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	<title>Crikey &#187; aviation</title>
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		<title>Virgin&#8217;s wheel of fire at the hub of wider problems</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/virgins-wheel-of-fire-at-the-hub-of-wider-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/virgins-wheel-of-fire-at-the-hub-of-wider-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aircraft engineers union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Purvinas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Blue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Virgin Blue lawyers are crawling over the words of aircraft engineers union federal secretary Steve Purvinas like ants over road kill this morning, but what is really going on?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Taking flight over New York</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/taking-flight-over-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/26/taking-flight-over-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paper planes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A paper plane is tossed from a building in New York's financial district. See how it flies.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mystery and speculation surround Air France flight AF447</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/02/mystery-and-speculation-surround-air-france-flight-af447/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Only two things are certain about the loss of Air France flight AF447 last night. It suffered unprecedented massive electrical failures, and a catastrophic loss of control. Everything else is speculation.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>ICAO audit reveals Australia&#8217;s third world skies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/icao-audit-reveals-australias-third-world-skies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/12/icao-audit-reveals-australias-third-world-skies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 03:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=57357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The deficiencies found in CASA air safety oversight by the ICAO audit are sufficient for the US Federal Aviation Administration to downgrade Australia’s rating under its International Aviation Safety Assessment program to Level 2, the same as Indonesia.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jetstar turns cannibal to subdue the Tiger</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/04/jetstar-turns-cannibal-to-subdue-the-tiger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/04/jetstar-turns-cannibal-to-subdue-the-tiger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 03:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline competition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jetstar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Airways]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=55180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jetstar looks set to "accidentally" take on its parent airline Qantas on the Melbourne-Sydney route for the greater goal of keeping Tiger Airways in its cage.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas asks how Emirates&#8217; near crash flew under radar</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/qantas-asks-how-emirates-near-crash-flew-under-radar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/qantas-asks-how-emirates-near-crash-flew-under-radar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Aviation Safety Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emirates Airline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Corp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=54389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime early in April, Qantas senior management is believed to have put rockets up News and Fairfax senior management.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Emirates flight 407: centimetres from death</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/emirates-flight-407-seconds-and-centimetres-from-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/30/emirates-flight-407-seconds-and-centimetres-from-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ATSB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emirates Airline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We're all going to die]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=54367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 20 March, Emirates flight EK 407 from Melbourne and the 275 people on board were seconds and centimetres from a fiery death.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Now open, the Crikey angry flyers&#8217; lounge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/28/now-open-the-crikey-angry-flyers-lounge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/28/now-open-the-crikey-angry-flyers-lounge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANZAC Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RSL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Airways]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=53781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tiger Airways had now said sorry three times in six days to angry customers and the RSL.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Banned in Europe, Garuda still calls Australia home</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/07/banned-in-europe-garuda-still-calls-australia-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/07/banned-in-europe-garuda-still-calls-australia-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Transport Safety Bureau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Aviation Safety Authority]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=50569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ongoing inquiries by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau make it clear that Garuda remained capable of being a menace to air safety in this country until at least 17 December last year, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas has confessed, now Singpaore and Emirates face ACCC</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/03/qantas-has-confessed-now-singpaore-and-emirates-face-accc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/03/qantas-has-confessed-now-singpaore-and-emirates-face-accc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cartel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emirates airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graeme Samuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore Airlines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=50216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Emirates and Singapore Airlines have lost a Federal Court bid to prevent their pursuit by the ACCC for fixing fuel and security surcharges, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/03/qantas-has-confessed-now-singpaore-and-emirates-face-accc/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Poisoning cyberspace with Arab hate mail</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/poisoning-cyberspace-with-arab-hate-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/poisoning-cyberspace-with-arab-hate-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=49978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A fresh coat of hatred has been poured over a hoary old internet fakement about ignorant Arab pilots and a brand new Airbus they destroyed on the ground in France, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/poisoning-cyberspace-with-arab-hate-mail/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Planes flying blind at regional airports</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/planes-flying-blind-at-regional-airports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/planes-flying-blind-at-regional-airports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airservices Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=49960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia has tolerated, at airline insistence, the criminally insane mixing of scheduled passenger aircraft and smaller objects, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas row: rude mechanics vs goons</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/qantas-row-rude-mechanics-vs-goons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/02/qantas-row-rude-mechanics-vs-goons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=49879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A union not involved in the Qantas baggage dispute has blown the whistle on dangerous practices by the management staff that entered the tarmac in efforts to keep the airline running, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas throws a match into bonfire of the airlines</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/03/qantas-throws-a-match-into-bonfire-of-the-airlines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/03/qantas-throws-a-match-into-bonfire-of-the-airlines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emirates Airline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massive merger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore Airlines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The QF+BA "merger of equals" discussion, which sources credit to former Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon, is to consolidation what the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was to world peace in 1914, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.

