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The European Commission criticised airport authorities for failing to prepare for the bad weather, as heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures were still severely disrupting air traffic in Europe on Tuesday, and may draft new rules if airport operators would not take action voluntarily to plan better for severe weather...
Scott McCartney reports on how Alaska Airlines has been coping with navigating around volcanic eruptions in Washington and Alaska for decades. The airline gives specific pilot training and carries out computer modelling to accurately predict ash trajectories...
The Wall Street Journal's Gautam Naik reports on the massive earthquake that hit Chile last weekend and asks why it caused less destruction than the less powerful Jan 12 earthquake in Haiti...
Better informing the public is critical to implementation of building improvements, stressed a home safety group yesterday to a Congressional panel, in support of federal efforts to boost building safety....
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