Plane Crashes in Indonesia – A passenger plane in Indonesia has crashed due to bad weather killing all 27 passengers on board. Herry Bakti Singayuda, director general of air transportation, said the Chinese-made Xian MA60 twin turboprop plane went down just before landing in Kaimana. The flight, operated by state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines, originated in [...]
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Qantas Airways Still Checking A380 Engines – Qantas Airways is reviewing the way it operates its A380 planes after last week’s engine blowout, a source said on Tuesday, amid reports that it worked its Rolls-Royce engines harder than other airlines. The Australian carrier operates its A380 engines at higher thrust levels, which could result in [...]
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Indonesia’s Coral Reefs Dying – The Wildlife Conservation Society deployed marine biologists to Aceh province, on the tip of Sumatra island, in May when surface waters in the Andaman Sea peaked at 93 degrees Fahrenheit (34 degrees Celsius) — a 7 degree Fahrenheit (4 degree Celsius) rise over Though the scientists have yet to submit [...]
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A 6.4 magnitude quake was followed 10 minutes later by a 7.0 magnitude quake, USGS said. A third quake struck a little later, with a magnitude of 6.3. Indonesia’s meteorological agency said the quakes occurred 114 kilometers (70.84 miles) southeast of Biak, in Papua, at a depth of 10 kilometers, and issued a tsunami warning [...]
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Australia To London For $378 – Some aviation analysts’s predictions that air fares would rise this year as airlines seek to recover losses incurred during the global financial crisis, along with service interruptions from incidents such as Iceland’s volcanic eruption, appear to be wrong. AirAsia is the latest carrier to offer one-way fares from Australia [...]
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