There is a reason why flying is one of the safest ways to travel. Planes are simply reliable. But they aren't able to fly for decades straight without regularly scheduled maintenance.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - An EgyptAir flight to China was forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan on Wednesday after the airline received a call claiming that there was a bomb on board, two Egyptian aviation officials said.
They said the plane, which was carrying 118 passengers, had been evacuated and searched. No explosives were found, they said.
"The plane is preparing to resume its journey. It was a hoax, thank God," said one of the officials.
EgyptAir has received a number of bomb threats since one of its aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean on May 19. All have turned out to be hoaxes.
(Reporting by Lin Noueihed; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
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Two Swiss pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, are flying a solar-powered plane around the world to promote clean technologies.
It's the first-ever attempt to fly around the world in a plane completely powered by the sun, and these two pilots are almost on the last leg of their trip.
The pilots landed their plane, called Solar Impulse 2, in New York over the weekend, completing their journey across the US. Next, they will take off for Europe, then to Abu Dhabi, which is where they will complete their around-the-world voyage.
Tech Insider recently spoke with both Piccard and Borschberg to learn more about the project, their journey, and the kind of impact they're hoping to have on the world.
Piccard said it was during his time in the air he came up with the idea of traveling around the world without having to use any fuel at all.
"It was 20 days in the air nonstop in the balloon, but every day I had to burn some propane gas in order to keep the balloon airborne and every day I was seeing the results going down, down, down, and the wind was quite slow and I thought if we burn all the fuel we won’t succeed," he said.
"And I started to dream about ways to stay in the air forever. And I started to think, 'can we fly with no fuel?' Flying without fuel, that would be fantastic."
In 2002, Piccard presented his idea to travel the world in a solar-powered plane to the Swiss Institute of Technology. The institute tasked Borschberg, a pilot and engineer, to lead a feasibility study.
It didn't take long for Borschberg and Piccard to become friends and move forward with the project.
"When I first heard the idea, I thought it was fantastic, just fantastic. Maybe a little bit crazy, but I really thought it was something we had to try to do," Borschberg told Tech Insider.
"Of course I did not know if it was feasible or not, but I sensed that it was within reach of what could be done."
Borschberg put together the technical team and Piccard found the partners to help back the project. It took some 15 years for Piccard to raise the $170 million needed for the project.
"It’s not just a question of protecting the environment, because if you want to protect the environment and it’s expensive, it will never work, nobody will care about it... But as soon as you have clean technologies that are more energy-efficient, more modern — that allow you to save energy, allow you to create jobs, to make profits for the benefit of everyone — then you can create enthusiasm," he said.
Piccard said he has used the solar-powered plane as way to showcase what's possible with clean technology. This helped him attract partners that would eventually help fund his dream.
"I started to create this enthusiasm with the partners who funded this project because they saw in this project the possibility to develop new products and bring them on the market," he said. "This is exactly what is happening now."
Two tiny vehicles have set off to rescue scientists from the most remote human settlement in the galaxy.
We're not referring to the International Space Station, or some secret military installation on the far side of the moon. (Sorry, B-movie fans.) In fact, if the rescue had to happen in space it would be easier; a Soyuz strapped to the side of ISS stands ready to ferry astronauts back to Earth on a moment's notice.
The vehicles are airplanes, and they're headed for Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It's a facility deep inside the Antarctic continent that houses about 50 researchers and other staff through long winters, and it lies within a few dozen feet of the geographic South Pole.
First built in 1956 and expanded significantly since then, the research station is essentially unreachable in winter. (In the southern hemisphere, winter begins in June and ends in August.) Scientists there conduct research on the climate and the universe, taking advantage of unique conditions in Antarctica's harsh environment.
As writer Sarah Kaplan at The Washington Post reports, the 10-hour flight across Antarctica subjects pilots and their planes to conditions unheard-of anywhere else on earth. Temperatures drop as low as -81 degrees Fahrenheit, and rarely rise above the mid -70s. That's not only cold enough to kill a person, but also to turn jet fuel into goopy, unusable gel that can wreck engines. If something does go wrong, pilots have to land on unknown terrain in pitch darkness — because, oh yeah, the sun does not rise during the Antarctic winter.
Until 15 years ago, no one tried to reach Amundsen-Scott in the winter. And as recently as 1999, a doctor trapped at the base with a lump in her breast opted to treat herself, The Post reports. She biopsied her own tissue, using ice for an aesthetic, then self-administered chemotherapy.
Rescue planes didn't arrive until October, when the pole began to warm. And even that was considered dangerous.
