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A Continental Boeing 737-500 slid off the runway at Denver International Airport this morning. No one was killed, but 38 of the 107 passengers and 5 crew were taken to the emergency room. Looking at the picture of the plane, it is lucky that the number is not higher. Flight 1404 on its way to […]
Boeing is working to allow their jets to run off a bio fuel made from algae. Of course we all like the idea of fuel that isn’t as bad for the environment, but one of the benefits of this type of fuel is that jatropha (the image above and where the fuel is made from) […]
And it happens again. The lovely situation where people are left sitting in a plane that is going no where for hours and hours. Add to that they only get water and crackers (yummy). This is just another incident that is re-sparking the debate about passenger protections. The flight today is a little more difficult, […]
Commercial is not about an airline, but sometimes I wish flight attendants would act more like this to passengers who abuse the system! Source: YouTube
As we covered a few months ago, China has been in the development of their aircraft. We already talked about how this plane is hardly new in the last blog, so maybe will just talk more about how this actually happened and the Chinese are taking a real dive into the airline aircraft market. The […]