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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>QF72 &#8212; chaos at 37,000 feet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/qf72-chaos-at-37000-feet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/qf72-chaos-at-37000-feet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The preliminary report into the 7 October double dive by QF 72 shows that a lot more went wrong with the Airbus A330 than previously disclosed, writes <b>>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The blue-sky marketing madness of the F-35</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/the-blue-sky-marketing-madness-of-the-f-35/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/14/the-blue-sky-marketing-madness-of-the-f-35/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian defence force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lockheed martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australia and the Department of Spendthrift Defence, can't afford this gold plated and unproven wonder, writes <b>Eric L Palmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dick Smith: Please stop asking me about Qantas!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/09/dick-smith-please-stop-asking-me-about-qantas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/09/dick-smith-please-stop-asking-me-about-qantas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dick smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A rather unusual media release from Dick Smith lobbed into journalists' inboxes this morning... ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Phuket it! Where was DFAT and Qantas?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/02/phuket-it-where-was-dfat-and-qantas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/02/phuket-it-where-was-dfat-and-qantas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phuket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I've been one of the several thousand (we think) Australians trapped in Phuket because of the protests which shut the airport.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>CASA Qantas audit supressed &#8230; QF30 ricochet revealed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/29/casa-qantas-audit-supressed-qf30-ricochet-revealed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/29/casa-qantas-audit-supressed-qf30-ricochet-revealed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CASA special audit of Qantas has been completed and will be suppressed on the grounds of being ‘commercial in confidence’, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Bulkhead blues another blow to Qantas&#8217; reputation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/bulkhead-blues-another-blow-to-qantas-reputation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/13/bulkhead-blues-another-blow-to-qantas-reputation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pressure bulkheads like those in the six temporarily grounded Qantas 737-400s are vital to safe flight. If they break apart the difference in pressure between the cabin interior and the external air pressure will destroy the jet, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Rationing the skies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/11/rationing-the-skies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/11/rationing-the-skies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for ‘renegade’ air traffic controllers causing chaos in the skies, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Media briefs: White House plane detained, Phuket, let&#8217;s pun and more</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/media-briefs-white-house-plane-detained-phuket-lets-pun-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/media-briefs-white-house-plane-detained-phuket-lets-pun-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China detains White House media plane: A charter airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly three hours Friday at Beijing&#8217;s international airport not long after President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The flight crew of the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a VIP terminal, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Planet: Going green Beijing?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/state-of-the-planet-going-green-beijing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/08/state-of-the-planet-going-green-beijing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How friendly are the Olympics, really?]]></description>
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		<title>How safe is Qantas really?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/06/how-safe-is-qantas-really/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/06/how-safe-is-qantas-really/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey reader David asks: "Is Qantas's record as good as we are led to believe? And how are the stats to be compared: deaths, emergency landings per hour flown, per aircraft, per trip?" <b>Ben Sandilands</b> responds. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger and Jetstar in battle of spin</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/tiger-and-jetstar-in-battle-of-spin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/05/tiger-and-jetstar-in-battle-of-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Tiger announced it would quit Darwin only a few hours before Jetstar was heaping praise on the NT government. Let's take a look at what's really going on, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>. ]]></description>
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