But now a Lockheed Martin contractor at the base has gotten sick, and for only the third time in the last two decades a midwinter rescue mission has launched. We don't know the details of the illness — medical-privacy laws prohibit sharing that information without consent — but given the risks of a rescue, it must be severe.
Two winter-proofed Canadian Twin Otter bush planes — the only planes in the world that can operate at all in winter at the South Pole — are making their way down to the Southern Hemisphere. (You can track their progress here.)
Twin Otters are sturdy, light, and simple, and can carry enough warmed fuel to make the flight. Each has a pilot, copilot, engineer, and medic on board.
Once they reach Adelaide Island, on a northern peninsula of Antarctica a few hours south of Argentina, one plane will take off again into the polar murk. The other will remain behind, prepared to search for and rescue the first crew if something goes wrong.
The Post's riveting account of the first such Twin Otter rescue, from back in 2001, gives us some idea of what this mission will look like:
After hours of flying in darkness, [Alberta bush pilot Sean] Loutitt and his crew finally glimpsed a glimmer of light below them: Barrels of gasoline were burning along the makeshift runway the South Pole station workers had prepared. They'd reached the bottom of Earth.
The replacement doctor for the station disembarked, and the ailing Shemenski clambered onto the plane. But as they started up the engines, the crew realized they couldn't take off. The Twin Otter's skis had stuck to the ice beneath them, and the grease on the wing flaps had frozen them in the fully extended position. While the station workers hacked at the ice on the skis, the plane's mechanic jerry-rigged the controls to allow it to take off. It was one of the longest, slowest take-offs any of them had ever attempted, but eventually, they were in the air.
The journey back to Rothera was unlike anything Shemenski had experienced.
"During the initial part when you’re in the darkness it's hardly a sensation of moving at all because you can't see anything," he recalled. "Everything's black."
But then a thin line of pink appeared — sunlight on the horizon.
Both that Twin Otter mission and another launched in 2003 were successful. But this new mission is the first time anyone has tried to reach the station in winter since then.
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After more than a decade of development, China's first homegrown airliner has officially entered commercial service.
The production Comac ARJ21-700 operated by Chengdu Airlines completed its first revenue flight on Tuesday. According to AP, the ARJ entered service with a two-hour flight from Chengdu to Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport.
The ARJ21-700, from China's government-owned aircraft manufacturer, Comac, is designed to compete with offerings from Western airplane makers.
"The first flight of the ARJ21 marks the beginning of commercial, or passenger, operations for the ARJ21 and signifies the first time a domestically made regional jet has been used by a Chinese airline,"COMAC chairman Jin Zhuanglong told the AP.
First test-flown in 2008, the ARJ21-700 has overcome a series of design setbacks and production delays. Whether the ARJ21 will become a truly effective passenger carrier remains to be seen, but it will definitely force the competition to take notice.
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The days of waiting in a crammed airline aisle while some guy struggles to pull his bag from the overhead could soon be over. Molon Labe Seating has released their design for Side-slip seats, airline seats that compact and slide over each-other to add more room to the aisle during boarding and exiting. By just replacing the seats, airlines could turnaround planes faster, which could make travel time more efficient and airline tickets less expensive.
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Warner Bros. just released the first trailer for the Clint Eastwood-directed "Sully," which tells the story of US Airways captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. The pilot performed a heroic feat that became known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" after he saved the lives of more than 150 people by landing a damaged plane in the Hudson river after a flock of birds flew into its engines, causing them to fail.
The movie stars Tom Hanks in the titular role, and it promises to garner Oscar buzz for the two-time Academy Award-winner. "Sully" is scheduled for release on September 9th, 2016.
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No one is really sure why, but ever since ginger ale and airplanes have both been around, they've gone hand in hand. I can't remember why I first ordered ginger ale on a plane as a kid, but since then, the only other drinks I order on planes now are packed to the brim with booze. Some people still have a fear of flying.
Redditor muki_mono began a revolution when she asked the world of Reddit for their thoughts. "I always see people drinking ginger ale on planes, but almost never off them. I drink the same thing on planes than I do on solid ground, and it's not ginger ale, but I keep feeling like there's something everyone else is in on and I'm not."
As you can imagine, the thread erupted with a barrage of epiphanies, explanations and assumptions, all entertaining or informative. One Redditor referred to ginger ale as "magic sky juice," while another pondered on the relativity of ginger ale, simply stating, "it's just sort of...tradition."
Most people believed that it helps settle an upset stomach, and frankly, I tend to agree with them. It's settled my stomach more than once, especially as a child. That being said, there were some people slightly more qualified than your average Redditor who have a different opinion.
