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Archives :: Air Safety
Displaying 1 - 20 of 275 stories.
September 8, 2008
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air safety inspectors found an overall adherence rate of 98 percent in conducting more than 5,600 audits of Airworthiness Directive (ADs) compliance at over 100 U.S. air carriers, Acting Administrator Robert A. Sturgell...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3884.html August 25, 2008
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is conducting a month-long review of the Eclipse 500 Very Light Jet (VLJ) in response to allegations of safety issues when the VLJ was certified by the federal agency in 2006. The charges will also be aired at a...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3751.html August 18, 2008
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) intends to fine American Airlines a total of $7.1 million for allegedly flying jetliners that did not comply with maintenance requirements and for violating employee drug and alcohol testing procedures. The stiff...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3662.html August 11, 2008
The Department of Transportation (DOT) will auction off a prized takeoff and landing slot at Newark International, as the first step in an experiment designed to ease nationwide travel delays caused by congestion in New York area airspace. Additional slot...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3603.html August 4, 2008
Air safety investigators continue to probe the serious July 25 incident in which a Qantas flight en route from Hong Kong to Australia made an emergency landing in Manila after a large gaping hole developed on the fuselage of the Boeing 747-438 (VH-OJK)...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3513.html July 28, 2008
A Qantas flight en route from Hong Kong to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila July 25 after a large gaping hole developed on the fuselage of the Boeing 747-400, prompting the plane to lose cabin pressure. All 346 passengers and 19 crew aboard...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3434.html July 21, 2008
Twelve years after TWA Flight 800 exploded off Long Island on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 people aboard the Boeing 747, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a final rule aimed at reducing the threat of fuel tank explosions aboard commercial...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3357.html July 14, 2008
A French judge has ordered Continental Airlines and five individuals to stand trial over the crash of an Air France Concorde SST on July 25, 2000, killing 113 people. The judge said the defendants, including the person who oversaw the development of the...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3287.html June 30, 2008
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which handles whistle blower complaints from federal workers, has received 32 allegations from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees this year, one fewer than the watchdog agency received between 2004-2007. This...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3156.html June 23, 2008
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) June 17-19 held an aviation fatigue management symposium, the first event sponsored by the U.S. aviation agency that focused specifically on managing fatigue in all aspects of aviation, whether suffered aboard...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3062.html June 16, 2008
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to take steps to manage pilot fatigue, which the Safety Board cited as factors in two non-fatal regional jet mishaps in 2007 and one incident earlier this...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/3000.html June 9, 2008
A TACA Airbus A320-233 (El-TAF) skidded off a rain-soaked runway at Tegucigalpa-Toncontin Airport (TGU) in Honduras on May 30, veered onto a road, smashing into cars and a building. TACA Flight 390, a regular flight from San Salvador's Comalapa International...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2913.html June 2, 2008
An air ambulance service based at the Charlotte County (FL) Airport has been shut down by federal officials for alleged air safety violations. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on May 23 suspend Air Trek's operating license. According to the FAA's...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2856.html May 26, 2008
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has implemented new programs aimed at reducing air travel delays during the peak summer travel season. It is hoped that the projects and flight limitations imposed at the New York area airports will keep passengers...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2784.html May 19, 2008
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its 44th annual Safety Report showing that the 2007 global accident rate of 0.75 hull losses for every million flights by Western-built jet aircraft was slightly higher than the 0.65 rate...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2721.html May 12, 2008
The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) held their 53rd annual Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS) April 29-May 1 in Palm Harbor, Florida. The fact that the event had a record number of attendees belies...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2624.html May 5, 2008
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) as the Pentagon prefers to call them, were developed to be three-dimensional creatures, that is military machines designed to conduct "3-D" dull, dirty and dangerous missions deemed...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2561.html April 28, 2008
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is taking steps to strengthen the reporting system designed to classify airspace errors, in response to an embarrassing report by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Inspector General (IG) that revealed the...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2473.html April 21, 2008
No one died during 2007 in U.S. scheduled long-haul and regional air carrier accidents. And deaths in general aviation accidents dropped to 491, their lowest total in more than 40 years, according to federal air safety officials. But on-demand aircraft -...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2416.html April 14, 2008
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was subjected to a fresh salvo of stinging criticism in the wake of revelations that an FAA supervisor in the Dallas field office intentionally ignored missed maintenance inspections at Southwest Airlines. The central...http://defensedaily.com/air_safety/2333.html
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