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Pair Who Flew Drone Dangerously Close To Logan Airport In Custody, Police Say Pair Who Flew Drone Dangerously Close To Logan Airport In Custody, Police Say
Pair Who Flew Drone Dangerously Close To Logan Airport In Custody, Police Say Two Massachusetts men were arrested on Saturday, Dec. 14, after a hazardous drone operation near Logan International Airport triggered a coordinated safety response, police said. Boston Police officers apprehended 42-year-old Robert Duffy of Charlestown and 32-year-old Jeremy Folcik of Bridgewater, on Long Island in the Boston Harbor Islands around 10:22 p.m. Both face charges of trespassing, with additional charges potentially pending. The incident began at 4:30 p.m. when a Boston Police Officer monitoring real-time crime surveillance detected a drone dangerously close to Logan Internation…

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by Cecilia Levine
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'Crew Is Vomiting:' Listen To Soundbite From Flight Diverted To VA Airport Due To Medical Issue 'Crew Is Vomiting:' Listen To Soundbite From Flight Diverted To VA Airport Due To Medical Issue
'Crew Is Vomiting:' Listen To Soundbite From Flight Diverted To VA Airport Due To Medical Issue "We need to get this plane on the ground ASAP." A soundbite from a Boston-bound flight briefly diverted to a Virginia airport over the weekend due to a customer experiencing a medical issue has been released. And it's not pretty. The incident happened on Flight UA2477, which departed Houston on Sunday, July 28, a United Airlines spokesman said.  While United did say a medical issue suffered by a passenger caused a quick diversion to Washington-Dulles Airport in Loudoun and Fairfax counties, the airline did not specify the nature of the episode. A soundbite from someone on the f…

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by Cecilia Levine
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JetBlue Flight Narrowly Avoids Run-In With LearJet Plane At Boston Airport: Feds JetBlue Flight Narrowly Avoids Run-In With LearJet Plane At Boston Airport: Feds
JetBlue Flight Narrowly Avoids Run-In With LearJet Plane At Boston Airport: Feds The pilot of a Learjet plane took off without clearance at Boston Logan International Airport, forcing a JetBlue flight to take "evasive action," officials say.  A Learjet 60 flight was instructed to line up and wait before taking off while a JetBlue Embraer 190 landed on an intersecting runway on Monday, Feb. 27 around 7:00 p.m., according to a preliminary statement by the Federal Aviation Administration.  VERY CLOSE CALL: FAA says Learjet Hop-A-Jet took off without clearance at Logan Airport Monday forcing JetBlue 206 to take evasive action and go-around. JetBlue flight may have touch…

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by Morgan Gonzales