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FAA stories: 72 news summaries

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RUNAWAY PLANE

FAA Revokes Northwest Pilots' Licenses

Distracted duo have 10 days to appeal

Minneapolis Star Tribune Minneapolis Star Tribune Oct 27, 09 4:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - The distracted pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 are no longer pilots: the FAA today announced it has revoked the licenses of Timothy Cheney, 53, and Richard Cole, 54, for the incident last week in which the pair overshot their destination airport by 150 miles. The pilots, who attributed the... More »

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FAA • Northwest Airlines • NTSB • pilot • distraction • license

 Naptime Nothing New for Pilots 

Cole, Cheney interview by NTSB investigators

USA Today USA Today Oct 26, 09 5:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pilot naps and arguments are hardly unique in airline screw ups, statistics reveal as investigators try to figure out what caused Northwest Airlines flight 188 to overshoot its destination airport by 155 miles. Pilots Timothy Cheney and Richard Cole, who were interviewed yesterday NTSB investigators, claim they missed the Minneapolis... More »

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FAA • flight • Northwest Airlines • NTSB • pilot

runaway plane

Cockpit Recorder No Help in Northwest Flight Probe

Device captures just half an hour; record of 78-minute gap lost

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Oct 23, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Because the aircraft has an old cockpit voice recorder, the world may never know why the pilots of Northwest Flight 188 lost contact with ground control for 78 minutes. The recorder on the Airbus A320 has a maximum memory of 30 minutes, after which it tapes over itself. So investigators... More »

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Wisconsin • FAA • Northwest Airlines • San Diego • NTSB • Delta • pilot • Minneapolis airport • pilot fatigue • Air National Guard • airlines • F-16 • NORAD

(Newser) - The National Transportation Board's view of the events that caused last weekend's crash over the Hudson River doesn't jibe with the FAA's, the Wall Street Journal reports. The NTSB chronology released yesterday suggests that errors from air traffic controllers—one of whom was one the phone to his girlfriend at... More »

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FAA • plane crash • NTSB • Hudson River • air traffic control • air traffic controllers • National Transportation Safety Board • helicopter crash • midair collision

Air Traffic Controllers Suspended Over Hudson Crash

During it, one was on phone with girlfriend

New York Daily News New York Daily News Aug 14, 09 1:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The two air traffic controllers on duty at Teterboro Airport during Saturday's mid-air collision over the Hudson River have been suspended and will likely be fired, the New York Daily News reports. Investigators have found that one of the men was on the phone to his girlfriend at the time... More »

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New York City • FAA • NTSB • Hudson River • air traffic control • air traffic controllers • helicopter crash • Hudson crash

 Southwest 
 Probed 
 After Hole 
 Opens Midflight 


Dallas Morning News Dallas Morning News Jul 15, 09 1:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Southwest Airlines' maintenance practices are coming under tight scrutiny after a football-sized hole opened in the top of a Boeing 737 midflight and forced an emergency landing, reports the Dallas Morning News. Nobody was injured, but the NTSB and FAA have launched probes and lawmakers are being briefed on the... More »

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FAA • aircraft • Southwest Airlines • Boeing 737

One in 3 Airports Hasn't Studied Bird-Strike Risk: FAA 

150 haven't taken required steps

USA Today USA Today Jun 5, 09 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - A third of US airports haven't completed a mandated study of their bird-strike risk, USA Today reports. "This problem has been ignored and shuffled to the side by the aviation community," said an airport wildlife-control expert. The 150 airports won't be named until the FAA has contacted each... More »

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FAA • US Airways • plane crash • wildlife • airport • airlines • bird strike

FAA May Shut
20 Air Traffic Weather Offices

Under plan, 2 forecast centers would serve entire country

Washington Post Washington Post Jun 5, 09 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FAA may close 20 weather offices in air traffic control centers across the US, and instead connect all air traffic controllers to a pair of stations in Maryland and Missouri, the Washington Post reports. The money-saving plan would mean cutting controllers’ face-to-face contact with weather officials, something technology has... More »

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weather • FAA • union • air traffic control • air traffic controllers • National Weather Service • forecaster

Inspector Warned FAA
a Year Before Buffalo Crash


New York Times New York Times Jun 3, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A former inspector says he warned the Federal Aviation Administration a full year before February’s crash near Buffalo that Colgan Air might have trouble flying the model of plane involved in the disaster, the New York Times writes. Christopher Monteleon reported that Colgan’s pilots flew fatigued, exceeded manufacturer... More »

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FAA • plane crash • whistleblower • Federal Aviation Administration • Colgan Air • Christopher Monteleon

