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...series of near-collisions also led the DGCA to decree that simultaneous operations on the two runways - whose flight paths merge instead of lying parallel - be discontinued. Those simultaneous runway operation had been implemented in April 2006 to increase flight departures and arrivals from 25 to 42 per hour. That was, however, a violation of international safety norms because Delhi's runways do not lie parallel. A new parallel runway will not be operational until the middle of next year, and traffic movement will slow down considerably until then...
...recording was provided by Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini, the Miami resident who had allegedly attempted to smuggle the $800,000 into Argentina on Aug. 4 on a flight from Caracas, Venezuela. He flew on a charter by Argentina's state oil company. Antonini, who had allegedly fled Argentina for his Key Biscayne, Florida, home, allowed himself to be wiretapped by the FBI and the information he gathered led to the arrest of Venezuelan businessmen Franklin Duran and Carlos Kauffmann. Mulvihill said that Antonini had been offered $2 million by an unnamed party to hide the provenance and the beneficiary...
...Egyptian-American, likes to complain about how hard it is to pass through airport security because a well-known terrorist shares the same name. If dubious airline officials ask him to prove he's a comedian by telling a joke, Ahmed responds: "Um, I just graduated from flight school?" When that joke bombs (sorry!), he consoles himself with the thought of how frustrated the other Ahmed must get when people mistake him for a comedian. "I'm a terrorist, goddamit...
...Harvard College Aviation Club, which received official student group status this fall. “I’d seen aerial photos, but it was incredible to see it myself,” Hao Sun ’10 said. Following the Charles River, the 10 a.m. flight featured aerial views of Cambridge, downtown Boston, and the Boston Harbor, including such landmarks as Memorial Hall, MIT, and the Massachusetts State House. Most of the flight went smoothly—until the helicopter began to round Boston’s skyscrapers. “The buildings act like a mountain range...
...well does the in-flight e-mail work? I went on a quick two-hour jaunt from New York City to Washington and back earlier this week to test out the new service and was impressed by the speed. My IMs and BlackBerry messages went through seamlessly to my colleagues even while I was zipping in the air. But we did run into dead spots. For about 15 minutes we were flying along the edge of a cell tower that did not have a strong enough signal to connect, so my e-mails sat in cyberspace limbo. Once the signal...