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Pentagon Pulls Support for Air Safety Bill Written After D.C. Helicopter and Plane Crash

New York Times 24 Feb 2026
The legislation, which the House is expected to vote on Tuesday, would require military and commercial aircraft to use certain tracking technology to avoid collisions ... .
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Thousands of Flights Are Canceled as Storm Slams Northeast Airports

New York Times 23 Feb 2026
Airlines suspended operations at some major airports and expect to restart some flights on Monday and more on Tuesday ... .
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What Travelers Need to Know as Cartel Violence Rattles Mexico

New York Times 23 Feb 2026
The killing of a drug lord and the unrest that followed have prompted flight cancellations, roadblocks, cruise disruptions and “shelter in place” alerts ... .
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Traveling This Weekend? Here’s What to Know About the Snowstorm.

New York Times 22 Feb 2026
A major winter storm on Sunday and Monday is expected to bring delays and cancellations across much of the Northeast ... .
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Why Airplane Reliability Matters More Than You Think

Flying 20 Feb 2026
“Is our airplane reliable?” The query was easy to dismiss for those of us that simply shrug our shoulders and accept that airplanes just break because it’s part of ownership ... airplane is safe to fly.
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Do airplane tags contain your sensitive information? THIS is the reason why you should tear them off vertically!

The Times of India 20 Feb 2026
The viral baggage tag warningAn Instagram video by Ariya recently went viral, urging travelers not to simply throw away airline baggage tags ... Here’s why. You see, these barcodes contain all of your personal information ... .
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Airworthiness Directives: Airbus SAS Airplanes (The eRulemaking Program)

Public Technologies 20 Feb 2026
Airworthiness Directives; Airbus SAS Airplanes ... The FAA proposes to adopt a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Airbus SAS Model A330-841 and A330-941 airplanes ... A330-841 and A330-941 airplanes.
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Vietnam Airlines Finalizes Order for 50 Boeing 737 MAX Airplanes

Floyd County Chronicle 19 Feb 2026
787 Dreamliner operator places first Boeing single-aisle order as part of its growth strategyVersatile 737-8 jets will expand Vietnam's short- and medium-haul network amid rising travel demand ... .
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Ice Barbie wants another airplane

Boing Boing 19 Feb 2026
The grift never stops ... The post Ice Barbie wants another airplane appeared first on Boing Boing. .
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How do airplane emergency slides work? A primer after JetBlue incident

northjersey.com 19 Feb 2026
'Miracle on the Hudson' survivor speaks a decade after flight. Dave Sanderson, who was one of the last passengers to leave flight US Airways flight 1549, speaks from the banks of the Hudson River. January 14, 2019. Kevin R. Wexler, NorthJersey ... 15, 2009.
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Authorities identify pilot killed in Poplar Grove airplane crash

Journal-Standard 18 Feb 2026
A pilot killed in a small airplane crash in a neighborhood near the Poplar Grove Airport Feb. 14 was identified as Richard C ...
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Japan bans power banks' use in airplanes from April: Report

Anadolu Agency 18 Feb 2026
Japan will ban the use of power banks in airplanes beginning in April due to incidents in which they caught fire during flights, according to a report from Kyodo News on Wednesday ... .
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Balancing comfort and views: Airplane window shade etiquette

Newsday 18 Feb 2026
Jeffrey Morgenthaler was flying home from Grand Cayman last month when he noticed something distressing. The view was "gorgeous," but he was the only one enjoying it ... He took his observation to social media ... The reactions poured in ... ....
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Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’

Business Ghana 18 Feb 2026
There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting ... This gets into my next question, which is sort of ties in also to the name, Flapping Airplanes.
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