FAA Whistleblowers Continue To Point Out Safety Problems
WASHINGTON — In an unusual public rebuke, a government watchdog charged Tuesday that airline safety regulators have lagged in responding to urge...
WASHINGTON — In an unusual public rebuke, a government watchdog charged Tuesday that airline safety regulators have lagged in responding to urge...
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...
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...
Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011
The week-long closing of European airspace due to ash from Iceland's erupting volcano was very likely unnecessary beyond the first two days.
Eileen Ogintz | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Nathan Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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...
Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Lloyd Garver | Posted 11.17.2011
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
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 ...
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...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.08.2012