Topic: Air Travel (page 17)

Sen. DeMint stands firm against TSA nominee

Associated Press

Clockwise, top left: US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) addresses senate health care legislation at the US Capitol in Washington; a US chopper in Iraq's Green Zone; Holiday travelers wait in line to go through security at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 26; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

The Delta-Northwest Airlines plane N820NW is pulled back to the terminal at the Detroit Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. A Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria, who said he was acting on al-Qaida's instructions, set off an explosive device Friday in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit, federal officials said. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) (AP)

Pamela Hess, Matthew Lee

Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the runway after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam on Friday.

Lara Jakes, Larry Margasak

Man standing in his underwear, waiting to go through an airport security check station (James Steidl)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 image released by FlightAware.com, the flight path of Northwest Flight 188 is shown. After a Northwest Airlines plane flew past Minneapolis, air traffic controllers asked the pilots repeatedly for explanations about why they didn't heed radio calls, according to transcripts released on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/FlightAware.com, File) (Associated Press)

Part of the fuselage of the Gol airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed in the jungle after clipping an Embraer Legacy 600XL executive jet last Friday, lies on the jungle floor at the Jarina Indian reserve in the Brazilian Amazon basin October 1, 2006. Rescuers recovered the first two bodies from the wreckage of the crashed Brazilian passenger plane in the Amazon jungle on Sunday and reported that none of the 155 people on board had survived, the Brazilian Airforce said. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar (BRAZIL) (Reuters)

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A US Airways jetliner is seen after it crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon, Jan. 15, 2009 after a flock of birds apparently disabled both its engines. Rescuers pulled the more than 150 passengers and crew members into boats before the plane sank, authorities say. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said Flight 1549 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport en route to Charlotte, N.C., when the crash occurred in the river near 48th Street in midtown Manhattan. (AP Photo/Greg Lam Pak Ng) (A. G. Lam Pak Ng)

Fires burning in New York's Belle Harbor neighborhood, from the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 which killed 265 people, are visible from a police helicopter Monday, Nov. 12, 2001. (AP Photo/New York Police Department) (Associated Press)

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In this image released by FlightAware.com, the flight path of Northwest Flight 188 on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 is shown. Two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their destination by 150 miles before turning back, Wednesday evening, Oct 21, 2009, should have had numerous warnings as they approached and passed Minneapolis: cockpit displays, controllers trying repeatedly to reach, the city lights twinkling below. (AP Photo/FlightAware.com) (Associated Press)

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A Qantas 747 aircraft takes off from Sydney airport August 19, 2009. (REUTERS / Tim Wimborne)

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A detail from the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport.

On the eve of the 8th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, travellers go through the passenger security screening facility at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, outside Washington, September 10, 2009.

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A TSA supervisor guides items into the X-ray machine at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington in 2008.

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