Airline Safety

Father: Sick Son Removed From Safety Seat By Southwest Airlines

AP | Posted 12.26.2011

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BEDFORD, N.H. -- A New Hampshire couple said Saturday that Southwest Airlines flight attendants put the couple's terminally ill son at risk by orderin...

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In Europe, Fatigued Pilots Could Be 'Drunk' Pilots

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Pilot Rules, Airline Safety, Aviation Safety, Regulations, EU Regulations, EU Pilots, Aviation Policy, Aviation Rules, Travel News, Global Pulse, Eu, Pilots, Travel News

Under proposed new aviation rules in the European Union, pilots could see their duty hours go from nine to 13 hours, reports the Daily Mail. That mean...

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WATCH: Cutest Airline Safety Video

Posted 09.23.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Video, Kids Airline Safety Video, Turkey, Airline Safety Video, Turkish Kids, Kids, Pegasus Airlines, Safety, Pegasus, Urlesque, Comedy News

It's easy to ignore the safety videos that play at the beginning of each flight on a major airline. If you don't know how to buckle a seatbelt in 2011...

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'Crash Pads': Are Sleepy Pilots Flying Your Plane?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Video, Airports, Sleeping, Pilots, Sleep Deprivation, Sleep, Airlines, Travel News

An ABC News report that airs Wednesday on World News and Nightline shows the conditions many pilots are forced to deal with when trying to sleep betwe...

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ScannerGate and Unhappy Ending Pat-Downs

Kate Hanni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Constitutional Rights, Health, Homeland Security, Tsa, Travel News

What do you know about the TSA's two new security measures? Our recent survey showed us that many people haven't given this issue much thought.

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Tray Tables Stowed! Seats in the Upright Position!

Carolyn W. Paddock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Carolyn Paddock, Airline Regulations, Emergency Landing, Delta Air Lines, Travel News

Ever since Delta Connection flight 4951 made its emergency one-wheeled landing at JFK on September 25th, people have been asking me questions about the reasons for all the procedures. Remember, they were designed for your safety.

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Congress Readies Stricter Aviation Safety Legislation

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Oberstar Aviation, Airline Safety, Aviation Safety, Faa, James Oberstar, Federal Aviation Administration, Aviation, Airlines, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Congress is getting ready to pass tough new aviation safety measures that were developed in response to a deadly commuter plane cra...

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Aeromexico Passenger Arrested After U.S. Refuses Flight Access To Airspace

AP | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aeromexico, Tsa, Flight Arrest, Airplane Arrest, Mexico, France, Airline Safety, Montreal, Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, Paris, Mexico City, Watch List, World News

WASHINGTON — An Aeromexico flight from Paris to Mexico City was diverted to Montreal on Sunday when the U.S. denied the flight access to its air...

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Tales From the Cockpit: Co-Pilot Tells All

Glyn Vincent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Travel, Online Journalism, Literary Magazines, New York News

We've all read newsy accounts of airline captains' heroism and tragic incompetence this past year. But it's rare to get an actual glimpse of what's going on in the cockpit and what your captain was up to before he strapped himself into the driver's seat.

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Obama Will Meet Families Of 2009 Buffalo Plane Crash Victims

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — President Barack Obama will meet briefly with relatives of people who died when their plane crashed into a New York home. Famil...

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Congress Presses White House For Specific Intelligence Fixes

AP | ROBERT BURNS and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, National Security, Obama National Security, Airline Safety, Intel, Intel Failures, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The nation's intelligence chief on Wednesday conceded missteps in the government's handling of the Christmas Day airline bombing at...

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LAX Among Airports Hit by New Security Overreaction

Charles Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Amsterdam, Northwest Flight 253, Lax, Delta, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, Los Angeles News

A Christmas Day alleged attempt to blow up a Delta-Northwest jet from Amsterdam to Detroit resulted in a hasty regrouping by security officials. But do their latest measures make any sense?

