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    A flight dispatcher (also known as an airline dispatcher or flight operations officer) assists in planning flight paths, taking into account aircraft...
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    dispatchers to relay information, direct personnel, and coordinate their operations. An emergency dispatcher, also known as public safety dispatcher,...
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    Vladimir were returning from their honeymoon.[citation needed] The flight dispatcher was informed that military aircraft would traverse the local airspace...
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    the University of Surrey. He joined British Airways and worked as a flight dispatcher. In 1980, he married Carole Goldsmith, who founded Party Pieces, a...
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    Ballinger, the United flight dispatcher, began sending text cockpit warnings to United Airlines flights at 09:19, sixteen minutes after Flight 175's impact. Ballinger...
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    informal conversation with the flight dispatcher on duty. The aforementioned briefing started with the rest of the flight's crew, and when the first officer...
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    the company's flight dispatcher contributed to the disaster by misevaluating the weather forecast and choosing an inappropriate flight altitude. All 67...
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    hours, and Flight 1420 was the flight crew's last flight of the day. The first officer notified the airline's flight dispatcher that the flight crew would...
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    Flight plans are documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local Air Navigation Service Provider (e.g., the FAA in the United States) prior...
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    A flight attendant is a member of the aircrew whose primary responsibility is ensure the safety of passengers in the cabin of an aircraft across all stages...
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    accident report. The flight crew boarded BE 548 (call sign Bealine 548) at 15:20 to prepare for a 15:45 departure. At 15:36, flight dispatcher J. Coleman presented...
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    Historically, large aircraft had several personnel on the flight deck, such as a navigator, a flight engineer, and a dedicated radio operator. Improvements...
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    and Flight Dispatcher training. BAA Training Aviation Academy operates 18 flight simulation training devices (FSTDs), including 5 full flight simulators...
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    aviation, the sterile flight deck rule or sterile cockpit rule is a procedural requirement that during critical phases of flight (normally below 10,000 ft...
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    planners. A licensed flight dispatcher or flight operations officer is required by law to carry out flight planning and flight watch tasks in many commercial...
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    1949), a former British Airways flight dispatcher, and Carole Middleton (née Goldsmith; born 1955), a former flight attendant. Her father is a member...
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    that were forming near his flight path. As was the practice at the time, his request had to be relayed by a TWA flight dispatcher to air traffic control (ATC)...
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    aircraft who is ultimately responsible for its operation and safety during flight. This would be the captain in a typical two- or three-pilot aircrew, or...
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    professionals. The FAA also certifies flight engineers, flight instructors, ground instructors, flight dispatchers, aircraft maintenance technicians, parachute...
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    government. "The World's Shortest International Jet Flight? Aruba Airlines Launches 8-Minute Flight To Punto Fijo". Airways Magazine. 19 May 2018. Retrieved...
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  • requires the dispatcher to pull out every card, one at a time, and read it. If two or more resources are sent to the same call, the dispatcher has a lot...
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    amended flight plan from the Allegheny Airlines flight dispatcher. He asked the dispatcher to remove the planned refuelling at Groton from the flight itinerary...
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    Air India Flight 171 was a regularly scheduled international Air India flight from Ahmedabad Airport to London Gatwick Airport. Shortly after takeoff...
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    creditors were unlikely to be paid. Goldsmith married colleague, flight dispatcher Michael Middleton on 21 June 1980 at the Church of St James in Dorney...
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    Jeju Air Flight 2216 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Jeju Air from Suvarnabhumi Airport near Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan International...
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    contacted the approach dispatcher (DPP) and falsely reported entering the airport's zone via air corridor No. 3. The approach dispatcher, although seeing on...
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    Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 was a chartered passenger flight from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Sokoto, Nigeria, on 11 July 1991, which caught fire shortly...
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    350km 217miles     Air India Flight 182 was a passenger flight operating on the Montreal–London–Delhi–Mumbai route that, on 23 June 1985, disintegrated...
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    deleted its flight plan.[citation needed] However, after consulting with the airline dispatcher, the pilots decided to continue on their flight plan "and...
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  • January 29, 2025, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle) and a United States Army...
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