Sentences with phrase «warnings aboard the planes»

But the growth in air traffic, coupled with slipups by pilots and controllers, has sparked a spike in anticollision warnings aboard the planes, especially in dense traffic areas such as Southern California, where the number of potentially serious controller errors rose 77 percent from 2007 to 2008.

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In this incident, the plane was climbing away from Palma, Majorca, on its way to Gatwick with 284 people aboard when its TCAS 2 emitted a traffic warning as it passed through 9000 feet.

Turns out that the mysterious passenger with a rare strand of a highly drug resistant form of tuberculosis who, against warnings from various specialists, returned by plane to the United States from his European honeymoon, thus potentially exposing all passengers aboard to the illness, is a lawyer — Andrew Speaker of Georgia.