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Bird Strike Sends Delta Flight Back To Phoenix Airport

AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Bird Strikes, Faa, Phoenix Airport, Travel, Arizona, Pilots, Utah, Ntsb, Sky Harbor, Phoenix, Air Safety, Miracle on the Hudson, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Salt Lake City, Flock, Delta, Bird Strike, Airlines, Home News

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...

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Rescue Efforts Called Off In Coast Guard-Marine Corps Plane Crash Search

AP | CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Helicopter, Recovery, Faa, C-130, Carl Grigonis, Missing, Super Cobra, Samuel Leigh, Adam Bryant, San Diego Bay, Pacific Ocean, Danny Kreder, Ah-1w, Plane, Jason Moletzky, Recovery Efforts, John F. Seidman, Che Barnes, Rescue Efforts, Plane Crash, Rescue, Survivors, Sam Leigh, Monica Beacham, Thomas Claiborne, Coast Guard Marine Plane Crash, John Seidman, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — The search for nine people missing when a U.S. Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine Corps helicopter over the Pacific Ocean is...

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Northwest Pilots and the FAA: Snoozing? Cruising?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Aviation Administration, Northwest Airlines, Faa, Snoozing Pilots, Airline Travel, Safety, Business News

The case of the Northwest Pilots keeps getting funnier and funnier. Of course, it wouldn't be one bit amusing if it had happened to me.

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Sony to Release This Is It Sequel, This Is Also It

Andy Borowitz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Michael Jackson, Andy Borowitz, This Is It, Faa, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Walter Cronkite, Billy Mays, Facebook, Sony, Directv, Chris Farley, Comedy News

"When we put together This Is It, we thought it was it, but it turns out it wasn't it," said Sony spokesperson Carol Foyler.

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Northwest Pilots' Licenses Are Revoked By FAA

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneap...

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Pilot Fatigue to Blame?

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Airline Safety, Faa, Safety, Airplanes, Pilots, Sleep Deprivation, Airlines, Sleep, 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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Rule For New Planes Means More Airbags

NPR | By Adam Hochberg | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Passengers, Air Travel, Passenger Safety, Flight Safety, Faa, Amsafe, Plane Crashes, Seatbelts, Airbags, Airbags on Planes, Travel, Airlines, Flying, Flights, New Rule, Home News

AmSafe is supplying the product to most major U.S. airlines to help comply with a new government crash standard. The rule has been phased in slowly ov...

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As Airlines Cut Corners, Pilot Fatigue Could Run The Industry Into The Ground

DailyFinance | Bruce Watson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Northwest Airlines, Faa, Northwest Flight 188, Federal Aviation Administration, Airplanes, Pilot Fatigue, Airlines, Airline Industry, Business News

On Wednesday night, Northwest Airlines (DAL) Flight 188, an Airbus A-320, overshot its destination by 150 miles before the pilots re-established conta...

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Northwest Jet Crew Overflies Minneapolis Airport By 150 Miles

AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 10.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Northwest Airlines, Airplane Landing, Flight Overshot, Faa, Minneapolis, Federal Aviation Administration, Overshoot, Minneapolis Airport, Home News

MINNEAPOLIS — Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minnea...

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Sheriff Jim Saves Chistmas, Guns and Solves Heene Balloon Hoax

Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Larry Abrahamson, Balloon Boy Hoax, Richard Heene, Faa, David Lane, Lance Hering, Balloon Boy, Najibullah Zazi, Polygraphs, Falcon Heene, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Bill O'Reilly, Wolf Blitzer, Denver News

When Falcon let loose the truth on prime time to Wolf Blitzer, even Barney Fife could have figured it out. By his own admission, that was the first moment the light came on for local Sheriff Jim Alderden.

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United, US Airways Face Millions In Safety Fines From FAA

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver

Read More: Boeing, Federal Aviation Administration, American Airlines, Denver International Airport, US Airways, Faa, United Airlines, Denver News

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday proposed levying multimillion-dollar fines against United Airlines and US Airways for safety violations, including flying a plane after mechanics stuffed shop towels into an engine.

The agency said it has proposed a $5.4 million fine against US Airways of Tempe, Ariz., for operating eight planes on a total of 1,647 flights from October 2008 to January 2009 in violation of safety directives or the company's own maintenance rules.

The agency also said it is proposing a $3.8 million fine against United of Chicago for operating one of its Boeing 737 aircraft on more than 200 flights with shop towels covering openings near where oil collects in the bottom of the engine instead of using protective caps required by the carrier's maintenance procedures.

