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All safe after flight lands in Mandalay without nose landing gear extended
/ | 2 Comments on All safe after flight lands in Mandalay without nose landing gear extendedAll 89 passengers and crew have emerged unscathed from a Myanmar National Airlines flight that was forced to land without its nose landing gear extended.
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Mid-air collision in Alaska kills five people
/A mid-air collision between between a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver and de Havilland Otter DHC-3 over Southeast Alaska has killed five people.
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Qantas frequent flyers getting a flight all to themselves
/ | 1 Comment on Qantas frequent flyers getting a flight all to themselvesQantas will operate an Airbus A380 from Melbourne to Tokyo on October 21 where all 486 seats will be for frequent flyer points redemptions.
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Sweeping changes to NZ aviation legislation proposed
New Zealand has propsed sweeping changes to its civil aviation regulations that include, among other things, making it an offence to harm an aviation security officer’s dog.
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Adelaide Airport says passenger numbers down 0.1 per cent in Q1 2019
/An increase in international travellers has been offset by flat domestic passenger numbers at Adelaide Airport during the first three months of 2019.
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Finding a new lease on life for fading satellites
/This story by Max Blenkin in the April 2019 edition of Australian looks at efforts by Northrop Grumman to extend the life of satellites in space.
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