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...plane carrying U.S. Open champion Stewart to Dallas took off from Orlando at 9.19 a.m. but stopped responding to air traffic controllers after 9.45 a.m. That prompted them to call the Air Force, which routinely tracks out-of-control aircraft. Although such planes can be shot down if they present a threat to public safety, that option was never considered in the case of Stewart's plane. Though the Learjet is equipped with masks and other depressurization emergency equipment similar to that of an airliner, some experts believe that insidious - rather than sudden - depressurization can confuse and disorient a pilot...
...kind of expedition they could manage. The company that pioneered such trips, Northwest Passage, is planning its fifth trek to the geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April a party of eight to 15 will fly charter aircraft from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to within 150 miles of the pole. Then, under a 24-hr. polar sun, in often subzero temperatures, the group will follow Peary's route from 88[degrees] to 90[degrees] north, climbing over walls of ice, crossing expanses of open water on ice blocks bound...
...have consistently been shown to encourage work rather than welfare. It is more saddening that this move would come at the same time that other money is being spent for wealthier, more powerful constituencies: Senate majority leader Trent Lott is currently attempting to secure $500 million for an extra aircraft carrier to be built in his home state of Mississippi, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) has just passed an amendment to save the oil industry $66 million a year in royalties owed to the public...
Your story "Rent-A-Jet Cachet" [BUSINESS, Sept. 13] missed the bigger picture in the business of renting jets. While fractional aircraft ownership is attractive to people and companies that are willing to invest millions of dollars to own a "share" of a plane, many people don't want to have their money tied up in such a costly asset and don't fly enough to justify the expenditure. For most people,"on-demand aircraft charter" is far cheaper than fractional ownership, especially if they fly fewer than 20 times a year. Aircraft charter varies in cost from...
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