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Nice FR24 bug: non-stop?

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On SN's Africa facebook page they placed an updated version of their commercial of several years ago which was focused on Africa. It's a shorter with the first part taken from the old commercial and added a new end in the current business class instead of in the old commercial with the old C class.

Just some creativity to have something new for their facebook page or is the end (in the new current business class) maybe a part of a new upcoming commercial?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=75 ... =3&theater

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sn26567 wrote:An El Al flight from JFK to Tel-Aviv was delayed after ultra-Orthodox passengers refused to sit next to women.
This kind of event seems to be rather common.

On December 20, Delta flight DL468 from JFK to Tel-Aviv was delayed by 30 minutes because two Haredi men refused to sit in their assigned seats between two female passengers. The flight crew made an effort to find them another seat, but the two female passengers refused to give up their seats in protest at what they saw as discrimination.

Eventually, an American pilgrim agreed to swap seats, and the plane took off.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jew ... s/1.633959
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Gisborne Airport in New Zealand has an active railway across its main runway.

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sn26567 wrote:Gisborne Airport in New Zealand has an active railway across its main runway.
Apparently the traffic coming from the right has priority ! :lol:

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Back in 2009, The Aviation Herald reported about a Swiss A340 having an engine problem:
http://avherald.com/h?article=42369b1f&opt=0

This is how a cameraman registered that incident as it happened:


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Passenger wrote: 03 Nov 2014, 22:48 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
Belgian pilot Anthony Caere had a serious accident last Friday (21 April 2017). Facebook post from the Elite AntiPoaching Units And Combat Trackers: "Special prayers for Anthony Caere who suffered a serious head injury in a plane crash yesterday. 3 people were on board - Anthony, Jeanot from the Virunga Foundation who suffered fractures, and a third who was not injured and is in good health. Emmanuel De Merode was not in the plane. This took place yesterday at the Aérodrom URARA/VILLAGE DE BULONGO / SECTEUR RWENZORI / TERRITOIRE DE BENI".

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