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An American Airlines flight attendant was unhappy that an obese passenger was allowed to board a flight without paying for two seats. She took a photograph of him to show managers the difficulty in seating a passenger who is overweight...Continue Reading...
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Nightmare on a plane T he miserable night 47 unlucky passengers spent in a cramped airplane at an airport in Rochester, Minn., last Friday makes the case yet again for the need for a law establishing passengers' rights while traveling...Continental Airlines...
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A top commander says the U.S. military would have launched fighters to track down an errant Northwest Airlines flight if it had been notified quickly enough...Northern Command, said he learned of the incident just four or five minutes before the Federal...
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Officials say a security threat forced a Boston-bound airplane to turn around and return to a South Florida airport. American Airlines [ AMR ] Flight 1640 departed Miami International Airport around 9:30 Thursday night but returned about 45 minutes later.
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Rapidly growing clouds typical of towering thunderstorms sprang up along the path of a Continental Airlines flight that encountered severe turbulence last week. That is a finding of a preliminary investigation of the incident involving Continental Airlines...
Craig Lenell, 60, had no known heart condition and underwent twice-a-year physicals, Lynda Lenell said. Her husband, who had worked for Continental Airlines for 32 years, died of a suspected heart attack midway through Flight 61 on Friday...Passengers...
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A group of passengers on board an airplane headed to Los Angeles restrained a man who allegedly began making threats during the flight, a passenger says. Guitarist Chris Llewellyn said he was one of seven passengers on board Delta Airlines Flight 110...
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There were 124 passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 59 when it left the Netherlands...Phil Orlandella, a spokesman for Logan International Airport, says a woman went into labor and gave birth to an apparently healthy baby girl over the Atlantic Ocean...
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A Northwest Airlines flight to Minneapolis returned to Mitchell International Airport Monday night and made an emergency landing because of mechanical problems. The 119 passengers on flight 796 that took off about 6 p.m. said they were told that an engine...
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A Mexicana Airlines flight overshot a runway while landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Friday night and struck a safety barrier, injuring a flight attendant, authorities said. Flight 802 was arriving from Mexico City just after 7 p.m. when...
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