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ALERT More: Helicopters airlifting students out 3 at a time from snow-filled parking lots near northern rim of Grand Canyon – @CBS5AZ

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ALERT British Airways flight #BA219 departs for Denver 8 hours late at 20:22 instead of scheduled 12:20

VIDEO @icelandair shows us the inside of its “Hekla Aurora”

Icelandair has introduced a video of the unique cabin “Northern Lights” lighting of its Boeing 757-200 TF-FIU.  Description by Icelandair: “Grab a seat on board Hekla Aurora, Icelandair’s new airplane celebrating the northern lights. When you take an Icelandair Stopover on your next trip across the Atlantic, you might be lucky enough to see this natural…

NEWS Virgin Atlantic moves up the date of the last A340-300 flight to 29th March on flight VS251 from Shanghai to Heathrow – @airlineroute

ALERT 2 Turkish warplanes crash in central province of Malatya, killing 1, security sources say – @Reuters

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NEWS FAA investigating near miss on O'Hare runway last week

Whoops.. Can’t imagine what could be wrong with turning on to an active runway without permission… Link

NEWS Airbus Prepares Handover Of Second A350 This Week

Airbus is preparing the second A350-900 for delivery to Qatar Airways later this week. Link

ALERT Lenders take over key property of India's grounded Kingfisher Airlines – @ReutersIndia

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ALERT VIDEO A FedEx cargo MD-11 just made an emergency landing at Lambert (St Louis)

NEWS Etihad Airways welcomes AeroMobile to A380 era

AeroMobile has celebrated the first Airbus A380 to be fully line-fitted with its inflight mobile phone network. The Etihad Airways A380-800 (A6-APA) aircraft’s inaugural flight with AeroMobile services was from Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow, touching down on earlier.