The FAA is also investigating a June 25 Southwest flight that departed from aclosed runway in Portland, Maine.
FAA to install new tech to improve runway safety The Runway Incursion Device gives air traffic controllers audio and visual alerts to indicate the availability of a runway and is expected to be installed in 70 additional airports by the end of the year. 1 month ago FAA investigates false colli...
RunwaySafteyAreaBoundary The boundary of the Runway Safety Area (RSA). Shoulder An area adjacent to the edge of paved runways, taxiways, or aprons providing a transition between the pavement and the adjacent surface; support for aircraft running off the pavement, enhance drainage, and blast pr...
Runways and stopways Navigational aids Obstructions Taxiways Aprons Landmarks Once submitted to the FAA, safety critical data is validated and verified by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS). 使用法 The FAA Airports GIS program requires Esri data to be submitted as shapefiles only. Submi...
In the same year, the New York Times reported that near-misses on airport runways (“incursions”) had climbed to an all-time high, and that overworked, burnt-out air traffic controllers were falling asleep on the job and getting drunk at work. To put a number on it, the FAA self-...
Information can go up to 200 pages for long-haul international flights and may include items such as runway closures, bird hazard warnings and construction obstacles. Article content United Airlines said it had temporarily delayed all domestic flights and would issue an update when it learned more ...
“. . . Delta Engineering holds this FAA designation, known as Organization Designation Authorization (ODA), and is considered “one of the most powerful in the country”, says a source. –Mary Kirby,Runway Girl Network 273 STCs ISSUED ...
Last February, a FedEx 767 was cleared to land while a Southwest 737 was still on the runway at the Austin airport in foggy conditions. The National Transportation Safety Board said thetwo planes came within 150-170 feetof each other before the FedEx first officer Robert Bradeen spotted the...
Runway incursion reduction program (RIRP) surveillance system, NASA/FAA Atlanta demonstrationDiscusses a prototype Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) originally designed to receive ASDE-3 and ARTS-IIIA data. These two data sources were applied to safety logic to provide air traffic ...
"How can this happen?" Cruz asked. "How did air traffic control direct one plane on to the runway to take off and another plane to land, and have them both within 100 feet of each other?" Nolen said the incident is still under investigation by his agency and the National Transportation...