Pilot

Air India flight diverts course as pilot is locked out of cockpit

16 May 2013

An Air India flight to Bangalore was diverted to another city after the pilot returned from a toilet break and found the door to the cockpit jammed shut, the state-run carrier said on Tuesday.

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Air India suspends pilot and flight attendants after 'overstay in cockpit'

5 May 2013

The incident occurred on an Airbus flight carrying more than 160 passengers to New Delhi from Bangkok last month, and followed a series of other safety concerns involving the airline.

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Three Chengdu Airlines pilots probed for autopilot landing in bad weather

19 Apr 2013

The mainland's aviation authority is investigating three Chengdu Airlines pilots after they landed a plane using autopilot in poor weather conditions, despite warnings that that would place the...

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Egypt balloon pilot tried in vain to reach safety valve

6 Mar 2013

The pilot of the ill-fated Egyptian hot-air balloon which last week crashed and killed 19 tourists - including nine from Hong Kong - told his boss that he tried to reach the safety valves of the...

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Balloon pilot was not to blame for disaster in Egypt, say colleagues

4 Mar 2013

Egyptian balloon pilots suspect the crash was caused by faulty hardware rather than human error on the part of Moman Mourad, the 28-year-old Sky Cruise pilot who jumped from the balloon and...

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US-trained Afghan female military helicopter pilots battle sexism

31 Dec 2012

Unlike most women in Afghanistan, Sourya Saleh knows how to drive - but she's taken the wheel only with her brother beside her, out of respect for tradition. Her friend Masooma Hussaini is still...

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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More Cathay Pacific overseas base closures rumoured

Cathay Pacific's advertising motto, "People. They make an airline", might give the perception of a harmonious operation. But the airline's closure of its Paris base amid rumours of a tax scheme...

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Channel hop

They say television dramas are just life with all the boring parts edited out. By that logic, Californication must be life with all the celibacy edited out.

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Tomer Sisley

BEING LARGO I wanted to do Largo Winch because I'm very close to his character in many ways. Largo has problems with his roots; he doesn't know where he's from. I have problems with my roots. I...

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Channel hop

Musing on the origins of romance, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once wrote: 'You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer...

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Former Playboy playmate plugs her 'perfect life'

She's blond, buxom and a bit of a bimbo. Sounds perfect for an E! Channel reality show. Former Miss Sweden and Playboy playmate Victoria Silvstedt was just in town to plug her programme, My...

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channel hop

After spending most of last summer playing poster child for American television's 'newest' phenomenon, smart and sexy comedienne - she writes her own material and knows what shade of MAC...

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