“The fact that a compliant airplane suffered from two deadly crashes in less than five months is clear evidence that the current regulatory system is fundamentally flawed and needs to be repaired,” the staff wrote in the report released early Wednesday. The report highlights the need for legisl...
U.S. FAA probed for Boeing 737 MAX approval: report The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is investigating the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its approval of Boeing 737 MAX, two of which have crashed. A worker walks next to a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane parked at Boeing ...
The reason is simple and had the investigation been thorough the NTSB would have known that an engine likely failed which will cause an Islander like this airplane to do a roll in the direction of the failed engine at a speed below minimum control airspeed known as VMCA. VMCA in this airpl...
An FAA inspector in California who spoke on condition ofanonymity told the newspaper a pilot now "could go all the waythrough to become a 747 captain, if you will, having never gonebefore the FAA." Agency records show that Hanjour was certified as an "AirplaneMulti-Engine Land/Commercial P...
For more than six decades, the Federal Aviation Administration has relied on employees of airplane manufacturers to do government-required safety inspections as planes are being designed or assembled.
Any airline pilot that can't manually fly the airplane he's sitting in, shouldn't be flying at all!! 回复↓•永久链接•Report A. Highsmith 大约1 年以前 2 Downvote Upvote Amen to that! 回复↓•永久链接•父级•Report Larry Toler 大约1 年以前 64 Downvote Up...
For instance, I don't think the FAA grounds all aircraft that use a particular jet engine when one airplane has a single engine failure in flight. I don't think the Dragon Capsule launches even use the same second stage as the StarLink launches. (But I may be wrong about that - can'...
After close calls, FAA to consider requiring airplane black boxes to record 25 hours The Federal Aviation Administration says it will work to require all cockpit voice recorders (CVRs), often called black boxes, to capture 25 hours of information ...
“It is a matter of physics that if in fact a following airplane stays above the preceding airplane, the following airplane will never encounter the wake of the preceding plane,” he said. * Other aviation sources say that, at a minimum, the FAA was obliged to say what it knew about th...
the new faa referrals include a number of assaults on airplanes to passengers and flight attendants, as well as threats and attempts to enter the flight deck or open an airplane door. reported unruly passenger incidents rose by almost 500% in 2021 to 5,981, which included 4,290 mask-...