 Pilot Transcripts Show 
 Idle Talk, Then Terror 

Flight 3407 transcript released ahead of public hearing

Associated Press Associated Press May 12, 09 12:21 PM CDT
(AP) - Just seconds before the worst US air crash in more than 7 years, the pilot exclaimed "Jesus Christ" and moments later his first officer screamed as Flight 3407 plunged to the ground. A cockpit voice-recorder transcript released today shows that only minutes before the Feb. 12 crash outside Buffalo,... More »

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investigation • FAA • black box • plane crash • NTSB • pilot • ice • Buffalo • Flight 3407

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration scrapped a Navy flight today that would have brought an anti-sub patrol plane into New York’s airspace, Bloomberg reports. The announcement came 30 minutes after a city email said the aircraft would be flying up and down the Hudson River. “I don’t know... More »

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New York City • FAA • Maine • US Navy • Air Force One • Federal Aviation Administration • flyover • Brunswick Naval Air Station • training flight

Pilot Training
Faulted in
Buffalo Crash

Captain did opposite
of proper procedure
when plane stalled

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal May 11, 09 1:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The captain of the commuter plane that crashed in Buffalo in February, killing 50 people, wasn't properly trained on the plane's stall-protection system and had failed several flight tests, the Wall Street Journal reports. When the plane warned of an imminent stall, the pilot did the opposite of proper procedure,... More »

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investigation • FAA • plane crash • NTSB • Continental Airlines • airplane • pilots • Buffalo • Colgan Air

Hackers Expose Holes in Air Traffic Safety

Vulnerabilities abound ahead of planned $20B FAA upgrade

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal May 7, 09 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Civilian air traffic computer networks are riddled with security holes, and hackers have breached them several times in the past few years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Intruders could gain access to operational systems by first hacking into administrative areas using 763 separate “high risk” holes in those systems,... More »

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FAA • air travel • hackers • computer network • air traffic control • security breach • Federal Aviation Administration

ANALYSIS

Flights at Calif., Fla. Airports Most Likely to Hit Birds

Sacramento has
highest US strike rate

NPR NPR Apr 27, 09 3:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Airplanes using airports in Sacramento, Calif., Kansas City, Mo., and Denver are the most likely to hit birds while landing or taking off. NPR used the Federal Aviation Administration’s recently released bird-strike data to calculate airports’ “strike rate”—the percentage of planes that collided with birds relative... More »

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FAA • Kansas City • Montana • JFK Airport • Sacramento • Memphis • bird strike

 Plane-Bird Collisions Up: FAA 

Agency compelled to release statistics after Flight 1549

Associated Press Associated Press Apr 24, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Collisions between airplanes and birds have increased dramatically since 2000, with the number of instances at 13 major US airports doubling. New York’s JFK topped the list with the most avian accidents—30—since 2000, with California’s Sacramento International the runner-up at 28, the AP reports. Both are... More »

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FAA • JFK Airport • Sacramento • accident • airport • statistics • bird strike

(Newser) - A new wrinkle has emerged in the investigation of the plane crash that killed 14 people in Montana Sunday, ABC News reports. Just two weeks ago, the FAA issued a directive ordering operators of the Pilatus PC-12 model to check for a potential problem with a control mechanism. The directive... More »

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FAA • Montana • plane crash • Butte • Federal Aviation Administration • Pilatus

Icing, Overload Considered
in Montana Crash Probe


Associated Press Associated Press Mar 23, 09 8:06 PM CDT
(AP) - Speculation over what caused the crash of a single-engine plane into a Montana cemetery shifted today to possible ice on the wings after it became less likely that overloading was to blame. While descending yesterday in preparation for landing at the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte, Mont., the turboprop plane... More »

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FAA • Montana • plane crash • NTSB

(Newser) - Add this to the mix in the Buffalo plane crash: Southwest Airlines warned its pilots just weeks ago about a landing glitch involving the same runway the Continental flight was destined for, CNN reports. It seems an earthen dam near the runway interferes with signals in a so-called instruments landing,... More »

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FAA • plane crash • NTSB • Southwest Airlines • Continental Airlines • navigation error • Buffalo • Flight 3407 • warning

(Newser) - The Federal Aviation Administration today released remarkable audio recordings capturing pilot Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger’s decision to land US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River. Sullenberger can be heard discussing the Jan. 15 landing with air-traffic control, CNN reports. As controllers scramble to find a runway for... More »

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FAA • US Airways • Hudson River • air traffic control • Chesley Sullenberger • Flight 1549 • Hudson crash

 Feds Find Birds 
 in Both Engines 

Investigation confirms pilot's story in Hudson River crash

Associated Press Associated Press Feb 4, 09 4:36 PM CST
(AP) - Federal safety officials say they've confirmed that there were birds in both engines of the US Airways airliner that landed safely in the Hudson River last month. Remains from both engines have been sent to Washington's Smithsonian Institution to have the particular bird species identified. Officials added that an engine... More »

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FAA • New York • birds • plane crash • Hudson River • LaGuardia Airport • Flight 1549

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