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The incident occurred in January on a return flight from Kendari, in the Indonesian province of Southeast Sulawesi, to the country's capital, Jakarta.The captain of the Batik Air Airbus A320 aircraft, 32, took a nap after getting permission from his copilot while the plane was at a cruising altitude of 36,000 feet.A...

In a topsy-turvy bit of military aviation, the US Air Force used a C-5M Super Galaxy heavy transport to refuel a KC-10 Extender refueling tanker aircraft, pumping fuel backwards up the boom from transport to tanker instead of the other way around.First conceived in the 1920s, inflight refueling has developed from a ...