” into the engine of an Airbus A319 aircraft, which had just arrived from Los Angeles International…
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Hackers Just Looted Passenger Data From Some of the World’s Biggest Airlines
SITA, a large data firm that works with some of the world’s largest airlines, announced Thursday that it had been the victim of a “highly sophisticated cyberattack,” the likes of which compromised information on hundreds of thousands of airline passengers all over the world.
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Air New Zealand Made A Lord Of The Rings Movie For An Epic Safety Video
Air New Zealand loves to make fun in-flight safety videos that can include anything from body paint to supermodels to Richard Simmons to Betty White. This time though, they have gone beyond epic: the safety video is basically a full on LOTR and Hobbit movie set in Middle Earth. It’s impressive.
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Air New Zealand Pilot Falls Asleep At The Wheel
Yes. It has finally happened. Your nightmare has actually come true. An honest-to-God, real-life pilot, in charge of a plane full of people and stuff, nodded off at the wheel (stick?), halfway over the ocean. Oh, and it wasn’t just once — the master of the skies managed to have two little cat-naps. Commence screaming.