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Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Aileron
An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft.
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Air navigation
The basic principles of air navigation are identical to general navigation, which includes the process of planning, recording, and controlling the movement of a craft from one place to another.
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Air traffic control
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.
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Airband
Airband or aircraft band is the name for a group of frequencies in the VHF radio spectrum allocated to radio communication in civil aviation, sometimes also referred to as VHF, or phonetically as "Victor".
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Aircraft registration
Every civil aircraft must be marked prominently on its exterior by an alphanumeric string, indicating its country of registration and its unique serial number.
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Airspeed indicator
The airspeed indicator or airspeed gauge is an instrument used in an aircraft to display the craft's airspeed, typically in knots, to the pilot.
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Altimeter
An altimeter or an altitude meter is an instrument used to measure the altitude of an object above a fixed level.
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Amazon rainforest
The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Selva Amazónica, Amazonía or usually Amazonia; Forêt amazonienne; Amazoneregenwoud), also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.
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Amazon River
The Amazon River (or; Spanish and Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and either the longest or second longest.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Attitude indicator
An attitude indicator (AI), also known as gyro horizon or artificial horizon or attitude director indicator (ADI, when it has a Flight Director), is an instrument used in an aircraft to inform the pilot of the orientation of the aircraft relative to Earth's horizon.
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Autopilot
An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required.
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Barra do Garças
Barra do Garças is a city with a population of 50,000 located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, around far from the capital city of Cuiabá.
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Belém
Belém (Portuguese for Bethlehem), is a Brazilian city, the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north.
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Belly landing
A belly landing, pancake landing or gear-up landing occurs when an aircraft lands without its landing gear fully extended and uses its underside, or belly, as its primary landing device.
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Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a short- to medium-range twinjet narrow-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States.
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Branded Entertainment Network
Branded Entertainment Network (BEN) is a Los Angeles-based advertising and licensing agency.
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Brasília
Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District.
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Brasília International Airport
Brasília–Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport is the primary international airport serving Brasília.
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Brazilian Air Force
The Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) is the air branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces and one of the three national uniformed services.
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Cachimbo Airport
Cachimbo Airport is the military airport serving Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso, a large Testing and Training complex of the Brazilian Armed Forces located in Serra do Cachimbo (Smoking pipe Mountains), in the southern part of the state of Pará, Brazil.
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Carajás Airport
Carajás Airport is the airport serving Parauapebas, Brazil, located in the Carajás Mining Complex.
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Dead reckoning
In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating one's current position by using a previously determined position, or fix, and advancing that position based upon known or estimated speeds over elapsed time and course.
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Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
The Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante is a Brazilian general purpose 15–21 passenger twin-turboprop light transport aircraft designed by Embraer for military and civil use.
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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station
An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station is a distress radiobeacon, a tracking transmitter that is triggered during an accident.
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Flameout
In aviation a flameout refers to the run-down of a jet engine caused by the extinction of the flame in the combustion chamber.
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Flap (aeronautics)
Flaps are a type of high-lift device used to increase the lift of an aircraft wing at a given airspeed.
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Flight attendant
Flight attendants or cabin crew (also known as stewards/stewardesses, air hosts/hostesses, cabin attendants) are members of an aircrew employed by airlines primarily to ensure the safety and comfort of passengers aboard commercial flights, on select business jet aircraft, and on some military aircraft.
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Flight level
In aviation and aviation meteorology, a flight level (FL) is defined as a vertical altitude at standard pressure, nominally expressed in hundreds of feet.
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Flight plan
Flight plans are documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local Civil Aviation Authority (e.g. the FAA in the United States) prior to departure which indicate the plane's planned route or flight path.
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Flight planning
Flight planning is the process of producing a flight plan to describe a proposed aircraft flight.
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Folha de S.Paulo
Folha de S.Paulo, also known as Folha de São Paulo, or simply Folha (Sheet), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name Folha da Noite and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company.
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Franca
Franca is a municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
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Fuel starvation
In an internal combustion engine, fuel starvation is defined as the failure of the fuel system to supply sufficient fuel to allow the engine to run properly, for example due to blockage, vapor lock, contamination by water, malfunction of the fuel pump or incorrect operation, leading to loss of power or engine stoppage.
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Goiânia
Goiânia is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Goiás.
