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A man punched an American Airlines pilot who kicked him off a flight from Miami, and he and his brother then attacked the pilot again before bystanders tackled the brothers in the terminal, officials said Thursday.

Jonathan and Luis Baez, both of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, were arrested at Miami International Airport. They had been aboard American Airlines Flight 1755 bound for San Francisco on Wednesday night, according to an arrest affidavit.

While the plane taxied away from the gate, a flight attendant noticed 27-year-old Jonathan Baez was sleeping and had not buckled his seat belt, police said.

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In Traverse City, Mich., work on replacing a 30-year-old air traffic control tower at Cherry Capital Airport has been halted. The job was about 40 percent completed, and crews had planned to lift the “cab” section to the top of the tower this week, airport manager Kevin Klein said.

But that was before a legislative stalemate between Republicans and Democrats in Congress forced the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, the furlough of nearly 4,000 federal workers and the issuance of stop-work orders for dozens of airport construction projects across the country.

“It’s very frustrating,” Klein said. “It puts about 50 construction workers out of a job.

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There is no rest for Team Social Media Syndicate for the Mongol Rally. Our arrival was a whirlwind and it didnt stop for 8 days.

After gathering our car and getting our paperwork in order, we had one final stop at the Track24 Solo office in the trendy Soho district of London.

What a fantastic bunch of guys.

If you havent been following us, the Track24 Solo is an amazing device that will be tracking our team all the way to Mongolia!

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A jumping shot of us on a beach in Darwin, Australia.

Finnair will fly the world’s longest commercial flight to date using biofuel. In the next few weeks, Finnair will fly a series of four flights using biofuel in both engines of its aircraft.

For Finnair, it is important to find an ecologically, financially and socially sustainable fuel solution and this is one step towards more sustainable flying. Biofuels are constantly being improved in all of the above-mentioned areas of sustainability, and current investments are playing an important role in development work.

“Biofuel use is still not financially sustainable, because biofuel is more expensive than ordinary aviation fuel and no large-scale production or distribution has yet been established. F

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