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sn26567 wrote:The plane of Trump's running mate Mike Pence (an Eastern Airlines 737-700) made a runway excursion at La Guardia and is in the mud.
Report in The Aviation Herald: http://avherald.com/h?article=49ff6bcc&opt=0
" Preliminary radar data suggest the aircraft was on a normal approach profile descending through 250 feet AGL at 135 knots over ground, after touch down was still doing 132 knots over ground about 1400 meters/4600 feet past the runway threshold with about 700 meters/2300 feet of runway remaining.
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One of the comments in the Aviation Herald :

Candidate Mike Pence said he was "grateful" to the pilot. Maybe he would be less grateful if he knew how much runway was behind him when they touched down.

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Jan Van der Cruysse wins Flemish Book Award with his first thriller "Bling Bling"

Big surprise yesterday at the first day of the Boekenbeurs Antwerpen, Flanders' annual Book Fair (+150.000 visitors). The Hercule Poirot Award 2016 for the best thriller goes to Jan Van der Cruysse (56) for his first book ever: Bling Bling, a thriller (crime novel) about a diamond robbery at Delhi Airport. Some of the previous winners of the Hercule Poirot Award are successfull Flemish autors Pieter Aspe and Jef Geeraerts.

Jan Van der Cruysse was spokesman for Brussels Airport for a few decades.

http://www.davidsfonds.be/publisher/edi ... ml?id=3633

http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/cultu ... =1.2808059

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Thomas Cook Airlines UK A330 with special new livery for flights to ... (I let you guess)

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£199 return! 24 hr flash sale starts this Thursday at midday BST.
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The football team Real Madrid flew to Warsaw today with a "Royal" aircraft, worth its ambition!

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Retro uniform for last 737 flight at Lufthansa:

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Fly Kiss's first flight, from Brest to London Luton. One cannot say the load factor is anywhere near 100% !

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A stowaway on a Aéromexico ERJ-190:


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Is Luxembourg airport the only airport in the world with its own beer?

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Ground incident on 11th November at Los Angeles LAX: A China Southern A380 (reg. B-6139) with 447 passengers on board collided with a tow truck. No injuries.

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Stormy weather at Brisbane airport:

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Passenger wrote:Stormy weather at Brisbane airport
Qantas had four aircraft damaged by a storm in Brisbane on 13 November 2016. Meanwhile, a QantasLink B717 also appeared to suffer damage to its fuselage, while a Jetstar A320 looked to have been hit by a water or liquid tank and other airport ground equipment.
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sn26567 wrote:Is Luxembourg airport the only airport in the world with its own beer?
If I remember well, MUC has even a brewery!

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There's an anti terrorism police action ongoing at Rotterdam Airport. Flight operations are normal, but all traffic to the airport is checked.


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Passenger wrote:Two terrible stories - the url says it all:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/ ... -1.2872291
Unfortunatly I was manager on call for this one ... terrible tragedy :( RIP

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and the glider boys (and girls) having some fun with their Flarm transmitter during winter maintenance
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Congrats to the TUI E190 boys; after waiting more than 2 hrs. in ALC for wind improvements at ANR, just landed with winds still almost fully cross and gusts up to 35kts, and this of course on the only 1502 meters available...
One of the first (or maybe the first) to land today at EBAW.

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AMS Schiphol had about 10 go-arounds today


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at that moment, winds 40° cross, 33kts gusts 44kts (half an hour earlier gusts were even 52kts)

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