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Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (ICAO: GLO 1907) was a Boeing 737-8EH, registration PR-GTD, on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil, to Rio de Janeiro.
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High frequency
High frequency (HF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) between 3 and 30 megahertz (MHz).
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Horizontal situation indicator
The horizontal situation indicator (commonly called the HSI) is an aircraft flight instrument normally mounted below the artificial horizon in place of a conventional heading indicator.
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Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Imperatriz
Imperatriz is the second most populated city in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão.
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Imperatriz Airport
Imperatriz-Prefeito Renato Moreira Airport is the airport serving Imperatriz, Brazil.
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Le Monde
Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edition.
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List of airline flights that required gliding
Airplane gliding occurs when all the engines shut down, but the wings are still functional and can be used for a controlled descent.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Marabá Airport
João Correa da Rocha Airport is the airport serving Marabá, Brazil.
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Marabá, Pará
Marabá is a municipality in the state of Pará, Brazil.
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Marajó
Marajó is a large delta island in the state of Pará, Brazil.
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Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso (– lit. "Thick Bushes") is one of the states of Brazil, the third-largest by area, located in the western part of the country.
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Morse code
Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.
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National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)
National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel and also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by National Geographic Partners, majority-owned by 21st Century Fox with the remainder owned by the National Geographic Society.
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Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
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North Region, Brazil
The North Region of Brazil (Região Norte do Brasil) is the largest Region of Brazil, corresponding to 45.27% of the national territory.
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Omega (navigation system)
OMEGA was the first global-range radio navigation system, operated by the United States in cooperation with six partner nations.
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Pará
Pará is a state in northern Brazil traversed by the lower Amazon River.
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Pilot error
Pilot error (sometimes called cockpit error) is a term used to describe a decision, action or inaction by a pilot or crew of an aircraft that is determined to be the cause of, or a contributing factor in, an accident or incident.
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Piloting (navigation)
Piloting (on water) or pilotage (in the air also British English) or land navigation is navigating, using fixed points of reference on the sea or on land, usually with reference to a nautical chart, aeronautical chart or topographic map, to obtain a fix of the position of the vessel, aircraft or land traveler with respect to a desired course or location.
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Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
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Radio direction finder
A radio direction finder (RDF) is a device for finding the direction, or ''bearing'', to a radio source.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.
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Santa Genoveva Airport
Santa Genoveva/Goiânia Airport is the airport serving Goiânia, Brazil.
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Santarém, Pará
Santarém is a city and municipality in the western part of the state of Pará in Brazil.
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São José do Xingu
São José do Xingu is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil.
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São Paulo
São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.
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São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport
São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport, often referred to as GRU Airport, or simply GRU, is the primary international airport serving São Paulo.
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Situation awareness
Situational awareness or situation awareness (SA) is the perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status after some variable has changed, such as time, or some other variable, such as a predetermined event.
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Stall (fluid mechanics)
In fluid dynamics, a stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by a foil as angle of attack increases.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Uberaba
Uberaba is a municipality in the west of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
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Uberaba Airport
Uberaba–Mário de Almeida Franco Airport is the airport serving Uberaba, Brazil.
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Uberlândia
Uberlândia is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil.
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Uberlândia Airport
Uberlândia–Ten.
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Val de Cans International Airport
Belém/Val de Cans–Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport is the main airport serving Belém, Brazil.
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Varig
VARIG (acronym for Viação Aérea RIo-Grandense) was the first airline founded in Brazil, in 1927.
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Variometer
A variometer – also known as a rate of climb and descent indicator (RCDI), rate-of-climb indicator, vertical speed indicator (VSI), or vertical velocity indicator (VVI) – is one of the flight instruments in an aircraft used to inform the pilot of the rate of descent or climb.
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VHF omnidirectional range
Very High Frequency (VHF) Omni-Directional Range (VOR) is a type of short-range radio navigation system for aircraft, enabling aircraft with a receiving unit to determine their position and stay on course by receiving radio signals transmitted by a network of fixed ground radio beacons.
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Xingu River
The Xingu River (Rio Xingu) is a river in north Brazil.
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1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
The South American (CONMEBOL) zone of qualification for the 1990 FIFA World Cup saw 9 teams competing for 2 direct places at the finals, with one extra place potentially on offer to the winner of a play-off.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varig_Flight_254
