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Resumption of the search for the flight recorders from crashed Air France flight AF447 has been delayed, but French investigators expect a US detection vessel to arrive in Brazil next week. The Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses states that the vessel, the Anne Candies, is predicted to reach Recife around 24 March. Its departure for the scene had been held up by "administrative and technical difficulties", says the BEA, as well as poor weather conditions. Recovery teams are planning to use deep-water search equipment in a bid to find the wreckage of the Airbus A330 which came down in the South...

Last month, a Russian Il-76 transport crashed after taking off from a Siberian airport. The aircraft had just unloaded a cargo. This accident was no surprise, in general, because of growing problems with the aging Il-76 fleet. For example, a month ago, all Il-76s were grounded because the engine fell off one of them while it was preparing to takeoff. All Russian Il-76s remained grounded until recently, when it was determined that the problem was not common to all Il-76s. The recent crash led to another mass grounding, and growing unease among the many foreign nations that use the Il-76.....

Denver-based organization says pot is safer than alcoholOne pro-marijuana group is calling on the government to allow marijuana in smoking lounges at airports across the country. Cigarette smoking at Denver International Airport and other airports across the country is restricted to smoking lounges. Members of the Denver-based organization Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) will ask the government Tuesday to allow pot in airport smoking lounges.

With China cooperating, missile sanctions tighten August 05, 2006 - In the aftermath of last month's launch of missiles by North Korea, China and other countries in the central Asian region are tightening the noose around potential air routes that could be used by Pyongyang to export its missile technology, a United States government official said yesterday. In an exclusive interview with the JoongAng Ilbo, the official said, on the condition of anonymity, that in June last year an Iranian plane that had landed in the North and loaded North Korean missile parts had to unload and head back to...

Among the many differences between the people above this text and those below it is a U.S. visa difference. The folks above are all Polish. To visit the USA, they need to apply for and receive a visitor's visa. This process involves an application, application fees, passport mailing fees, queuing for interviews, interviews, fbi database check, fingerprinting, and the possibility of refusal. The folks below this text live in Britain. Those among them who hold British passports, probably the vast majority of the teens and twenty-somethings among them, need no U.S. visa to enter our homeland. They need only...

...Aviation experts were perplexed, saying it was rare for a plane to crash because of depressurization. "Although there are precedents for both pilots losing consciousness at the controls of the aircraft in the past, for it to happen on a large airliner like a Boeing 737, with all the backup systems they have there, does seem to be really quite extraordinary," said Kieran Daly, editor of Air Transport Intelligence.... Airliners are pressurized by a system that draws air from the engines, which compress air for internal use. A valve at the back of the plane determines how fast air is...