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WASHINGTON, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Air Traffic Controllers Association President Paul Rinaldi issued the following statement stressing the need for safe staffing of front-line, fully certified air traffic controllers on all shifts, particularly the midnight (overnight) shifts, in the wake of Wednesday morning's incident at DCA Tower (Washington National Airport). "During the incident at DCA on the midnight shift Wednesday morning, there was one FAA supervisor on...
LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Grass Airport has been presented with the Airport Safety Mark of Distinction Award by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Awarded at the FAA Southern Region 2011 Airport Safety and Certification Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on January 24, the airport received this honor for construction of its new general aviation runway and associated taxiways and for the development of an airport operations department. The FAA developed this...
Findings suggest models can lead to safer work schedulesWashington State University sleep researchers have determined that the air traffic controller in the crash of a Lexington, Ky., commuter flight was substantially fatigued when he failed to detect that the plane was on the wrong runway and cleared it for takeoff.Writing in the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention, the researchers come short of saying his fatigue caused the accident. But they say their findings suggest that...
A US government proposal on Friday is pushing for mandatory measures for airlines to give pilots longer rest periods and scale back duty time in an effort to combat cockpit fatigue.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposal could force airlines to hire more pilots, change flight schedules and revamp union work rules.Major airline companies are quite sensitive to any mandate that would raise costs just as their finances are improving following an economic downturn.Unionized pilots with...
ATLANTA, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) today issued a statement regarding the company's cooperation with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the investigation of Northwest Flight 188. Delta and its Northwest operating subsidiary continue to openly and fully cooperate with the NTSB and FAA to complete the investigation. The pilots in command of Northwest Flight 188 remain suspended until the...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After years of progress and modernization designed to prevent aircraft from crashing into mountainous terrain, the Federal Aviation Administration has taken a big step backward in Fairbanks, giving in to staffing shortages created by its own imposed work rules and B-scale pay rules and removing the critical safety service given by controllers to pilots navigating the challenging surrounding terrain. The problem stems from the unsafe...
By Katz, Peter Just because you're awake, doesn't mean you re alert The FAA is paying renewed attention to human fatigue in aviation, particularly in air transport operations. This issue has troubled the NTSB to such an extent that it has appeared on its annual "Most Wanted Transportation Safety Improvements" every year since the list was first published in 1990. This past June, the FAA held a symposium in Vienna, Va. About a week before the symposium, the NTSB had issued a safety...
The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that a report on a 2006 incident involving broken runway lights in Miami was erroneous. NTSB spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said the report posted Monday on the board's Web site represented an incomplete investigation into several broken runway lights at Miami International Airport on Dec. 26, 2006, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel said. The report alleged that the pilots of British Airways Flight 209 were responsible for breaking the lights...
By Halimah Abdullah WASHINGTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration announced a series of runway safety initiatives Monday designed to avoid the types of conditions that led to a 2006 crash in Lexington, Ky., that killed 49 people and two recent near-collisions at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The FAA's measures include installing more than $400 million worth of runway status lights at major airports; the lights would warn pilots when it is unsafe to cross or enter a...
LEXINGTON, Ky. _ A civil trial over the Comair Flight 5191 crash in 2006 that was scheduled for Monday has been canceled. Only two lawsuits against Comair remained Friday afternoon in Fayette County, Ky., and one was so close to settlement that the participants asked for more time for negotiations, said a secretary in U.S. District Judge Karl Forester's office. The family in the other case had hired a new lawyer this week and was unlikely to participate in the trial. Two liability claims...
