Airborne 12.23.11: FAA Allows Pilots To Rest, TSA Pillories Petition, 2011′s True Aero-Innovators
Happy Holidays from the crews at Aero-News, Aero-TV and Airborne! Even though the year is coming to a surprisingly busy close (and thank God for that, eh?), there was plenty to cover this week in Airborne-land.
And as usual, there were items popping up all over the place, even as we tried to complete this [...]
FAA Proposes to Strengthen Airline Pilot Training
Federal aviation officials proposed the most wide-ranging overhaul of air crew training in decades Thursday, more than two years after a crash in western New York that was attributed to pilot error.
The Federal Aviation Administration proposal would require airlines to train pilots, flight attendants and flight dispatchers together in real life [...]
Crew Let FedEx Flight’s Speed Slip Too Much, NTSB Says
The crew of a FedEx cargo flight that crashed short of a Lubbock airport runway in January 2009 failed to maintain safe airspeed on the airplane’s final approach path, the National Transportation Safety Board ruled Tuesday.
The crew reacted too late to low airspeed warnings, and when they did, the plane went into [...]
NTSB Releases Initial Report on Fatal Gulfstream Crash
The National Transportation Safety Board has released an initial report about the Saturday crash of a Gulfstream G650 that killed four employees.
Tom Latson, the NTSB investigator-in-charge, gave the [...]
NTSB: More frequent safety checks of jets may be necessary
YUMA, AZ – Federal investigators said the mid-air rupture of a Southwest jet fuselage on Friday indicates there could be a need for more frequent safety inspections on 737 aircraft.
The exteriors of the jets are covered by lap joints, where sections of paneling overlap each other to help ensure stability. The National [...]
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