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  2. Flight tracking - Wikipedia

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    Flight tracking enables travellers as well as those picking up travellers after a flight to know whether a flight has landed or is on schedule, for example to determine whether it is time to go to the airport. Aircraft carry ADS-B transponders, which transmit information such as the aircraft ID, GPS position, and altitude as radio signals.

  3. List of airline codes (S) - Wikipedia

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    Status-Alpha Airline: STATUS-ALPHA Ukraine STC Stadium City Limited: STADIUM United Kingdom STD Servicios De Aerotransportacion De Aguascalientes: AERO AGUASCALINETES Mexico STE Semitool Europe: SEMITRANS United Kingdom STF SFT-Sudanese Flight: Sudan STG Sedalia, Marshall, Boonville Stage Line: STAGE United States STH South-Airlines: Armenia ...

  4. FlightAware - Wikipedia

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    Functionality includes flight status, airline data, maps, and push call-backs. AeroAPI can be accessed via Representational state transfer or Simple Object Access Protocol and the API can be accessed from any programming language that supports JSON or XML , including Python , Ruby , Java , Tcl , Perl , ASP , and other languages.

  5. Departure control system - Wikipedia

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    A DCS is used to update reservations, typically as checked-in, boarded, flown or another status. Additionally and increasingly, a DCS for some city-pair sectors may also interface with immigration control (such as Advance Passenger Information System) for visa, immigration and passenger no-fly watchlists.

  6. Man Shares Heartbreaking Final Text He Received from Wife ...

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    A man whose wife was on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. has revealed the final text he received from her before the crash. On ...

  7. Automated Flight Following - Wikipedia

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    Automated Flight Following (AFF) is GPS aircraft tracking that is mandated by a government agency (or other governing body) for its contractors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The following criteria must be met: The GPS device must transmit position reports every two minutes;

  8. 1968 Kadena Air Base B-52 crash - Wikipedia

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    The fire resulting from the aborted takeoff ignited the aircraft's fuel and detonated the 30,000-pound (13,600 kg) bomb load of twenty-four 500 lb (230 kg) bombs, (twelve under each wing) and forty two 750 lb (340 kg) bombs inside the bomb bay and caused a blast so powerful that it created an immense crater under the burning aircraft some thirty feet (9 m) deep and sixty feet (18 m) across.

  9. Southwest Airlines - Wikipedia

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    Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways, and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...