May
19
    
Posted (admin) in on May-19-2008

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JetBlue Airways was sued by a man and was charging the airlines for more than $2 million because a pilot made him gave up his seat to a flight attendant and the man sat on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.

Gokhan Mutlu stated in courted papers that the pilot told him “to go hangout in the bathroom” about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the “jump seat” was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said.

Mutlu was traveling on a “buddy pass,” a standby travel voucher that JetBlue employees give to friends, from New York to San Diego on February 16 and returned to New York on February 23, the lawsuit said. Mutlu was told that a flight attendant had already taken the last seat on the plane, but then he was advised she would sit in the employee “jump seat,” meaning he could have the last seat, the lawsuit said.

The pilot told him 11/2 hours into the five-hour flight that he would have to relinquish the seat to the flight attendant, court papers say. But the pilot said that Mutlu could not sit in the jump seat because only JetBlue employees were permitted to sit there, the lawsuit said.

Mutlu was reluctant to go sit in the bathroom, so the pilot (unnamed in the lawsuit), told him that “he was the pilot, that this was his plane, under his command that (Mutlu) should be grateful for being onboard,” the lawsuit said.

Court papers said that when the aircraft hit turbulence, passengers were directed to return to their seats, but “the plaintiff had no seat to return to, seating on a toilet stool with no seatbelts.” A male flight attendant knocked on the restroom door some time later and told Mutlu he could return to his original seat.

Mutlu’s lawsuit, filed Friday in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court, says JetBlue negligently endangered him by not providing him with a seat with a safety belt or harness, in violation of federal law.


 
May
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Posted (admin) in on May-19-2008

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USAF indicates that it has successfully examined classified technology transmission information of two aircrafts (F-22 Raptor) to ground stations.

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors sent the classified data of probe of the air at the air base of Nellis to Nevada and the air base of Langley in Virginia with the new technology of tactical network of optimization under development by Rockwell Collins. The experiment formed part of the Expéditionnaire experiment common annual force of the U. S Air Force where the order and the order and other technologies of optimization are examined.

The civil servant declares that the test of data link of F-22 data marked the first stage for the fighter towards becoming network-enabled during the JEFX08.

“Lockheed Martin was excited about the Air Force’s decision to demonstrate the value of sharing F-22 intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance data with other fighters and back to the Combined Air Operations Center,” Larry Lawson, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. executive vice president and F-22 general program manager, said in a statement. “This is the first time in history that F-22 sensor data was down-linked to the Combined Air Operations Center using a tactical network.”


 
May
18
    
Posted (Marianne) in on May-18-2008

Wednesday last week, an immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. When security staff at Vancouver Airport told Air Canada they had found a very young Filipino child wandering alone near the departure gates, the airline acted quickly.

Air Canada found someone who could speak Tagalog to the child, and though he had no boarding pass with him, staff of Air Canada was able to find his parents on board one of the aircrafts. The parents and grandparents of the child, separated on the plane to Winnipeg, each thought the other adults had the boy with them.

The airline flew the child’s father round-trip back to Vancouver from Winnipeg at its own cost to be reunited with his son.  Air Canada staff began checking flights that left and eventually they determined who his parents might be. Flight crews talked to them, they didn’t realize until then that the baby had been left behind.

It was a total relief to the parents and grandparents of the child, the staff of Vancouver airport and Air Canada took good care of him.


 
May
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Posted (Nina) in on May-15-2008

The modern non-nuclear submarine is recognized to be a strongly effective denial and an intelligence of sea collecting of the capital and, in the right hands, a very provocative adversary for very the forces good-equipped with the anti-submarine war (ASM).

In the same way 26 years above, the experiment of Navy royal BRITISH (RN ) of the 1982 Falklands (Malvinas) are in conflict of being used as salutary recall in the way in which a difficult prey the conventional submarine can be.

Although it deployed large a taskforce equipped with a complete range of the possibilities of ASM, it did not detect San Luis, the simple standard 209 conventional submarine of Argentina deployed in the theatre.

It it is believed that only one defective system of ordering of shooting prevented the submarine from carrying out an attack successful on a frigate of RN actuating coastal narrow.