Several Dreamliners experienced battery problems, prompting global watchdogs to ground the plane.
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Small cell antennas on airplanes could link to onboard phones and transmit between the ground and the plane safely.
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Some of the eight masked assailants stood in front of the Helvetic Airways jet plane with machine guns, pointing laser sights at the pilots inside the cockpit while others forced ground staff to open the plane's cargo doors, according to Belgian prosecutors and other people familiar with the events.
Traces on the ground show that the plane veered toward the left of the runway as it neared takeoff.
As the plane neared the ground at a much-too-fast speed, passengers were warned to brace for impact.
"Our crew got the plane on the ground with considerable damage -- pretty hairy, " said Secretary of State Colin Powell.
There are a number of airlines where the entire business model is driven by reducing the amount of time the plane spends on the ground.
The 1993 film Alive tells the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed to the ground in the Andes Mountains in 1972.
The people transporting the diamonds should have made sure they were secure until the moment the plane lifted off the ground and maybe even have someone on board to protect them in flight.
It seems that someone had reported one or more mosquitoes on the plane on an incoming flight, so the ground crew insisted on fumigating and the flight crew refused to fly a recently fumigated plane.
The 787 has two identical lithium-ion batteries, one of which is located toward the front of the plane and powers cockpit electrical systems, the other toward the rear and used to start an auxiliary power unit while the plane is on the ground, among other functions.
But the plane has never left the ground because, in the U.S.-backed government of Hamid Karzai, General Dostum is something of a persona non grata.
This particular box would be installed in a fighter jet, permitting the pilot to upload video at a rate of 2MB per second, presumably fed from another plane, satellite or nearby ground troops.
The F15 Strike Eagle is the US's two-seater, ground attack version of its main tactical fighter plane.
It's a reenactment of all the things that went on, on that plane before it crashed to the ground.
If a model overestimates the lift around an aircraft's wing, then the actual plane might not get off the ground.
Tuesday night's crash, Brazil's second major air disaster in less than a year, killed all 186 people on the plane and three others on the ground.
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The topic of how to automate at least some aspects of ground operations came up at various meetings between plane manufacturers and suppliers at the show, industry officials said.
Which tends to back up the claim by Iran that its forces brought down the drone through electronic warfare, in other words that it electronically hijacked the plane and steered it to the ground.
Hidden in a hangar at the US Navy's Patuxent River Air Base, in Maryland, away from prying eyes and shaded from the intense sun, US and British ground crew made the final preparations before the plane took to the clear blue skies.
No matter how you slice it, this is significantly faster than any other possible means of public transportation, and there is a decent chance that after departing your hotel at exactly the same time, you will be sipping coffee and nibbling on a croissant in Paris before your plane will have even left the ground at Heathrow.
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Once loaded into her stable on the ground, Black Caviar was lifted into the cargo plane by a scissor lift.
Even if the weather's cloudy on the ground, there will be an unobstructed view once the plane climbs above the clouds.
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"Eating on a plane is not the same as eating on the ground, " says Jones.
Once in flight, the plane will disengage from its capsule and return to the ground, while the capsule launches multistage booster rockets to propel it into space orbit or to the International Space Station.
Like when a plane lands, it doesn't just thump down onto the ground.
The turboprop plane crashed Thursday, killing all 49 aboard and one person on the ground.
Two recent incidents -- a fire aboard a Japan Airlines aircraft at Boston's Logan International Airport on January 7 and a smoke alarm aboard a plane flying over Japan on January 16 -- prompted the FAA to ground all Dreamliners in the United States, and other nations quickly followed suit.
Where in the plane Sweeney was while the hijacking took place is uncertain, but she provided vivid details to the ground manager, according to The Times report.
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