Testimony Ends In Trial Of Two AmWest Pilots Accused Of Trying
To Fly Drunk
In the end, attorneys for former America West pilot Thomas Cloyd
and his copilot, Christopher Hughes, called just one witness: the
operator of a tug that pulled them from the gate before their
Airbus A319 was stopped and boarded by law officers.
Friends of the Earth (FOE) published new research from the UK
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change that claims that carbon dioxide
reduction targets for the EU and UK will be impossible to meet if
aviation grows at current rates. FOE wants the UK Government to
immediately increase passenger fees, remove fuel tax exemptions and
to pursue emissions charges with the EU.
US District Judge Ricardo Martinez did not reinstate 472 union
ramp workers who were laid off from Alaska Airlines in Seattle.
After arguments from both sides, he ultimately said that he did not
have jurisdiction over the dispute but that the airline was within
its rights to replace the workers with subcontractors.
A federal jury ordered the Little Rock National Airport (Adams
Field) to pay more than $2.1 million to Susan Buschmann, the widow
of Captain Richard Buschmann. He died after his American Airlines
jet went off the end of the runway on June 1st, 1999.
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