Air Travel

NY lawmakers push for airline safety devices

July 27, 2014 6:36 pm

This photo provided on Friday, July 25, 2014, by the Burkina Faso Military shows a part of the plane at the crash site, in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. Terrorism hasn't been ruled out as a cause, although officials say the most likely reason for the catastrophe that killed all onboard is bad weather. At least 116 people were killed in Thursday's disaster, nearly half of whom were French. (AP Photo/Burkina Faso Military)

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Air Algerie jet’s black boxes to be sent to France

Baba Ahmed -

July 27, 2014 4:54 pm

A man reads a local newspaperson a street with the headline Ebola Virus kills Liberian in Lagos, in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, July 26, 2014. An Ebola outbreak that has left more than 600 people dead across West Africa has spread to the continent's most populous nation after a Liberian man with a high fever vomited aboard an airplane to Nigeria and then died there, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) The 40-year-old man had recently lost his sister to Ebola in Liberia, health officials there said. It was not immediately clear how he managed to board a flight, but he was moved into an isolation ward upon arrival in Nigeria on Tuesday and died on Friday. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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Nigeria death shows Ebola can spread by air travel

Heather Murdock -

July 27, 2014 12:51 am

This photo provided Friday July 25, 2014 by the French army shows a helicopter at the site of the plane crash in Mali. French soldiers secured a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, the French president said. Terrorism hasn't been ruled out as a cause, although officials say the most likely reason for the catastrophe that killed all onboard is bad weather. At least 116 people were killed in Thursday's disaster, nearly half of whom were French. (AP Photo/ECPAD)

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Teams converge on remote site to probe plane crash

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July 25, 2014 8:23 pm

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Obama’s ‘Africa Summit’ to close parts of D.C., limit airspace

Paul Bedard -

July 25, 2014 2:39 pm

File - This July 17, 2014, file photo show people walking amongst the debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said the passenger plane was shot down as it flew over the country, killing all 298 people on board. Aviation has suffered one of its worst weeks in memory, a cluster of disasters spanning three continents. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

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Air travel a leap of faith for passengers

Washington Examiner -

July 25, 2014 7:33 am

A forensic team recovers human remains among the wreckage of crashed TransAsia Airways flight GE222 on the outlying island of Penghu, Taiwan, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Stormy weather on the trailing edge of Typhoon Matmo was the likely cause of the plane crash that killed more than 40 people, the airline said Thursday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Very bad week: Airline disasters come in a cluster

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July 25, 2014 1:51 am

Travelers congregate in front of a departures board showing one canceled flight to Tel Aviv at Newark Liberty International Airport, Tuesday, July 22, 2014, in Newark, N.J. In a sign of increased caution about flying near combat zones, U.S. and European airlines halted flights to Israel Tuesday after a rocket landed near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. Delta Air Lines and United Airlines suspended service between the U.S. and Israel indefinitely. The actions come days after a Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine with 298 people on board. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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FAA tells US airlines not to fly to Tel Aviv

Washington Examiner -

July 22, 2014 10:52 pm

A destroyed house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Yahud, a Tel Aviv suburb near the airport, central Israel, Tuesday. As a result, Delta Air Lines and U.S. Airlines decided to cancel their scheduled flights to Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Beltway Confidential

U.S. flight ban could be Hamas’ biggest success in latest clash with Israel

Spencer Brown -

July 22, 2014 5:10 pm

A girl holding a candle stands in front of a banner during an event to mourn the victims of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday. (AP/Lai Seng Sin)

Beltway Confidential

What could possibly go wrong? Malaysia Airlines rerouting flights over Syria instead of Ukraine

Blake Seitz -

July 21, 2014 6:22 pm

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Tag: Air Travel

NY lawmakers push for airline safety devices

Air Algerie jet’s black boxes to be sent to France

Nigeria death shows Ebola can spread by air travel

Teams converge on remote site to probe plane crash

Obama’s ‘Africa Summit’ to close parts of D.C., limit airspace

Air travel a leap of faith for passengers

Very bad week: Airline disasters come in a cluster

FAA tells US airlines not to fly to Tel Aviv

U.S. flight ban could be Hamas’ biggest success in latest clash with Israel

What could possibly go wrong? Malaysia Airlines rerouting flights over Syria instead of Ukraine

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