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White House Creates Ministry of Hindsight and Self-Flagellation

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Northwest Airlines, War on Terror, National Security, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Obama, Czars, Al Qaeda, Comedy News

The mission of the Ministry of Hindsight and Self-Flagellation will be to organize and exacerbate reaction to any future past issues that end badly and make the government look stupid.

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Pilot Fatigue to Blame?

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Faa, Safety, Airplanes, Pilots, Sleep Deprivation, Airlines, Sleep, Healthy Living News

If you learned upon landing that your plane's pilots had overshot the airport by 150 miles because they fell asleep at the controls, what would you feel?

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New Airline Safety Measures To Be Announced By Obama

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama scolded 20 of his highest-level officials on Tuesday over the botched Christmas Day terror attack on an airl...

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The Butt Bomb: New Security May Force Al Qaeda To Extreme Lengths

The New Republic | Michael Crowley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Scanning, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Airports, Airline Security, Butt Bomb, Security Measures, Airport Security, Al Qaeda, World News

Even a pat-down thorough enough to simulate foreplay, however, won't protect us completely--not from a threat that sounds even more absurd than an und...

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What We Can Learn From the Tragic Murder of Lily Burk

Robin Sax | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Lily Burk, Crime, Los Angeles, Teachable Moment, Parenting Tips, Child Safety Advice, Child Abduction, Parenting, Child Safety, Home News

Some parents have an easier time telling their kids to be politically correct than they do discussing their safety, but life isn't always pretty, so sit down and talk to your kids today.

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Sale: Exit Row Seats $8.70 per Hour

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Fat Tax, Virgin Airlines, Qantas, First Class, Airfares, Ryanair, Flying, Match Making, United, Exit Row Seats, Air France, E Bay, Jetblue, Airlines, Business News

The airlines are getting very desperate ... charging more and more for things that used to be free.

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Airline Safety Blacklist Called By EU

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airlines, Air Accidents, Airline Safety, World Airline List, Safety List, Airline Blacklist, EU Blacklist, EU Airline Blaclist, Yemeni Air Disaster, Yemeni Air Crash, Yemen Plane Crash, EU Transport Commissioner, Commissioner Antonio Tajani, World News

The EU's transport chief has called for a worldwide blacklist of airlines deemed unsafe, as investigators probe the crash of a Yemeni airliner. ...

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Jeff Skiles Interview: Airlines Hiring "Very Substandard" Pilots (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airline Safety, Jeff Skiles Interview, Jeff Skiles Early Show Interview, Jeff Skiles Airline Safety, Early Show, Plane Crash Hudson River, Jeff Skiles, US Airways Flight 1549, Travel, Video, Home News

In an interview with CBS' the "Early Show," Jeff Skiles, the co-pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, the flight which crash landed in the Hudson River in ...

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The Next FEMA

Max Stier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Human Capital Survey, Airline Safety, OPM, Federal Government, Economy, President Obama, Disaster Preparedness, Health Care, Public Servants, Jobs, Fema, Max Stier, Congress, President-Elect Obama, Mortgage Bailout, Weapons Spending, Politics News

This was originally published as an exclusive commentary for Washington Monthly. Barack Obama must begin rebuilding federal agencies fast--or risk se...

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George W. Bush Blew the Biggest British Terror Investigation Ever to Score Pre-Midterm Election Political Points... McCain '08!

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

I saw Ron Suskind give a talk tonight at Politics and Prose in Washington on his essential new book The Way of the World . I tore through this book i...

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Southwest Flew Cracked Planes, Say FAA Inspectors

NYT Via CNBC | Mathew L. Wald | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Federal Aviation Administration may know considerably less about the state of airline safety than it claims, a parade of witnesses and lawmakers s...

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Four Airlines Under FAA Investigation

AP | DAN CATERINICCHIA, | Posted 05.25.2011

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Four U.S. airlines are being investigated for failing to comply with federal aviation regulations. Federal Aviation Administration officials on Wedne...

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