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Via New York Daily News: Two men who used stolen travel documents to board the Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished Saturday were caught by surveillance cameras and were not Asian in appearance, a Malaysian official said Monday, conflicting earlier reports about what the pair looked like. “We confirmed now they are not Asian-looking males,” Malaysia’s Department of Civil Aviation chief, …

Debris from the aircraft may have been found. Vietnamese aircraft spotted what they suspected was one of the doors belonging to the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 on Sunday, as troubling questions emerged about how two passengers managed to board the Boeing 777 using stolen passports. The discovery comes as officials consider the possibility that the plane disintegrated mid-flight, a …

3500 canceled flights so far.

You might recognize the pilot and co-pilot. (Tipped by JMG reader Blair)

The Weather Channel is calling this one “Janus.”  Flight Aware currently reports 2040 canceled flights for today, but that number is expected to go much higher by late afternoon.

CNN reports: Welcome to Branson, Missouri. Well, maybe not. A Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago’s Midway Airport was scheduled to land at Branson Airport in southwest Missouri on Sunday night. Instead, the Boeing 737-700 touched down at Taney County airport — about 7 miles away, and with a runway significantly shorter. The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation on …

At this writing the wind chill in Manhattan is minus 17. That’s 72 degrees lower than yesterday’s high of 55. Flight Aware reports that 2300 flights have been canceled so far today and thousands more are significantly delayed. Some flights are canceled because of airports that lack adequate deicing equipment. By the way – that “boiling water trick” is resulting …

Flight Aware reports that almost 1200 flights have already been canceled in advance of the blizzard which is due to hit much of the northeast today. Thousands of other flights face “significant delays.”  Via CNN: As of Wednesday night, New York City was under a winter storm warning, just like many other densely populated areas in seven other states. The …

6.5M views in 48 hours. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

So is anybody working today?

Airlines are facing thousands of canceled flights for tomorrow and Wednesday as a developing nor’easter is forecast to bring high winds, rain, and snow to much of the east coast. American Airlines and its affiliates alone have already canceled over 950 flights, mostly out of the Dallas/Fort Worth hub. The National Weather Service has issued an advisory: The bad weather …

Soon you’ll no longer have to stop playing Candy Crush during take-off. Airplane travelers will soon be able to watch videos and play games with their electronic devices throughout their entire flight — and not just above a certain altitude — the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday in a long anticipated announcement. But don’t expect to be chatting on your …

Openly gay American Idol finalist Todrick Hall, who released his latest music video yesterday, stars in the new in-flight safety video for Virgin America, which is quite the pop/dance production.

“I am a white heterosexual male. This trifecta of privilege means that I’m not routinely subjected to prejudice. But for a few minutes I got to walk in the shoes of a gay person in a public place. For no good reason I had had a slur marked over my luggage. I was degraded. I was shamed. I was humiliated. …

Tampa’s WTSP-TV reports: The video shows a woman repeatedly yelling “God, you’re my savior!” as the plane lands. The man narrating the video claims she told fellow passengers her mother recently passed away and asked for prayers, before she escalated into the screaming chant. The narrator says flight attendants asked that he make sure the woman didn’t try approaching the …

At least the hot dog is wearing a condom. I think.

LaGuardia is shut down while emergency vehicles respond to a Southwest jet that landed without its nose gear.  Passengers on other planes say they saw flames during the skid, but there are no reported injuries so far. Passengers are exiting via emergency chutes at this writing.

Casualties unknown at this writing. Story developing… UPDATE: From a man claiming to have been a passenger.