Government support for developing new passenger aircraft first emerged as a contentious issue in 1988.
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Any sort of unauthorized flight near JFK poses a threat, since they could collide with a passenger aircraft.
The study will examine the possibility of extending the 771m (2, 530ft) strip so it can better accommodate passenger aircraft.
When the Airbus A380 enters service it will become the second-largest plane in the world and largest passenger aircraft.
The airport was also considered the first to have infrastructure compatible with the colossal Airbus A380 -- the biggest passenger aircraft flying today.
But they tended to be far smaller than commercial passenger aircraft.
It said the industry must respond to opportunities for both a demand for greener aircraft, and a forecast for 27, 000 new passenger aircraft and 40, 000 commercial helicopters.
To put all of the above information into perspective, we created a map of the countries showing the most troublesome accident records for commercial passenger aircraft.
Unmanned aerial systems, sometimes called drones, and other remote-controlled planes could pose a risk to larger passenger aircraft if they collided or were sucked into an engine.
Running mostly on Blaugas, occasionally on gasoline, the airship circled the Earth in 1929, stopping only twice to refuel-the first transit of the globe by a passenger aircraft.
Running mostly on Blaugas, occasionally on gasoline, the airship circled the Earth in 1929, stopping only twice to refuel--the first transit of the globe by a passenger aircraft.
The third such incident was on 22 June near Bournemouth airport when an ATR 72 passenger aircraft and another Piper came within 400 yards horizontally of each other.
After foiling the jihadist plot to down US-bound British passenger aircraft last summer, MI5 director Eliza Manningham-Buller claimed that there are some 1, 600 British Muslims actively involved in plotting attacks against Britain.
Air freight offers speed for the 40% of the world's trade (by value) that travels in cargo flights or in the hold of passenger aircraft, but it costs ten times more than sea transport.
In the late 1980s Libya fell under international sanctions after Mr Qaddafi was charged with sponsoring the mid-air bombing of two passenger aircraft, French and American, with the loss of more than 400 lives.
There were extensive flight cancellations and delays yesterday after British authorities revealed they had broken up a plot to use liquid explosives to blow up passenger aircraft flying between the United Kingdom and the United States.
The demand for larger-scale private and corporate jets has been such that the major aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, now offer modified versions of their passenger aircraft -- the Boeing BBJ (Boeing Business Jet) and Airbus CJ (Corporate Jet).
They apparently hope to sell the argument that, since ballistic missile defenses would not have stopped the passenger aircraft used by the terrorists this time, we should not be defended against what may be their weapon of choice the next time.
In this case, the video shows the 747 in a steep (significantly steeper than the climb of most passenger aircraft taking off from civilian airports), slow climb, then the climb stops and the aircraft rolls over on its wing and crashes in a fiery ball on impact.
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At the Paris Air Show Mitsubishi Aircraft launched a marketing blitz for the MRJ, trying hard to get attention and orders in what an increasingly competitive market for medium-sized, short haul passenger jet aircraft.
Up to 192 mobiles can be logged on to an Access Point, which more than covers every passenger onboard the aircraft.
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As the range and passenger load of aircraft grow, so does the importance of international hub airports such as London's Heathrow.
Sometimes this might mean using a passenger mask - aircraft usually have one more per row than there are seats, so that travellers with babies on laps have a spare.
Joel McNicholls, 20, was the only passenger in the light aircraft which hit houses in Salford, in July 2011.
In 1920, the first fatalities on a scheduled passenger flight occurred when an aircraft crashed into a house, killing the two-person crew and two passengers at Cricklewood, London.
Embraer makes everything from military aircraft to regional passenger jets.
Russian pilots have safely landed a passenger plane in Siberia after the aircraft lost power at 10, 600m (34, 800ft).
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