Aircraft laser strike reports soared to a record high in 2023, jumping 40% from the previous year, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday. "The FAA takes this threat very seriously," said FAA Administrator Michael G. Whitaker in a videotaped statement. Laser incidents have ...
The ones providing a needful service need to be left alone and unfurloughed; the rest, done away with. Those cabinet and department heads that can't do it should be replaced themselves. Congress shouldn't have to micro manage a government agency. Folks need to realize that the teat ...
The article reports that the U.S. Congress will focus on renewing the laws that authorize and fund Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs for 2009. However, observers said that the FAA reauthorization could be delayed until after November 2009 or beyond as the nation heads into the ...
Federal investigators say some safety inspectors who helped set pilot-training standards for the Boeing 737 Max were unqualified and the Federal Aviation Administration seemed to mislead Congress about their competency. The FAA disputed part of the investigators’ conclusions on Tuesday. The agency said...
In a statement Thursday evening, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the FAA plans to grant temporary flight restrictions over some of the state's critical infrastructure sites. The full statement reads: "Since mid-November, New York has been carefully monitoring reports of drone activity and we ha...
COVID-19 vaccinations, US regional airline executives have renewed their call for a relaxation of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) controversial 1,500-hour flight-training pilot qualification standard, saying it imposes unnecessary barriers to entry into the profession, reports Travel Weekly...
Reports on the criticism by Congress of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) over the April 19, 1993 crash of an MU-2 airplane. Investigations of the crash; ...
The FAA disputed part of the investigators' conclusions on Tuesday. The agency said all the inspectors who evaluated the Max were fully qualified for the work they did, and it stood by its statements to Congress. In this April 26, 2019, file photo caution flags are shown on flight sensors...
A London Heathrow Airport spokesperson told CNN early Wednesday that they were “not aware of canceled flights and that flights to the US had left recently,” however, there were passenger reports of significant delays. Shabnam Amini told CNN that she and other travelers had been sitting on ...
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