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Utah couple OK after plane's emergency landing

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 4:49pm

KINGMAN, Ariz. -- Northern Arizona authorities say a Utah couple escaped injury after their single-engine aircraft had to make an emergency landing.

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Flight attendant disrupts flight with intercom rant

Ashley Rueff, Gregory Karp Chicago Tribune

Last updated Friday, March 9, 2012 - 4:37pm

DALLAS -- An American Airlines flight attendant disrupted a flight Friday morning as it was about to take off from Dallas Fort/Worth en route to Chicago, saying over the aircraft intercom system that the plane was going to crash, alluding to 9/11 terrorist attacks and ranting about the airline's bankruptcy reorganization, passengers said.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) A Utah Highway Patrol helicopter takes off to search for a downed airplane in Morgan County on Friday.

Sheriff's office confirms two dead in Morgan plane crash

Michael McFall, Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 11, 2012 - 10:03am

MOUNTAIN GREEN — Daleray Madewell, 47, died doing the two things he loved: flying and helping people.

He had been flying 36-year-old Jennifer Sebesta back to Douglas, Wyo., from the Morgan County Airport after she saw her grandmother in Salt Lake City, said Doug McDuff, a friend who knew him for years.

The two were supposed to be back by Thursday evening, but McDuff said he got the news Friday morning that the Cessna 210 piloted by Madewell “had been in a very horrible crash.”

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Missing plane found; no sign of survivors

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 6:21pm

MOUNTAIN GREEN — Rescuers have located a missing Cessna 210 that disappeared Thursday night.

The plane was found 11:30 a,m., about 250 feet down a ravine, approximately nine miles northeast of the Mountain Green Airport, said Morgan CountySheriff’s Sgt. Jason Lee.

Lee said there are no indications of survivors and the operation has switched from a rescue to recovery mode.

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Morgan County sheriff, CAP search for plane

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 11:44am

MORGAN -- Law enforcement and the Civil Air Patrol were looking for an overdue and possibly downed plane Thursday night and into this morning.

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Replica Blue Angels plane makes emergency landing in St. George

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 4:54pm

ST. GEORGE -- A private pilot is safe after a plane painted to look like a U.S. Navy Blue Angel aircraft made a textbook emergency landing at the St. George Municipal Airport.

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40 years later, many still intrigued by D.B. Cooper mystery

Hal Bernton The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 2:48pm

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The passenger aboard the Northwest Orient flight from Portland to Seattle on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 wore sunglasses, a suit and a polyester black clip-on tie. He politely asked for a bourbon and 7-Up. Then, he handed the flight attendant a note declaring he had a bomb and demanding a $200,000 ransom.

Was this the beginning of a deeply flawed hijacking plan that would end with a suicidal nighttime parachute jump from the Boeing 727 jet by the man who would become known to the world as D.B. Cooper?

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U of U professor accused of viewing child porn on plane

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 28, 2011 - 9:28am

BOSTON -- A University of Utah professor who police say was viewing child pornography on his laptop during a flight from Salt Lake City to Boston faced arraignment on Monday.

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Plane crashes, explodes in Arizona, 6 feared dead

Walter Berry The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 9:26am

PHOENIX -- A small airplane with three men and three young children onboard crashed Wednesday evening into mile-high mountains east of Phoenix while going around 200 mph, the Pinal County sheriff said.

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Delta pilot gets locked in john, causing terror scare

Chris Hawley The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 3:40pm

NEW YORK -- A pilot accidentally locked himself in the bathroom aboard a flight to New York City and touched off a brief hijacking terror scare that underscored the fears about air travel that still linger more than a decade after 9/11.

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Delta plane lands safely after engine blows up

April Bethea The Charlotte Observer

Last updated Friday, November 11, 2011 - 6:49pm

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Ginger Heath and her husband were returning home Thursday from a business trip in Austin, Texas, when she says their plane started to shake violently.

The plane had just taken off from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, and hadn't been in the air more than 10 minutes.

Heath, who lives in Monroe, said she looked out the window, then heard a "huge explosion" coming from the other side of the plane.

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