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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) plans to cut carbon emissions to half of 2005 levels by 2050, meaning Boeing’s biofuel target is 2030, as jetliners typically are in service for around 20 years.

Lufthansa and air trafrance hav decided not to send them over the sinai peninsula. the investigation will be an international investigation. officials from france, officials from russia, officials from egypt and germany as well, the aircraft maker, the engine makers are all going to get together and piece together what happened here. but it appears that this plane had a normal takeoff and had reached altitude in the midlevel flight level, 35,000 feet and something went wrong and it will be a mat...

A sort of certain way that its transmitted. as you know, richard, the engine -- its like taking the health of a patient really in hospital. the system is not meant to prevent a failure, but its a system thats meant to help engine makers and the airlines predict perhaps a maintenance event by monitoring the trends its showing. so this data is meant to be a long-term feed, as you know. so what puzzles me is that the engine data also comes down the same pipe as the acars data were familiar with. so...