Sentences with phrase «after the flight of»

«In 2010, Congress approved landmark flight safety legislation after the flight of 3407 crashed outside of Buffalo, New York in 2009.

After a flight of 10 months and 422 million miles, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander last May executed a flawless seven - minute descent through the Red Planet's thin atmosphere to touch down north of its arctic circle.

Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise — carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 — scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere.

So after the flight of your nightmares, the nasty old A train and almost freezing solid walking to our hotel, things were finally starting to look up.

After a flight of 20 hours, 40 minutes, they touched down in Wales thereby becoming the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic.

Not exact matches

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

InSight will assess «the environment of Mars,» Hewson noted, while Orion is not anticipated to make the trip to Mars until after several SLS flights.

When you're at the tail - end of a long - haul business flight, you probably start dreaming about taking a hot shower and washing off the grime that has accumulated after hours on a plane.

A passenger who survived the deadly Southwest 1380 flight filed a lawsuit against the airline carrier after an engine exploded earlier this month, killing one person on board and leading dozens of others to prepare for an untimely death.

After every 100 hours of flight, a helicopter needs to be basically torn apart and inspected.

After what had to be my tenth of multiple delays — a couple of which were 10 or more hours long (see the above flight status graphic)-- no quick fix was going to work.

After the successful maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, Musk told reporters he wants «a new space race.»

Almost two years after ending flights between Atlanta and Dubai, the CEO of Delta Air Lines says it may be time to return to the Persian Gulf countries.

The incident followed a Friday scare at JFK, in which an American Airlines flight was forced to land shortly after takeoff because of a mechanical issue.

Flooding from a water main break added to the misery of travelers after a winter storm canceled or delayed hundreds of flights in recent days.

After noticing that he got some of his best work done on long intercontinental flights, Guido established «Airplane Days» to help him get things done.

Runway operations at Dublin airport were suspended early on Wednesday with a number of flights cancelled and others diverted before the snow was cleared shortly after 0730 GMT to allow services to resume.

After passing through an over-branded jet way from HSBC, choosing in - flight content can be a trickier than a $ 19 book of puzzles from Relay.

Channel News Asia reported that a Lucky Air flight was held overnight after a 76 - year - old woman threw coins into the engine of the plane for good luck.

«The official Opposition will call on the ethics commissioner to investigate a possible conflict of interest... after a document released to the media indicated Air Canada's CEO and executive vice-president Duncan Dee apparently upgraded Raitt's flight from economy to business class — almost a $ 550 value — for free on Sept. 25....

Several months after that meeting, Peter Diamandis, a space - travel fanatic in St. Louis, announced a new competition, the X-Prize (later named the Ansari X-Prize), for the first manned, non-government-funded flight to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, and then repeat the feat with the same vehicle within two weeks.

Toronto Pearson International canceled about 30 percent of its flights, or almost 450 departures and arrivals, by 2:30 p.m., after giving a warning about the storm.

That meant that, after factoring in those taxes and fees, each Chase point we redeemed for the flight effectively got us 13.3 cents worth of first class value.

Jeff Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management, discusses United management after a dog dies in an overhead bin on one of their flights.

One passenger was killed Tuesday on a Dallas - bound Southwest flight after an engine exploded, causing shrapnel to cut into the Boeing 737 - 700's fuselage, or the body of the plane.

United Airlines made all the wrong kinds of headlines Monday after forcibly ejecting a customer from an overbooked flight.

Passengers aboard Southwest Flight 1380 had rushed to pull the victim back into the plane after she was partially sucked out of a window, witnesses said.

After video of a passenger being forcibly dragged from an overbooked flight was shared Sunday, Twitter users were quick to share hashtags like #boycottunited and #dontflyunited.

Most tragedies happen somewhere: the spot where the towers fell on 9/11, the beaches where the waves came ashore during the Asian tsunami, the sunflower fields where the pieces of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fell after it was blasted out of the Ukrainian sky last summer.

After the demise of the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003, flight times have stayed relatively constant — but Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Technology, says air travel could get a speed boost in just a few years.

The death of a rabbit on a United flight comes soon after the carrier was under scrutiny for dragging a passenger off a flight, USA Today reports.

The owners of a giant rabbit who they found dead after a United flight want the airline to pay damages and open an outside investigation, according to Reuters.

Oza's video is just the latest public relations challenge for United, which is still reeling after the forcible removal of passenger Dr. David Dao from an overbooked flight in April bought the airline global condemnation.

After many mis - steps, the maiden flight of the 158 - 174 seat aircraft was a big moment for China, economically and politically.

Donald Carty, former AMR Corp. and American Airlines Chairman & CEO, weighs in on the backlash against United after the forced removal of a passenger on an overbooked flight.

But while airlines offered some cheap flights out of south Florida after complaints, passengers said that did little good if all the flights were fully booked or canceled.

The news came after United sparked outrage earlier this week when a video surfaced of a passenger being dragged off an overbooked United Express flight.

United Airlines and CEO Oscar Munoz made some huge mistakes in their attempt at damage control after a passenger was involuntarily dragged off of a flight, says strategist Mark Macias.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports there were some tense scenes at airports this holiday weekend after a major technical problem disrupted and cancelled hundreds of flights on British Airways.

Song Chunjie, whose sister was on the plane, said in China shortly after the debris of another aircraft, AirAsia Flight 8501, was spotted in Indonesia's Java Sea in early January.

The owners of a giant rabbit named Simon who was found dead after a United Airlines flight demanded that the airline pay damages, order an outside investigation.

Carriers added flights and capped fares ahead of the storm, after travelers complained of sky - high prices.

David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue and current CEO of Azul, talks to CNBC about the PR problems facing United Airlines after a passenger was forcibly removed from one of its flights, setting off an online firestorm.

After six hours in the air and gobbling more than my fair share of free in - flight snacks, we hit the tarmac and I headed for the big show.

Dalian Wanda Group has filed at least 10 lawsuits with the Chinese courts and intends to press criminal charges against online rumor mongers, after word spread last week that Wang Jianlin, the group's founder and chairman, was removed from a flight out of China.

The survey of 5,046 travelers comes after a year when the industry was hit by several high - profile incidents where passengers clashed with flight crews.

After the violent dragging of passenger David Dao off a United flight last April, travelers have fretted about the legal practice of bumping passengers off of airplanes.

One of the most frustrating aspects of booking a flight online is finding that prices have dropped shortly after you've locked in a fare.

Major airlines are having to adapt to changes, with Ryanair, Europe's biggest budget airline, reluctantly recognizing unions last year to avert a strike, after a shortage of standby pilots forced it to cancel 20,000 flights.

The incident, coming shortly after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister Randi, a Silicon Valley executive, said via social media that she had been a victim of sexual harassment on an Alaska Airlines flight, highlights a risk to airlines: they need to do more than just respond once an incident goes public and their brand comes under fire.