Air Safety

FAA Whistleblowers Continue To Point Out Safety Problems

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.08.2012

WASHINGTON — In an unusual public rebuke, a government watchdog charged Tuesday that airline safety regulators have lagged in responding to urge...

Southwest Investigating Close Call At Midway Airport

AP | Posted 03.13.2012

DALLAS — Southwest Airlines says it's cooperating with federal officials investigating a close call on a runway in Chicago last month. A Southw...

Southwest Grounds 80 Planes After Hole Rips In Cabin

AP | By TERRY TANG and WALTER BERRY | Posted 06.03.2011

PHOENIX (AP) -- Federal records show cracks were found and repaired a year ago in the frame of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 that made an emer...

Volcano Is Quiet but Dispute Over Closing of European Airspace Remains Unsettled

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Christine Negroni

The week-long closing of European airspace due to ash from Iceland's erupting volcano was very likely unnecessary beyond the first two days.

What Price Will You Pay for Your Child's Safety?

Eileen Ogintz | Posted 05.25.2011

Eileen Ogintz

More than seven million children under the age of two fly on their parent's laps on American air carriers each year. Many parents don't appreciate that the use of safety seats can be a matter of life and death.

Who Will Weep for the Geese? New York's Mass Avian Murder Plot

Nathan Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Nathan Robinson

On Friday, The New York Times reported that the State of New York is planning to murder approximately 170,000 Canada geese, as part of a strategy to increase the safety of passenger aircraft.

Robert Harding, Obama's Second TSA Nominee, Withdraws From Consideration

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is back to square one – again – in finding a transportation security chief to shore up the natio...

Miracle on the Hudson, Not the Only Aviation Success Story

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Christine Negroni

Every year there are aviation events that go unnoted because actions of pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers prevented something bad from becoming awful.

Air Sickness

Lloyd Garver | Posted 11.17.2011

Lloyd Garver

We've all gotten so absorbed in our computers that we lose track of everything else. Of course, when I do it, I don't have 144 passengers sitting behind me.

Pigs Don't Fly:

Times Online | Jan Raath | Posted 05.25.2011

It took a wild pig on the runway at Harare International Airport to reveal what many Zimbabweans have long feared: the country's Civil Aviation Author...

Air Marshal Surge By February 1, Ordered By Obama

ABC News | Anna Schecter and Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

President Barack Obama has ordered a "surge" of federal air marshals to be in place by Feb.1 in what officials said was a "race against time," with ot...

Northwest Pilots Who Overshot Minneapolis Airport Were Working On Laptops

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their p...

Bird Strike Sends Delta Flight Back To Phoenix Airport

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

PHOENIX — Authorities say a Delta Air Lines flight headed to Utah has safely returned to Phoenix after one or more birds hit the aircraft. Fede...

In Lockdown at Newark Airport

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

I'm sitting at Newark airport waiting for my entire family to disembark. The entire terminal is being cleared out, and all because one guy walked backward through an exit. This is the level of farce that passes for airport security here.

Feds Interview Northwest Pilots Who Overshot Minneapolis Airport

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Federal investigators interviewed the crew of the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles on ...

Mystery Grows: Why Is Bush Admin Suppressing Air Safety Survey?

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which has a mandate to enhance the safety of air travel, has been suppressing huge quantities of da...