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Don’t Want to Fly on a Boeing Plane? There’s a Kayak Filter for That

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Photo: Carlos Yudica (Shutterstock) Kayak has a lot of neat features that make traveling easy, including one that allows you to filter out a certain type of plane that ripped a little boy’s shirt off when its door blew out 16,000 feet in the air. That feature has seen a 15-fold increase in usage since … Read more

Boeing 747 Engine Combustion Causes Emergency Landing in Miami

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Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP (Getty Images) Boeing, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company’s planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 cargo … Read more