Under FAA rules, the airlines have 30 days to present mitigating evidence before the agency can impose the fines. It's not unusual for fines to be reduced as the result of negotiations.

The hefty fines reflect the large number of flights that were allowed to carry passengers in violation of safety requirements, FAA spokeswoman Alison Duquette said. The agency doesn't know how many passengers were on the flights, she said.

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FAA Will Modify Airspace Rules Over Hudson River

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Hudson River Plane Crash, Hudson River Helicopter Crash, New York, Hudson Plane Helicopter Collision, Hudson River Crash, Faa, Airspace Rules, New York News

NEWARK, N.J. — The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will change rules for the airspace over the Hudson River in New York City f...

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Nearly Nine Percent Of Southwest Fleet Uses Unapproved Parts; FAA Investigating

AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

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DALLAS — Federal officials say a maintenance company hired by Southwest Airlines used unapproved parts for repairs on some jets. The parts will...

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Chicago Air Traffic Controllers Fatigued, Over-Worked: Study

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Air traffic controllers who direct planes in and out of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport have too little time off between shifts...

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Flash! FAA Requires More Data Points on Airbus A330. Volunteers, Anyone?

Gerald Sindell | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: No One Could Have Anticipated, Colgan Air, Air France, Failure, Faa, Flight 447 Search, World News

Every air accident is the result of someone failing to imagine or anticipate a combination of circumstances that should have been anticipated by someone. And I'll be you dollars to donuts that someone, or maybe even a whole lot of someones that worked on the design of the Airbus A330 has a pretty good idea of what went wrong.

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The Arrogance of FedEx

James P. Hoffa | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Faa, Fred Smith, Boeing, FedEx Corp, Federal Aviation Administration, Congress, Nlra, Teamsters, Rla, Business News

FedEx CEO Fred Smith is always full of surprises. First, he threatened to pull his Boeing contract if Congress passes a provision of the Federal Aviat...

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Air Force One Pictures: New York Daily News Invites Readers To Photoshop Their Own

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

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Like the rest of America, I just can't wait to see the poster or the brochure or the diorama that's so super-important that New York City needed to be terrified and traumatized in the process of its creation.

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Manhattan Low-Flying Plane Scare: HuffPost Reader Catches Close-Up Video Of Plane

Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

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SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS OF THE AIR FORCE ONE FLYOVER ON APRIL 27 UPDATE: Louis Caldera, Director of White House Military Affairs and responsible for...

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FAA: Wildlife Strikes On The Rise, Destroying Planes

npr.org | By Deborah Tedford | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

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The annual number of collisions between aircraft and wildlife quadrupled from 1990 to 2007 and poses a growing threat to aviation, according to a Fede...

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Plane Circling Lower Manhattan Is A "Photo Op," FAA Says UPDATED VIDEO

Huffington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Home

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***UPDATE*** The Director of the White House Military Office released this statement apologizing the "confusion and disruption" caused by the flight o...

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Bird Strike Data Released By FAA

AP | MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN | Posted 05.25.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — Airplane collisions with birds or other animals have destroyed 28 aircraft since 2000, with New York's Kennedy airport and Sacramen...

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Fix the Airlines Instead of Bailing Out Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Indianapolis, Wall Street Bailout, Small Business, Sales, Ronald Reagan, Img, Faa, Business Travelers, Bailouts, Cincinnati, Travel, Airport Security, Business, Southwest Airlines, Air-Traffic-Control, Airport Delays, Memphis, Dayton, Louisville, Marketing, Kentucky, Lexington KY, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Bill Clinton, Air Traffic Control, Mark McCormick, United Airlines, Washington DC, Airports, Don McNay, Harvard Business School, American Airlines, Air Travel, Airline Industry, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Bermuda, Business Travel, Deregulation, Jimmy Carter, Entrepreneurship, Airlines, Productivity, Chris Rock, Business News

I used to schedule an out of town trip then meetings the next day. Now I can't. I am not sure if I will get back or if I will get home exhausted and stressed.

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Bird Strike Records Proposed Confidential By FAA

AP | MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN | Posted 04.27.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to keep secret from travelers its vast records on where and how often commercial p...

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Midway Airport Privatization Approval Delayed By FAA

Crain's Chicago Business | John Pletz | Posted 02.12.2009 | Chicago

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The Federal Aviation Administration's approval of the privatization of Midway Airport has been delayed because the new operator still is negotiating s...

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"Travelnomics" - What Travelers Might Expect for 2009

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

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Travel Industry Leaders and Influencers, FAA, DOT, Virgin America, Share '09 Predictions in Latest Report by Cheapflights.com We're all asking ourse...

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