United Airlines plane from Paris to Dulles turns back due to emergency, sources tell WUSA9

The Senate passed H.R. 4217, the bill extending FAA programs and excise taxes through March 31, 2010.

The current extension expires at the end of the 2009.

The extension provides $2 billion in AIP contract authority for the first six months of the year.

H.R.4217

Title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to amend title 49, United States Code, to extend authorizations for the airport improvement program, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15](introduced 12/8/2009)

Cosponsors (6)

Latest Major Action: 12/10/2009 Passed/agreed to in Senate.

Status: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.

View text of the legislation

Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab is not the only individual who boarded a flight with unmixed chemicals (two-part concoction of the high explosive PETN and possibly a glycol-based liquid explosive,) and bad intent. On Nov 13, in Mogadishu, Somalia, African Union peacekeeping troops arrested a man carrying carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe on to a Daallo Airlines flight scheduled to go from Mogadishu to Hargeisa, to Djibouti and then to Dubai.

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Woznia announced that “87 families (of survivors) have so far gotten 40,000 zlotys ($13,800; euro10,000) each.”

Ninety-six people, including Poland’s president Lech Kaczynski and his wife leading a delegation of high Polish representatives died on the state flight on the Polish Air Force Tupolev TU-154M. The flight struck trees while attempting to land in dense fog.

On Apr 11th, the flight data recorders were taken to a special lab, opened in the presence of Russian and Polish investigators. Tapes were found but out of the tape mechanism as result of the impact. On Apr 19th, it was reported that the audio contains noise and need additional processing.

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