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In its continuing investigation of an incident in which a United Airlines Airbus A-320 jetliner departed the runway during landing at Wyoming's Jackson Hole Airport on the evening of February, 25, 2008, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has developed the following factual information during its on-scene investigation.

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The National Transportation Safety Board sent two investigators to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to investigate an incident in which a United Airlines jet veered off the side of a runway.

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In its continuing investigation of an uncontained engine failure that occurred on a Southwest Airlines flight from Dallas, Texas (Love Field), to Little Rock, Arkansas, on November 17, 2007, the National Transportation Safety Board is revising and broadening its search for engine components that fell to the ground in a sparsely populated rural area of Texas.

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Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the James Webb Space Telescope being built by Northrop Grumman. The electronics will convert analog signals to digital signals and provide better images to Earth.

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Night-time noise from aircraft or traffic can increase a person's blood pressure even if it does not wake them. Scientists monitored 140 sleeping volunteers in their homes near London Heathrow and three other major European airports. The researchers measured the volunteers' blood pressure remotely at 15-minute intervals and then analyzed how this related to the noise recorded in the volunteers' bedrooms.

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