Sherry Ross, M.D., from Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, believes that, "It’s not the ginger providing the relief. . . You’re buying into the power of suggestion. We’ve learned from our mothers and grandmothers, who brought us ginger ale and chicken-noodle soup when we were sick as kids, that ginger ale works. . .Those types of foods have powerful messaging to our brains and that alone makes us feel better.”
As it turns out, it's not the ginger in ginger ale that makes us feel better, but rather it's a combination of nostalgia and a placebo effect.
I'm still getting ginger ale on every plane I board 'til the day I die.
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America's infrastructure touches greater than $16 trillion in goods and services every year. But decades of neglect have put America's future at risk.
Our flood-prevention systems fail too often. Our commutes take too long. Domestic travel is miserable. Our freight system can't move cargo around smoothly. America used to have the best infrastructure in the world, but now we're falling behind. Why is that? And what can be done?
In this special report, Business Insider's Andrew Stern travels by plane, train, and automobile to talk to civil engineers, freight companies, public-policy experts, and authors. The question: How did we become the United States of Disrepair? And can we fix it?
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Does your commute take too long on congested, crumbling roads? Do you find domestic travel to be miserable? Do you hate paying more for goods because our freight system can't move things around smoothly? Or perhaps worse, are you tired of watching news reports of floods engulfing our great cities?
America's infrastructure touches greater than $16 trillion in goods and services every year. But decades of neglect have put America's future at risk.
In this special report, Business Insider's Andrew Stern travels by plane, train, and automobile to talk to civil engineers, freight companies, public-policy experts, and authors. The question: How did we become the United States of Disrepair? And can we fix it?
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It's peak summer, which means people are going on vacation or hastily making last-minute travel plans. Luckily, there's a trove of tools you can use to make the most out of your trip by saving money, finding better places to stay, or by finding great things to do without breaking the bank.
Here are some of the best.
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Flight search engines help by aggregating multiple airlines' flight prices based off the dates you choose.
So instead of going to your regular airliner's website and booking it directly, you can use any of these sites — preferably all of them — to shop around for the best deal.
Here are the sites I always check:
ITA Matrix, Google Flights, Momondo, Hipmunk, JetRadar, SkyScanner.
If you can't find the right price for your flight out, you can get notified when a flight hits historical lows. If you've planned your trip dates out months in advance, Airfare Watchdog will notify you when your fares dip.
Google Flights also does the same thing — when you select your dates and destination, you can "save" the flight and track it in a graph. You'll receive an email if the price dips.
How far in advance should you book? 54 days is the average, but that's not always the case. Avoid booking too much earlier, and absolutely don't book at the last minute.
Wikivoyage is a trove of information on how to get around and what to see. If you're looking for things to do beyond the most obvious tourist attractions, this Wiki will have plenty of suggestions on things to see, eat, and do.
Taking a long trip can occasionally feel like playing Russian Roulette with my body. Sometimes I recover quickly and barely seem to notice the time difference, and other times I'm exhausted for days.
No matter how long it lasts, jet lag is never fun, and researchers still haven't found a "cure" for the bothersome side-effect.
But they have uncovered a new piece of the puzzle about what causes jet lag — and it could help ease the pain of your next globe trot.
It turns out that our internal clocks are a bit laggy — they run a tad longer than 24 hours. That makes westward travel easier, since it involves simply adjusting to a slightly longer day. Traveling east, on the other hand, is much tougher for the body to handle. So what's the best way to help convince your internal time-keeper (local time: confused o'clock) to run on the same schedule as your external clock, or the local time at your destination? Sunlight.
To get a closer look at what's going on in our bodies when we travel, scientists recently experimented with the "master clock" cells, located deep inside the brain, that play a role in helping our bodies keep track of time.
What they found confirmed what several studies have suggested for years: molecules on these cells interact with other molecules throughout the body to keep our biological clocks running smoothly. Several genes (along with the proteins they make) also play a role in keeping these internal clocks ticking.
But how do these molecules know what time it is? They get information from our environment, including how light or dark our surroundings are. The lighter and brighter it is, the earlier it is; the darker it is, the later it is.
When we travel long distances, our bodies don't get the input they need to tell time. That confuses our internal clocks, which also tend to run a few minutes longer than 24 hours. Put these two factors together — no daylight cues + laggy internal clocks — and you've got a recipe for jet lag.
But it turns out that jet lag is much worse for one kind of trip: those that involve traveling east. Why? Because when we travel east, we have to set our (slow) internal clocks earlier and cut our days short. Conversely, when we travel west, we simply set them later and deal with a slightly longer day. Studies suggest that we can convince our internal clocks it's about two hours later each day but we can only convince them it's about 1 to 1.5 hours earlier each day.
