1 month ago FAA administrator: 'Clearly, something was missed' that led to DC plane crash Testifying for the first time in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation, acting Federal Aviation Administrator Chris Rocheleau admitted that "something was missed." 2 months ago FAA to install new te...
Reports on the investigations by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) into the quality controls on Boeing Co.'s 737 plane production line. Inspections on horizontal stabilizers; Crash of a SilkAir 737-300 in Indonesia related to missing stabilizer fasteners; Production problems at Boeing; ...
Dennis Muilenburg, initially suggested that the foreign pilots were to blame. However, congressional investigators discovered an FAA analysis - conducted after the first Max crash - predicted there would be 15 more crashes during the plane's life span if the flight-control software wasn't fixed. ...
The statement signals that U.S. regulators have no immediate intention of grounding the 737 Max 8, breaking with a decision by China and Indonesia to tell its airlines to suspend use of the plane after this weekend’s crash that killed 157 people near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Even after the ...
Boeing's CEO personally called Trump to express his confidence in the jets, The New York Times reports. Megan TrimbleMarch 13, 2019 Plane Crashes Into Home, Killing 5 The twin-engine plane crashed into a home near Los Angeles on Sunday. ...
The study focused in particular on the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, a flight-handling mechanism that is believed to be at the center of both crashes. It comes on the heels of reports last month by the National Transportation Safety Board and the US Office of Special Counsel th...
John Hickey, of the NRC office dealing with industrial nuclearmaterials, said the enforcement actions — as well as virtually allthe missing material reports — involved extremely small amounts ofmaterial. For example, according to the NRC, between 1996 and 2001 a total of 11.3 curies of cesium...
1, authorities have received 3,988 reports of unruly passengers. More than 2,900 of those calls regarded passengers who refused to wear a mask as mandated by federal law to prevent COVID-19 spread. Six hundred and ninety-three calls prompted an investigation and 132 cases resulted in ...
” Stumo said. “It was a very fruitful and candid conversation. We hope he is taking the information regarding the latent defects in the plane seriously as well as the management failures at the FAA so that there is no third crash. Only a new leadership can restore trust in the FAA....
The FAA had evidence dating as far back as October, 1991, that Boeing 757 jetliners cause unusually dangerous wake turbulence, but the agency issued no public warning until last month--after the deaths of 13 people in two plane crashes believed to have b