 Salvage plan for Costa Concordia unveiled in Rome
 18.05.2012 18:53  0 views  0 comments
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 The plan to remove the massive wreck of Costa Concordia, which lies half submerged off the Italian island of Giglio after capsizing in January, was revealed today in Rome. At least 30 people died after the ship ran aground.
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'No more ships like this': USS Iowa finds home in LA
18.05.2012 9:17 0 views 0 comments
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 The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, is to become a floating museum.
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FAA proposes nearly $400,000 fine against US Airways
17.05.2012 19:36 0 views 0 comments
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The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed fining US Airways $395,850 for allegedly permitting hazardous materials on some of its flights without proper packaging and without notifying the airline's pilots.
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TSA aims to screen all cargo on US-bound flights
17.05.2012 18:20 0 views 0 comments
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Nearly five years after the 9/11 Commission Act recommended that 100 percent of cargo aboard passenger planes be screened, The Transportation Security Administration has announced a deadline to meet the requirement. Read more »
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Berlin airport opening delayed to 2013
17.05.2012 14:10 0 views 0 comments
The opening of Berlin's new $3.18-billion airport must be further delayed until spring of next year, the capital's mayor said Thursday, in a growing embarrassment for city officials. Read more »
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Delta says frequent fliers saw different fares
16.05.2012 22:41 0 views 0 comments
 Delta Air Lines may have charged some frequent fliers higher fares than other customers for almost three weeks because of a computer glitch.
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Couple booted from cruise ship after missing drill
16.05.2012 19:18 0 views 0 comments
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An elderly couple was booted from a luxury ship Saturday after the wife refused to participate in the mandatory safety drill that begins every cruise. Read more »
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Terminal upgrades: 7 new airport expansions
16.05.2012 13:39 0 views 0 comments
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 On Wednesday, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport opens a new $1.4 billion terminal. The airport upgrades don’t stop there. Here are six more projects you may spy next time you fly.
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Henry Kissinger gets a TSA pat-down
15.05.2012 19:40 0 views 0 comments
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Geraldo Rivera, Sen. Diane Feinstein and now Henry Kissinger — apparently, when TSA decides you need a pat-down, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a ubiquitous TV host, a sitting U.S. senator or a one-time titan of foreign policy.
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Airport worker charged for using dead man's ID
15.05.2012 17:37 0 views 0 comments
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A longtime security supervisor at Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested on a charge he was using the identity of a New York City man who was murdered 20 years ago. Read more »
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Budget-minded consumers skimping on summer travel
15.05.2012 17:09 0 views 0 comments
Cheaper gas won't be enough to get many more Americans on the road this summer. They're still too worried about their jobs and the economy. Read more »
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Report shows 'gaping hole' in airport security
14.05.2012 20:40 0 views 0 comments
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TSA does a poor job of centrally tracking security breaches at airports, according to a report released by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General, which performs agency audits.
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Ex-Cunard crew member gets 4 years for sex offenses
14.05.2012 18:11 0 views 0 comments
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A former Cunard crew member was sentenced at Swindon Crown Court on Friday to four years in prison for sexual assaults against children under his care while he was a Cunard employee. Read more »
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Castaway sues US cruise line for not helping
14.05.2012 16:17 0 views 0 comments
 The lawyer for a Panamanian man who watched two companions die while surviving at sea for 28 days in their small disabled boat says he's suing a U.S. cruise line because one of its ships failed to help.
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BWI concourses reopened after evacuation
14.05.2012 16:02 0 views 0 comments
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Airport fire and rescue personnel have reopened the two concourses at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport after an odor was detected a short time ago. Concourses A and B had been closed as a precaution because of an unusual odor. Read more »
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6 survive, 15 killed as plane hits Nepal mountain
14.05.2012 8:10 0 views 0 comments
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A plane crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal on Monday, killing 15 people and critically injuring six.
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Castaway sues US cruise line for not helping
14.05.2012 1:49 0 views 0 comments
The lawyer for a Panamanian man who watched two companions die while surviving at sea for 28 days in their small disabled boat says he's suing a U.S. cruise line because one of its ships failed to help. Read more »
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Geraldo Rivera calls TSA screening 'manual rape'
11.05.2012 21:17 0 views 0 comments
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It’s been almost two years since “don’t touch my junk” entered the traveler lexicon but some Internet memes never go out of style. Read more »
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Jilted boyfriend gives away his vacation to Malta
11.05.2012 18:38 0 views 0 comments
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 Tom Frankenburg, a 22-year-old student in England, had the perfect vacation planned: a trip for him and his girlfriend to Malta. But then she broke up with him. Now he wants to give away his holiday for free.
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Pilot who helped crash-land jet in 1989 dies
10.05.2012 18:50 0 views 0 comments
Airline pilot Denny Fitch was hitching a ride home on a DC-10 in 1989 when heard an explosion somewhere in the back of the jet. He soon made his way to the cockpit to see if the crew needed help. Read more »
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