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  • Thumbnail for Northwest Airlines Flight 255
    August 16, 1987 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about...
    35 KB (3,151 words) - 14:35, 4 May 2024
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    The Flight of the Earls (Irish: Imeacht na nIarlaí) took place in September 1607, when Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of...
    27 KB (3,572 words) - 14:40, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Delta Air Lines Flight 1141
    Lines Flight 1141 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah. On August 31, 1988, the flight, using...
    24 KB (2,584 words) - 22:24, 1 May 2024
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    D. B. Cooper (redirect from Flight 305)
    Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon, to...
    215 KB (24,230 words) - 14:31, 10 May 2024
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    considered a nuisance by many motorists, especially in Florida, due to its swarming behavior during the species' mating season. Localized lovebug flights can number...
    12 KB (1,569 words) - 00:30, 11 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Air Inter Flight 148
    Air Inter Flight 148 (officially Flight 5148) was a scheduled passenger flight from Lyon Satolas Airport to Strasbourg Airport in France. On 20 January...
    13 KB (1,329 words) - 16:06, 23 April 2024
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    supersonic flight over land. Although they cannot be completely prevented, research suggests that with careful shaping of the vehicle the nuisance due to...
    31 KB (3,981 words) - 17:31, 6 March 2024
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    these small UAVs, whether they are used by hobbyists causing a bit of a nuisance or in a more sinister manner by a terrorist actor". The malicious use of...
    137 KB (12,678 words) - 13:11, 8 May 2024
  • physical, with indirect interference instead being covered by negligence or nuisance. "Interference" covers any physical entry to land, as well as the abuse...
    33 KB (4,551 words) - 05:04, 7 April 2024
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    supersonic flight overland. Although they cannot be completely prevented, research suggests that with careful shaping of the vehicle, the nuisance due to...
    28 KB (3,633 words) - 17:08, 27 April 2024
  • Phugoid (category Flight control systems)
    the importance of proper trimming. When it occurs, it is considered a nuisance, and in lighter airplanes (typically showing a shorter period) it can be...
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    Altering flight paths and time of day runway has benefited residents near airports. Up until the 1970s governments tended to view noise as a "nuisance" rather...
    100 KB (11,202 words) - 11:51, 16 April 2024
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    Natural Resources recommends several non-lethal scare and hazing tactics for nuisance geese, but if such methods have been used without success, they may issue...
    61 KB (6,724 words) - 19:37, 2 May 2024
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    to have been met based on only three aircraft and 1,500 hours flown; "nuisance messages" from the integrated avionics suite and engine start-up delays...
    198 KB (17,655 words) - 14:13, 7 May 2024
  • An annoyance factor (or nuisance or irritation factor), in advertising and brand management, is a variable used to measure consumers' perception level...
    42 KB (2,983 words) - 18:58, 18 March 2024
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    Fly (section Flight)
    river blindness; sand flies carry leishmaniasis. Other dipterans are a nuisance to humans, especially when present in large numbers; these include houseflies...
    86 KB (9,425 words) - 13:34, 20 April 2024
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    allocated to one runway and takeoffs to the other. To further reduce noise nuisance, the use of runways 27R and 27L is swapped at 15:00 each day if the wind...
    165 KB (13,536 words) - 20:49, 10 May 2024
  • AT&T has suggested that in-flight mobile phone restrictions should remain in place in the interests of reducing the nuisance to other passengers caused...
    31 KB (3,525 words) - 20:41, 2 May 2024
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    environment. The lift and propulsion systems must be quiet enough not to cause a nuisance, and must not create excessive pollution. For example, pollution emissions...
    56 KB (5,816 words) - 11:29, 22 April 2024
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    Terrorism Act, for conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause public nuisance by using poisons or explosives. On 24 July 2012, an 11-year-old boy went...
    108 KB (8,756 words) - 09:58, 10 May 2024
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