While 30 minutes to an hour may not seem like much, it can have some pretty big effects if you're crossing multiple time zones.
That's why the best way to address the problem and make your jet lag misery as brief as possible involves matching your biological clock to the local time of your destination as quickly as possible. One of the best ways to do this is to get lots of sunlight in your destination, which tells your body it's time to stay awake! "Natural light exposure is the ideal mechanism for counteracting jet lag," the authors of a 2011 study in the journal Pharmacy and Therapeutics write.
This can be tough to do when you get off a long flight mid-day and feel exhausted, but the effects will probably be worth it. If you're in a new place, try exploring by taking a walk outside. If your traveling for work, take your work where it's sunny. Your body will thank you.
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"Girl, I LOVE your boots!" a flight attendant recently said to me on a New York to Los Angeles flight. I was wearing heeled, over-the-knee boots, mainly because I couldn't fit them in my carry-on.
He then touched me on the arm, looked me in the eyes, and said earnestly, "Thank you for dressing up. It means a lot to us flight attendants, and no one does that anymore."
If that isn't enough of a reason to ditch those sweatpants when flying, I don’t know what is.
Of course, these days dressing up for a flight doesn't automatically mean you'll get an upgrade — too many loyalty programs, the frequency of overbooking — but that's no excuse for dressing like a college kid late for their Monday-morning class.
I get it, flights are long, seats are uncomfortable. You want to wear something flexible and not sit on buttons for eight hours. You think that because you're no longer getting chateaubriand carved seat-side, you shouldn't have to bother wearing anything formfitting. You feel like you're being treated in an undignified manner, so you should be free to dress that way.
But there's a difference between looking sloppy and being comfortable — you can look put-together and still be cozy.
Here are four reasons why you should dress up on a flight:
These days, most flights are overbooked, but in the rare instance that they aren't, being better dressed than all the other schlubs will give you an edge.
When AirFareWatchdog.com founder George Hobica asked a gate agent directly whether they'd be more likely to upgrade someone who was dressed well, the answer was, "Yes, the better dressed you are, the more likely you are to nab that seat. I am not going to put someone wearing flip-flops up front with our best customers."
If you're bringing sweats and schlubby clothes that you don't plan on wearing again on your trip, you're wasting precious suitcase space.
Wearing heavier items like boots and a sweater is not only a space saver, but practical: You can plan other outfits around those items, and thus have more ensembles while packing fewer clothes.
Besides never knowing who you might meet on a plane, you'll feel better about yourself once you land — ever landed in Europe wearing Crocs? You're also taking a step toward making flying a special occasion again — and you can't tell me that travel isn't a cause for celebration.
Planes are their workplace. No one wants to wait on someone in basketball shorts and dirty flip-flops.
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Everyone loves complaining about air travel — the food is bad, the space too cramped — but, surprisingly, food doesn't feature in the top 10 pet peeves at all, and legroom barely cracks the top five.
Busbud.com surveyed over 2,000 American travelers to come up with a list of the 10 things that annoys them the most when traveling by plane.
Some interesting takeaways: fliers would rather deal with a dirty bathroom than accept the lack of legroom, and they are more concerned with fellow passengers' body odor than them reclining their seats too much.
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As soon as the word "cheap" is attached to the word "airline," people get nervous.
It's understandable — America's budget airline companies tend to get horrible reviews for everything from last-minute cancellations to relentless nickle-and-diming.
So when I tell friends and relatives that I regularly fly cheap airlines when I travel around Europe, I am prepared for their immediate concern. "What do you mean that your round-trip flight from Edinburgh to Rome only cost you $100?" they ask, terrified at the thought of all of the shortcuts the airline must be making to keep prices so low. "Is that even safe?"
In all of my experiences flying with low-cost European providers — notably, Ryanair and EasyJet — I have (usually) been pleasantly surprised. Here are some of the things that shocked me the most.
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The distance from New York to Miami is about the same as the distance from London to Madrid, but, in my experience, tickets for the latter trip on Europe's budget airlines will almost always be cheaper. For comparison's sake, I looked up round-trip flights to both places on the same dates in August.
According to my searches on Google Flights, the trip from New York to Miami cost around $230 at the cheapest, while the flight from London to Madrid was only $121 — almost half the price. The difference in airfare makes even less sense when you think of the fact that London and Madrid are in two different countries, while New York and Miami are both in the US.
You really see a diverse crowd on Ryanair and Easyjet planes — I was surprised to notice a fair amount of well-dressed businessmen and families among the groups of traveling students that I was anticipating. I guess that if the flights are reliable and cheap, why would you go with anyone else?
