Heating system may be cause of fire in UAL flight, judge rules for Delta in case against Mesa Air Group, NTSB holds forum for pilots and controllers
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Last week Ned discussed airplane crash survival odds, where to sit and what to wear. This week, he focuses on crash survival plans, tactics and techniques.
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Catalina Island is making a comeback. Last spring, a contractor on the California island illegally used an open-flame torch to cut some steel cables. A spark set off a grass fire which quickly spread. 4,800 acres of chaparral, grassland and woods, parched by two years of drought, went up like a wad of newspaper.
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We may never know if Eder Rojas, the flight attendant on a recent Compass Air flight from Minneapolis to Regina, Saskatchewan, was trying to bring down the plane or just barbecue it a bit when he set fire to the paper towels in the airplane’s rear lavatory, forcing an emergency landing in Fargo, N.D. What we do know is that his misdeeds are just the latest episode of Stewards Gone Wild.
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