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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company founder Morris Chang, left, shakes hands with Nvidia Co-founder, President, and CEO Jensen Huang, right, at the TSMC facility under construction in Phoenix, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022.
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Military vehicles carry an earlier version of China’s hypersonic missile during a 2019 parade.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company founder Morris Chang, left, shakes hands with Nvidia Co-founder, President, and CEO Jensen Huang, right, at the TSMC facility under construction in Phoenix, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022.
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Dutch startup Loop Biotech's cocoon-like coffins, grown from local mushrooms and up-cycled hemp fibres, designed to dissolve into the environment amid growing demand for more sustainable burial practices, are stored in Delft, Netherlands, Monday, May 22, 2023.
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Stan Deal, President and CEO Boeing Commercial Airplanes, left, and Qatar Airways' CEO Akbar al-Baker, right, sign an agreement for the purchase of thirty-four 777-8 Freighter planes with purchase rights for an additional sixteen, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022.
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A passenger uses a laptop aboard a commercial airline flight from Boston to Atlanta on July 1, 2017. Concern about new high-speed wireless service interfering with airplanes appears to be easing. Federal safety regulators said Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 they have cleared the way for Verizon and AT&T to turn on more 5G towers.
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FAA Clears Verizon, AT&T to Turn on More 5G Towers
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AT&T, Verizon Pause Some New 5G After Airlines Raise Alarm
Airlines want the new service to be banned within two miles of airport runways.
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AT&T, Verizon Delay New 5G Service After Buttigieg Request
The announcement reversed the companies’ decision from one day earlier.
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American Airlines passenger jets prepare for departure at Boston Logan International Airport, July 21, 2021.
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American Blames Boeing Delays for Dropped Flights
Boeing has been unable to deliver its Dreamliner due to a series of manufacturing problems.
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In this Monday, March 1, 2021 file photo, The first Alaska Airlines passenger flight on a Boeing 737-9 Max airplane takes off on a flight to San Diego from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. A Boeing pilot involved in testing the 737 Max jetliner was indicted Thursday, Oct. 14,2021 by a federal grand jury on charges of deceiving safety regulators who were evaluating the plane, which was later involved in two deadly crashes.
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Former Boeing Pilot Involved in Max Testing Indicted
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Feds Say Tougher Rules Needed to Protect Texas Power Plants
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General Motors said Monday, Sept. 20, 2021 that production has resumed for battery modules used in recalled Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles, and customers could start getting replacement parts by mid-October.
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GM Says Production Starts on Replacement Batteries for Bolts
At least 13 battery fires have been reported.
September 21, 2021
Photos captured by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aircraft Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 and reviewed by The Associated Press show a miles long black slick floating in the Gulf of Mexico near a large rig marked with the name Enterprise Offshore Drilling.
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Photos Show Black Slick in Water Near Oil Rig after Ida
State and federal regulators said they had been unable to reach the stricken area.
September 2, 2021
A Spirit Airlines jet approaches Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. On Monday, Aug. 16, 2021, Spirit said the cancellation of more than 2,800 flights over an 11-day stretch this summer cost the budget airline about $50 million in lost revenue and caused spending to soar.
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Spirit Air Says Canceled Flights Cost $50M, Hurt Bookings
Spirit said it canceled 2,826 flights from July 30 through Aug. 9.
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In this May 4, 2019, file photo, a charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida sits in a river at the end of a runway in Jacksonville, Fla. Investigators say the loss of braking power on a rain-soaked flooded runway caused a cargo plane chartered by the Pentagon to slide into a Florida river in 2019, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday, AUg. 4, 2021.
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Loss of Braking Cited in 2019 Florida Plane Incident
The pilots landed too fast and waited too long to deploy speed-reducing panels.
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Stranded travelers sleep on the seats of the ticketing waiting area, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia.
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Spirit Cancels Half Its Flights; American Also Struggling
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In this Oct. 3, 2018 file photo, Gary Kelly, Chairman and CEO, Southwest Airlines Co., speaks in Detroit. Southwest said Wednesday, June 23, 2021, that Kelly will step down next February and be succeeded by Robert Jordan.
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Longtime Southwest Airlines CEO Will Step Down Next Year
Kelly will be succeeded by Robert Jordan.
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In this March 3, 2019 file photo, provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB investigators and member of the recovery team retrieve the flight data recorder of the Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 cargo jet that crashed in the muddy marshland of Trinity Bay, east of Houston. Investigators say a pilot's errors and disorientation were primary factors in causing the 2019 crash in Texas.
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NTSB: Co-Pilot to Blame for Cargo Plane Crash
“The first officer's training record was bluntly, well, terrible,” said NTSB Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg.
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