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Travis Kelce’s New Ohio Home Has Neighbors Buzzing With Excitement About Taylor Swift

The wealthy enclave of Bratenahl, Ohio, has been aflutter after learning that Travis Kelce purchased a Lake Erie mansion.

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Bratenahl is a wealthy suburb on Lake Erie near Cleveland.
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Homeland Security Secretary’s Plane Makes Emergency Landing

The landing was the latest close call over Washington’s congested airspace to involve a senior government official.

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Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, was on a plane that made an emergency landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.
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Azriel Blackman, Airline Mechanic for 80 Years, Dies at 100

With a career commemorated by Guinness World Records, he started as an apprentice in 1942 and worked on a panoply of propeller-driven and jet aircraft until he retired in 2022.

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Azriel “Al” Blackman, then 91, in 2017, the year American Airlines, his longtime employer, dedicated a Boeing 777-200 in his name.
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White House Construction May Have Contributed to Close Call With Trump’s Helicopter

A controller let a jet take off after missing warnings that Marine One was about to fly through the area, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

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A passenger jet came within a mile of Marine One in early August, after an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport appeared to have missed multiple warnings.
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Malaria, Likely Spread by Mosquito on Plane, Kills 2 Airport Workers in Germany

Six employees at Frankfurt Airport were infected this summer, according to German health officials and the airport’s operator. Four recovered.

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Mosquito traps had been placed at Frankfurt Airport, and any insects caught would be analyzed to find out about their species and origins, a spokesman for the airport’s operator said.
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Worker Dies After Accident With Plane at Montreal Airport

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said the episode involved an Airbus A350 operated by French Bee, a French low-cost airline.

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The authority that operates Montréal-Trudeau International Airport said a worker employed by Samsic, a company that provides support services, was killed in an accident on Monday.
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Gold, Flights, Cryptocurrency: U.S. Vows to Go After More Than Iran’s Oil

The United States threatened sanctions for any country or entity that engages with Iran’s gold, digital assets, aviation, shipping and tech industries. Here’s why that matters.

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A gas station in Tehran on Tuesday. The United States imposed a monthslong blockade on Iran’s shipments of oil, the nation’s economic engine.
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Small Plane Crashes in Western Alaska, Killing Eight

The Cessna aircraft was carrying two pilots, two U.S. Army engineers and four contractors to Cape Newenham from Anchorage when it crashed near a U.S. military site, investigators said.

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A Cessna 441 had taken off from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and was headed to Cape Newenham, in Western Alaska, when it crashed around 11:45 a.m. Thursday, officials said.
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Engine Blade Hit Window on Jet Before Man Was Partly Sucked Outside, Report Says

The National Transportation Safety Board said it had found a bird’s remains and feathers on a broken engine.

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A Ryanair plane in Thessaloniki, Greece, last May. A full investigation into an incident last month will take at least a year, federal official said.
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Hundreds of Flights Canceled in Sicily as Mount Etna Erupts

Etna erupts often, but it usually doesn’t release this much ash, an expert said. Tens of thousands of travelers’ plans have been disrupted in the past week.

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Volcanic ash and lava during an eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily on Wednesday.
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Before Trump’s Catering Container Ruse, Other Presidents Obscured Risky Travel Plans

President Trump was part of a particularly elaborate deception last month, boarding one jet before being spirited away to another.

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President Trump disembarking Air Force One in Britain last month.
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