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New Delhi, June 6: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) accomplished an incredible milestone by completing re-carpeting work at Calicut International Airport in a record time of 120 days, much ahead of the scheduled date, an official statement said on Tuesday.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) accomplished an incredible milestone by completing re-carpeting work at Calicut International Airport in a record time of

47 years later, BTSC looks back at the first "Battle with the Boys". It’s Pittsburgh vs. Dallas and Super Bowl X.

I once (actually many times) heard Huey Lewis croon, “So take me away, I don’t mind. But you better promise me, I’ll be back in time. Gotta get back in time.” Never wanting to disappoint one of my musical heroes, let’s fire up the Delorean and get back to January 18, 1976. As we arrive, I have no bars on my phone. Wonder why? So I pick up a newspaper and see where full diplomatic relations were established between Bangladesh and Pakistan...five years after the Bangladesh Liberation Wa...

Again. a short time ago, i talked with a former transportation department official who said the aspen airport can be a challenge. >> on a good day, aspen is tricky. ive been in there. with the tail wind, you have to plant that plane right at the threshold of the runway, right in the touchdown zone. an eyewitness reported a plane came further down the runway and may have bounced or etch tried to take off again and aspen, particularly in really bad weather, is really unforgiving. so the air traffi...

Lay terms, tell me on what equipment am i relying if im the captain that tells me where to land the aircraft? >> all right. the pilots looking outside, because this is a visual approach. hes looking at the runway, and he can see the touchdown zone of the runway. thats the part that weve all seen as passengers or pilots. thats the part where all the skid marks are, about 1,100 feet down the runway. now, thats the aiming point. thats where he wants to touch down. and hes got to adjust the air spee...

It was simply unstabilized. and a go-around should have been, in fact is mandated to be required in order to avoid an accident. >> put me in that cockpit and in lay terms, tell me on what equipment am i relying if im the captain that tells me where to land the aircraft? >> all right. the pilots looking outside, because this is a visual approach. hes looking at the runway, and he can see the touchdown zone of the runway. thats the part that weve all seen as passengers or pilots. thats the part wh...

Proper dissent rate. the airplane configured for plann landing. and this airplane, for most of that, wasnt any of those things. it was at the improper speed, slow at points, right before the crash, it was too high, too slow, it was simply unstabilized, and a go-around should have been, in fact, as mandated to be required to avoid an accident. >> put me in that cockpit and in lay terms, tell me on what equipment if im relaying, if im the captain, that tells me where to land the aircraft? >> all r...

Indicator, hes set in the speed hes supposed to be flying, 137 knots, for that weight. and what hes doing is looking at his vertical speed and his glide path, so that the sight picture that he sees is going to put him down in the touchdown zone. >> so whats -- im sorry, go ahead. >> whats happened in this airplane is he was all over the place. he was too high on that visual glide path, he was too low at some points, he was too fast, initially, and then he got slow. when the airplane got slow, th...