Experts say you could get bumped by another passenger or whacked by falling luggage, making an already uncomfortable flight even worse. Here’s a guide.

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Hopefully Hiring Pilots Who Can

Aviation is looking alive in India, according to Bombay’s * Economic Times.

The corporation running Air India, National Aviation Company of India (NACIL), is hiring experienced Boeing 737 commanders, and for its Budget division (Air India Express), they are looking for experienced and inexperienced co-pilots.

In this depressed global economy, jobs are always good news. Let’s hope that NACIL’s hiring practices involve some efforts at due diligence (hiring with a certain standard of care) and result in aviation excellence, even in its budget airlines Air India Express.

Hiring is good news…as long as cutting cost in tough times does not mean cutting safety. Even travelers with modest incomes deserve to make it to their destination in one piece.

“Recruitment gathers pace in aviation sector.” Economic Times. July, 2010.

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WATCH: D.C. emergency officials give update on recovery efforts after midair plane crash

WATCH: D.C. emergency officials give update on recovery efforts after midair plane crash

No one survived Wednesday night’s collision between a commercial airliner and an Army helicopter. The remains of 41 people had been pulled from the river as of Friday afternoon, including 28 that had been positively identified, D.C. Fire Chief John Donnelly Sr. said at a news conference.

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