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Federal Aviation Administration A Pilot Treated for Depression, on Why and How He Flies
"For a young pilot who is looking for a career in the industry, the low-cost market is not a viable long-term option. Many of us are burning out because our employers are treating us in the same way that they treat the aeroplanes." A European pilot on ramifications of the Germanwings crash.
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Wikimedia Commons Can We Learn Anything From the Germanwings Disaster?
A technologist says the day of airliners flown by remote control is closer than we think. Is that good news or bad? Plus, why it's better to be a co-pilot and other lessons from the latest crash.
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Gary Wiepert/Reuters More From Pilots and Doctors on the Germanwings Crash
Cost pressures, alcohol as the only "approved" anti-mental-illness drug, and other ramifications of this murder/suicide
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Why the Latest Air-Scare Shows How Safe Airline Travel Is, Not How Dangerous
The flying world's counterpart to your car's airbag and anti-skid brakes.
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YouTube What an Autopilot Could Never Do
Fun with flying, extreme crosswinds edition.
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Tintin Wikia Malaysia 370, Day 10: One Fanciful Hypothesis, and Another That Begins to Make Sense
Did the airplane hide in a "radar shadow"? Probably not. Did the flight crew act like heroes? Possibly so.
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Flight Aware Why Malaysia Airlines 370 Remains So Profoundly Mysterious, and Why a Better Black Box Wouldn't Help
The absence of data about this flight is itself a significant data point.
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The Malaysian Airlines Flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
No firm news, but the indications are grim
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Reuters 'Springbok, Cleared for Landing': More on the Language of the Skies
By Deborah Fallows.
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In Honor of the Chinese ADIZ, Today's Novelty Aviation Footage
The people who drive on China's roads may soon be able to fly in its skies!
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My Surprising Email of the Day
A major airline dares say, Look at our new feature! Will have a chance to see for myself very soon.
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Asiana 214: Airplane as Hero, and Other Analyses
The role of engineers, pilots, coaches, and God in the path toward disaster -- or safety.
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Back to Asiana 214
On a light-wind, clear-skies day, a team of professional pilots flew a normally functioning airplane smack into the runway. What have we learned about the cause?
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The Perilous Shoals of Memory: Back to that Dicey NYT Mag Story
Memory is unreliable. But there's a difference between misremembering and making things up.
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Finale on the NYT Mag Airplane-in-Peril Story
The writer was telling us "what he heard and felt." Not necessarily what occurred.
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NYT Mag Editor Responds on the 'Terror in the Skies' Article
The editor of the New York Times Magazine gives further details about this controversial account.
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Could the NYT Mag 'My Plane Almost Crashed' Story Actually Be True?
Maybe this all happened. But if so, it was an even stranger flight than it seemed.
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Kicking Passengers Off Planes: A United Captain Weighs In
The struggle to find a modus vivendi in the skies
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The Glamour Has Always Been There: David Broder Edition
Of floors and shoes
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The Glamour Never Stops
Fly the friendly floors