I've taken more than 10 trips with budget European airlines, and I can confidently say that I have not run into a single delay or cancellation. I have always arrived at my destinations with spectacular punctuality, which is pretty impressive.
Of course, unexpected situations do arise— Ryanair's cancellation policy allows you to change flights up to 4 hours before flight departure time (with a pretty standard fee that varies depending on the circumstances), and a cancellation or significant delay on their part guarantees the passenger a full refund.
So far, though, I've gotten pretty lucky, and haven't had to deal with any travel hangups that weren't my own fault. When I have missed an occasional flight or had to change plans, Ryanair and EasyJet staff have always been helpful and attentive.
It's okay if you're skeptical about new innovations these days — with the way many products are marketed, it's hard to believe any one will actually change your life. But many successful inventions endured plenty of public ridicule before becoming wildly popular. And today we can't live without them.
Here are a few that were mocked initially, but remain useful today.
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Thomas Edison is revered by many schoolchildren as the father of invention. More precisely, he was present at the invention of many things we use today, for which he filed lots of patents: 1,093 in the US alone.
When the news got out that Edison was developing the first practical electric light bulb, not everyone was impressed.
A British Parliament Committee noted in 1878 that Edison's light bulb was "good enough for our Transatlantic friends... but unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men."
Similarly, a chief engineer for the British Post Office said that the "subdivision of the electric light is an absolute ignis fatuus." In other words, a fairy tale. A sham.
Coffee was first popularly used by Sufi Muslims to stay awake during their nighttime devotions.
When the drink was introduced to the public in the Middle East, it was a miracle — people were finding more time in their day to create, discuss, and spread ideas.
But throughout the 1500s, different schools of thought began to shun coffee for various reasons — the drink was thought to induce a form of drunkenness, and coffeehouses were considered meeting centers for reactionaries. Some even suggested it was causing common diseases.
Today, coffee might be making our lives longer and the world's most valuable coffee company is even spiking our drinks with gases. We've come a long way.
The Wright Brothers made headlines when they flew the first airplane in 1903. The flight lasted for some 12 seconds.
In 1911, Ferdinand Foch, a French general and Allied Commander during World War I, said, "Airplanes are interesting scientific toys, but they are of no military value."
A mere eight years after Foch said that, a Curtiss seaplane made the first trip across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Portugal. UAVs (aka drones), while not planes, wouldn't be the same without the proven success of military planes.
DUBAI (Reuters) - An Emirates Airline flight from India caught fire after making an emergency landing at Dubai International Airport on Wednesday, but all 300 passengers and crew escaped from the burning fuselage, authorities said.
Video purportedly showed a tower of flame bursting from the front of the aircraft, and then a thick black plume of smoke rising into the sky. Reuters was unable to verify the footage independently.
Photographs posted on social media showed a plane lying crumpled on its belly on the tarmac with black smoke pouring from its upper section.
A spokesperson for operator Dubai Airports said all passengers and crew aboard flight EK521 coming from Thiruvananthapuram had been evacuated and emergency services were managing the situation.
A man waiting for relatives who were on the flight said he had spoken to them by phone. "They said they're safe and alright, but that they felt a great panic as the plane was on fire. I'll be comfortable when I see they are safe."
Another man said his family had also told him they were OK and there had been a problem with the landing gear.
Operator Dubai Airports said all arrivals and departures at Dubai International had been suspended until further notice and an update on the status of operations at the airport would be issued at 5 p.m. (1300 GMT).
The live arrivals page on Dubai Airports' website showed that no flights had arrived or landed at any of the airport's three terminals since about the time of the incident at 0845 GMT.
According to air traffic control recordings cited by Aviation Herald, a respected independent website specializing in information on air accidents, controllers at Dubai had reminded the crew of the Boeing 777 to lower the landing gear as it came into approach.
Shortly afterwards, the crew announced they were aborting the landing to "go around," a routine procedure for which pilots are well trained, but the aircraft came to rest near the end of the runway instead, Aviation Herald reported.
There was no immediate confirmation on whether the landing gear was extended when the aircraft touched the ground.
Emirates Airline initially said there had been a total of 275 passengers and crew aboard the plane, a Boeing 777-300 delivered to the airline in 2003, but later updated that number to 282 passengers and 18 crew.
Planemaker Boeing said in a statement it was monitoring the situation in Dubai and it would be working with Emirates to gather more information.
(Reporting by Noah Browning, Hadeel al Sayegh, David French, Tim Hepher, Writing by William Maclean; Editing by Richard Balmforth and Andrew Heavens)
