Notwithstanding acknowledgement of ATC instructions to line-up and wait (LUAW)—taxi into position and hold to those of us who remember a more elegant time—the flight-crew of a Bombardier Learjet 60 (LR60) operating as Hop-a-Jet Flight 280 departed Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) without clearance, thereby precipitating a conflict/near-collision with an Embraer E190 jet operating as JetBlue Flight 206. The Embraer, then inbound from Tennessee’s Nashville International Airport (BNA), was forced to perform a go-around.
Belarusian Air Carrier Deemed Guilty by Association
The United States Department of the Treasury has levied additional wartime sanctions against the Eastern European nation of Belarus, to include measures directed against Belarusian state-owned air-carrier Belavia Airlines and, bizarrely, one of its CRJ-200ER regional aircraft.
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