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Excellent topic, this "trivia'". It's a good place to share this rather strange web page from someone who wants to warn the world against chemtrails (not be confused with contrails, says the author). Hallelujah!

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http://thegreaterpicture.com/chemtrails.html

NL:
http://hetgrotereplaatje.nl/chemtrails.html

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Regional RTV NH (Noord-Holland - the province from Amsterdam) went to AMS to see if today's stormy weather in the Netherlands was causing any problems at Schiphol. The camera crew even registered a go-around from an Emirates A380:

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another must see video by Air New Zealand:

ANZ calls it "the most epic safety video ever made", and it probably is:


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Dominican Republic officials say they have arrested a woman who was carrying more than $70,000 in her stomach and $69,000 hidden inside her suitcase. The spokesman for the National Drug Control Agency says the money in the woman's stomach was divided up among 16 capsules and the cash is likely tied to drug trafficking. Spokesman Dario Medrano said Friday that the 40-year-old woman was arrested at the airport in the popular tourist district of Punta Cana after arriving on a flight from Brussels. Her name has not been released. Dominican authorities say this is the first time they have arrested someone who was smuggling money in their stomach.

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir ... h-26441182

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I can somehow understand how you can physically manage to swallow a few capsules with cocaïne, but 70,000 dollars? Whenever you see this amount of cash money in films, it looks like quite a voluminous quantity of bills. Why not just use Western Union? :)

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Austrian just received a new Q400. It was christened "Innsbruck" and painted in Star Alliance colours. The first commercial flight on 1 November will be ZRH-LUG on behalf of SWISS.

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Today Flybe starts flying from London City. Initial destinations, all served by Q400 aircraft: Inverness, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Exeter, Belfast and Dublin.

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The Dutch press reports that KLM/AF will present terrible quarterly results on Wednesday.

The AF strike has costed the group more then 500.000.000 €

It seems that KLM is very unhappy with AF (an understatement indeed).

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"Duits passagiersvliegtuig opgeschrikt door rukwinden"

Nothing out of the ordinary for FNC, but still remarkable how pilots have to be continuously on the alert to make corrections.

http://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20141027_01344 ... -rukwinden

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BBC : "A Flybe pilot was removed from a plane and arrested on suspicion of being over the drink-drive limit just before he was due to fly. The pilot was due to fly from Newquay Airport in Cornwall to London Gatwick on Wednesday morning before he was removed for a breath test".

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-29822750

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Brand new website for SAS Group launched today! Get the latest news and all you need to know about SAS here: http://sasgroup.net
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The surrealistic text posted on the web page of the airport of Ouagadougou on the first day of the "transition" in Burkina Faso:

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Today, the site is back to normal (and also the SN flights). The SN flight coming from Dakar (SN515) is mentioned as 2J515 (Air Burkina), meaning SN has traffic rights between Dakar and Ouagadougou !
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The Belgian federal Department of Transport has established a new Private Foundation to accommodate EASTI - European Aviation Security Training Institute:

Constitution - FR:
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pd ... 310234.pdf

Oprichtingsakte - NL:
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pd ... 310235.pdf

Website - with possibility to register for their Newsletter:

http://www.easti.eu

In 1989 the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) established the Aviation Security (AVSEC) Mechanism which has fostered the establishment of training facilities in this field of activity world-wide. Since then, regional training centres have been established in Brussels, Naïrobi, Dakar, Quito, Amman, Penang, Trinidad, Moscow, Kyiv, Casablanca, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Kunming, Buenos Aires and Auckland. Close cooperation between all existing regional and sub-regional centres is a must in order to achieve consistent results in an endeavour to ensure ever higher standards in aviation security.

EASTI was inaugurated on 19 November 1997 as the European ICAO Training centre by Dr. Assad Kotaite, President of the ICAO - Council, the Belgian Minister of Transport and the President of ECAC. During its 12 years of existence, EASTI catered for a wide range of ICAO courses and ECAC workshops, 155 in total. Since 2005 EASTI equally closely cooperates with the European Commission (DGTREN), which is a member of its Board together with ICAO and ECAC. The Director of EASTI is Frank Durinckx. The Institute is located in Haren, close to Brussels National Airport (3 km) and in the immediate vicinity of EUROCONTROL and NATO Headquarters.

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http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20141103_01355497

The Dutch company vlucht-vertraagd.be specializes in obtaining compensation for flights much delayed. Last year, more than a thousand Belgians have used it to claim compensation of up to 600 euros. A quarter of the amount received will be for the company itself.

"When passengers affected write a letter of complaint to their airline , they get back a sort of threatening letter with all kinds of legal terms . The vast majority of the passengers give the already there. Also a complaint with the Federal Public Service Mobility often does not help. We are often a last resort ', say manager Tom Van Bokhoven .

"The airlines do indeed everything to escape that compensation , they do this mainly by stretching the term "force majeure" as much as possible.
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sn26567 wrote:The surrealistic text posted on the web page of the airport of Ouagadougou on the first day of the "transition" in Burkina Faso ...
It now appears that the site of the airport of Ouagadougou is not an official site (there is none). Like the sites of the airports of Abidjan, Dakar, Lomé, Bamako, Cotonou, Bissau, Niamey, they all belong to a French citizen living in the South of France, but they use local people for the contents. They are thus commercial enterprises which live from advertising.

The local airport authorities don't have the money to set up an official site, and these "fakes" give enough reliable information. But sometimes an editor can make his feelings known, like happened at Ouagadougou during the recent destitution of the President.

http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ART ... utres.html
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VRT tv, as from Tuesday 04 November 2014: series "Flying doctors"

http://www.een.be/programmas/flying-doctors

Drie dokters en een piloot vertrekken op de reis van hun leven. In een 35 jaar oude Cessna doorkruisen ze Europa, de Middellandse Zee en zes landen in het oosten van Afrika. Het einddoel: het Virungapark in Oost-Congo, waar het toestel een tweede leven krijgt als medisch evacuatievliegtuig voor gewonde rangers. Wie zijn deze avonturiers?

Three young Flemish doctors start the journey of their life. Together with pilot Anthony Caere (33) they deliver OO-NGO, a 35 year old Cessna, to the medical service of the Virunga National Park in Congo.


Preview first episod (04 Nov 2014):
http://www.een.be/programmas/flying-doc ... ende-start

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This afternoon, flight AF006 (CDG-JFK) encountered strong turbulences while climbing to its cruising altitude. The crew decided to come back to Paris-CDG, where the plane landed at 16:26 LT. Three members of the cabin crew were slightly wounded. Medical assistance was provided to both crew and passengers upon arrival at the parking position. No passengers were injured.
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sn26567 wrote:This afternoon, flight AF006 (CDG-JFK) encountered strong turbulences while climbing to its cruising altitude. The crew decided to come back to Paris-CDG, where the plane landed at 16:26 LT. Three members of the cabin crew were slightly wounded. Medical assistance was provided to both crew and passengers upon arrival at the parking position. No passengers were injured.
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Decades ago, there used to be a Crossair MD83 painted in an eye-catching red advertisement for McDonald's.

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Now Austrian Airlines renews the experience on an A321, but in more sober colours:

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