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.
Since this was a classified mission for the Department of Defense (you know, to handle super secret military stuff), the shuttle's crew was forced to encrypt the images of the damaged tiles it sent back to NASA, which lowered the resolution of the images enough that the ground crew wrote off the damage as a trick of the light.
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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.
When the rocket at last blasted off on November 15th, the first-stage engine cut out prematurely, forcing the ground crew to destroy it for safety reasons.
In the case of the flight attendant they knew, from past experience, that if this item was turned over to the ground crew, it would be a mistake.
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But on arrival in Port Moresby, ground crew found the snake had died.
During the event, several video questions will be selected and answered by the station crew and astronauts on the ground.
The Song of the Whale crew sailed the busy fishing ground of the Baltic Sea for the first time this summer listening for signs of harbour porpoises.
But it's a very joyous experience, and something that you can share with both the people on the ground and the people who are part of your crew throughout the entire mission.
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As the aircraft ran out of altitude and options, gliding with a broken windshield and no engine power, the crew made visual contact with the ground and spotted a straight section of a rural highway below.
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As the helicopter hovered over the carnage, the crew noticed a wounded survivor struggling on the ground.
After graduation he went to California and started by working on the harvest night crew in 1997 and learned the trade from the ground up.
Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said an 11-member "go team" would be on the ground in New York for the next five to seven days, interviewing crew members and passengers about the incident, and looking into past incidents and maintenance of the ferry.
Every flight attendant at American Airlines wields a Samsung Galaxy tablet to access customer information, and the on-ground Qatar Airways concierge crew in Doha is using tablets to identify VIPs or travellers in need of special meals.
"It is a serious situation, but between crew and experts on the ground, it appears to have been stabilized, " Hadfield tweeted Thursday.
"Our crew got the plane on the ground with considerable damage -- pretty hairy, " said Secretary of State Colin Powell.
He said the crew was reporting that there had been a ground explosion, but he and others were sure that it was aerial shelling, suggesting that the government targeted the campus.
The incident Monday, which involved Air Canada Flight 001 bound for Tokyo from Toronto with 318 passengers and 16 crew members aboard, damaged vehicles on the ground and forced the Boeing 777 to return to Toronto.
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He said the crew of a scallop dredger chased him off his "own ground" during the attack on Friday.
She saw the crew had been thrown from the aircraft - they were on the ground.
CCiCap was devised for the purpose of identifying a complete launch system - not just a crew "taxi", but a rocket to launch it, and all the necessary ground support operation.
The tornado swept up the tornado-hunt truck he and a crew were traveling in, tossed it 200 yards into a field and smashed it to the ground.
One tornado swept up a truck carrying a crew from The Weather Channel, hurled it 200 yards into a field and smashed it to the ground.
There are no limits on liability exposure for passengers and crew, but the industry will receive protection from claims filed by those killed and injured on the ground in New York and Virginia.
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