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Small plane slides off Salt Lake airport runway

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 4:43pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Officials say a small plane slid off the runway at Salt Lake City International Airport, but no injuries have been reported.

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2nd man dies after West Jordan small plane crash

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 8:54am

WEST JORDAN -- Authorities say a second man has died after a small kit-built airplane crashed in a soccer field just south of a West Jordan airport.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) A racy emblem adorns a B-17 bomber at Ogden-Hinckley Airport on Monday.

They're the BOMBers: WWII history on display in Ogden

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, September 19, 2011 - 11:26pm

OGDEN -- Phil Cordova has spent his entire life around planes, but even he was struck by the history of the two on display in Ogden. On Monday, two restored World War II bombers, the B-17 Flying Fortress "Sentimental Journey" and B-25 Mitchell "Maid in the Shade," flew into Ogden-Hinckley Airport and will remain on display from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily until Monday.

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(WARD HOWES/The Associated Press) A P-51 Mustang airplane crashes into the edge of the grandstands at the Reno air show on Friday in Nevada. The World War II-era fighter plane flown by veteran Hollywood stunt pilot Jimmy Leeward created a horrific scene strewn with smoking debris. Bystanders describe watching bits of metal and human flesh flying through the air and bodies strewn across the ground as the injured stumbled around in a daze.

Death toll at 9 in Reno air crash

Don Thompson, Ken Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:15pm

RENO, Nev. — The death toll rose to nine Saturday in an air race crash in Reno as investigators determined that several spectators were killed on impact as the 1940s-model plane appeared to lose a piece of its tail before slamming like a missile into a crowded tarmac.

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Woman blogs that arrest after 9/11 flight was ethnic profiling

Niraj Warikoo Detroit Free Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 10:28pm

DETROIT — An Ohio woman who is half-Jewish and half-Arab says that she and two Indian Americans were detained Sunday by armed officers on an airplane at Detroit Metro Airport and then jailed and strip-searched — an incident that civil rights leaders say was one of many cases of law enforcement targeting minorities on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

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