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• Fed’s Takeover Move Triggered by Metro Crash

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 610
  ‘Wednesday Morning on the Metro’ courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’ The Washington Post wrote Sunday about the Obama administration’s intent to push Congress to implement a large change in how subway safety is regulated and enforced across the country by DOT. Currently, the feds really have no power to ...
  4 hours ago

• One dead in Los Angeles-area plane crash

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  SAN GABRIEL, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) — One person died on Saturday afternoon when a small plane crashed on a road in Los Angeles County, California.The crash happened at 4.17 p.m. local time in the city of San Gabriel, about 10 miles from Los Angeles.Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration ...
  19 hours ago

• Three die in helicopter crash near Doyle, California

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  DOYLE, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) — A medical helicopter crashed near the California-Nevada border on Saturday morning, killing three people on board, federal officials said.The crash happened around 2 a.m. local time about 11 miles south of Doyle, an unincorporated community in California’s Lassen County. It is ...
  19 hours ago

• Zombie Story

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 132
  The story that just...will...not...die. Controllers Were Slow to Notify Defense Command of Errant Jet ”Air traffic control supervisors delayed nearly an hour in notifying Norad, the military air defense command, that a Northwest Airlines jetliner was not responding to radio calls, the head of the Federal ...
  1 day ago

• Drunk pilot arrested in London

  
  Gadling — Authority: 691
  Filed under: Europe , North America , United Kingdom , United States After (another) pilot was found drunk in London this week, the issue of pilot inebriation has become a frequent discussion topic . Since 1997, 11 commercial pilots, on average, have tested positive for alcohol every year. According to ...
  2 days ago

• #FDASM: + ca change, + c’est la meme chose

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 413
  The FDA is holding a public hearing on the “Promotion of FDA-Regulated Medical Products Using the Internet and Social Media Tools.” There is a tremendous amount of buzz on Twitter and blogs about this meeting which will hear 60 speakers, some more than once. As ABC News Business division reports this morning “ ...
  3 days ago

• Updated: Plane slams into house; 2 killed.

  
  Velozia Air. Aviation news, facts, & opinions: expanded and uncomplicated. — Authority: 114
  A Cessna 310J similar to the one involved in the accident. (Photo by AHunt. Public Domain) Imagine that you are at your house, quietly going about your day, when a plane bursts in through the garage door, explodes, and sets your cars and house on fire.  That is exactly what happened last Friday (October 30, 2009) ...
  1 week ago

• NWA188 Not Dying Addendum

  
  Get the Flick — Authority: 132
  For those that didn’t already overdose on the story below -- NWA188 - The Story That Won’t Die -- you might be interested in an article I wrote for AVweb about the NMAC mentioned . Say Again? #35: Lessons Unlearned ”According to the FAAs analysis, the first error occurred when a controller failed to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aviation regulators bar two Northwest pilots from flying

  
  The Latest Travel News and Information — Authority: 141
  US aviation regulators on Tuesday revoked the commercial flying licenses of two Northwest Airlines (NWA) pilots who flew over Minneapolis airport and missed their landing by 150 miles. Pilots of the Minneapolis-bound Flight 188 on 21 October, en route from San Diego, lost contact with air traffic controllers for over ...
  2 weeks ago

• YEAH, WHEN PIGS FLY: TAKING DELTA’S NORTHWEST

  
  AskCherLock.com — Authority: 125
  I don’t know about you, but I have had a few bad flying experiences in the past. Rockin’ and rollin’ in snow storms; a wing that missed the ground by mere inches on a landing; and one nauseous experience in a sardine-can commuter flight, are but a few. Now we learn that the pilot and co-pilot of a Delta ...
  2 weeks ago

• US pilots lose licence after being lost on flight

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Oct 28 (DPA) Two airline pilots have had their licences withdrawn after they overflew their destination and were lost for more than an hour while they were toying with their personal laptops, US federal aviation officials announced in Washington late Tuesday.The pilots’ behaviour had been negligent and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nation Digest: NTSB says tire leak led to fatal bus crash

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 967
  The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that a slow leak in a charter buss front right tire led to a crash last year that killed 17 Vietnamese Americans.
  2 weeks ago

• Distracted (Moronic) US pilots get their licences revoked

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  WASHINGTON (AFP) – Two US pilots who overshot their destination by some 150 miles (240 kilometers) last week while talking and consulting their laptops have had their licenses revoked, aviation authorities said Tuesday. “The Federal Aviation Administration has revoked the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots ...
  2 weeks ago

• Distracted NWA pilots have licenses revoked

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 687
  The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of the two pilots in charge of the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles last week.
  2 weeks ago

• Northwest Pilots’ Laptop Use Could Spark Personal Electronics Ban in Cockpits

  
  Technology News and Happenings - Techpresso.org — Authority: 452
  The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their destination by 150 miles have told investigators that they were distracted because they were using their personal laptops. First Officer Richard Cole was allegedly helping Captain Timothy Cheney understand a new crew scheduling program while they lost track of time, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Irony: NWA pilots land late because of scheduling discussion

  
  Gadling — Authority: 691
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines The investigation into the overshooting Northwest Airlines flight continues. The National Transportation Safety Board has found that the pilots were distracted by conversations and the use of personal laptops when flying 150 miles past Minneapolis. One of ...
  2 weeks ago

• FAA revokes licenses of Northwest Airlines laptop pilots

  
  Aircrew Buzz — Authority: 458
  by B. N. Sullivan The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overflew Minneapolis in an Airbus A320 after having been out of radio contact with the ground for a period of time. The incident happened on October 21, 2009 during a flight from ...
  2 weeks ago

• The dog ate my homework and other lame excuses

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  The latest excuse offered by the pilots of Northwest flight 188 for missing the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles is, my laptop made me do it!Kinda. Actually in pilot-speak, they claimed they “lost situational awareness.” According to federal investigators, the wayward crew blamed their oversight on a perfect storm ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pilots who forgot to land were "working on their laptops"

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 540
  WASHINGTON — Two Northwest Airlines pilots tell federal investigators that they were going over scheduling using their laptop computers while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 15 read more
  2 weeks ago

• Reason for NWA 188 overflight revealed

  
  George S. May Business Blog — Authority: 134
  If you are already afraid to fly, this next one probably won’t make you feel any better.From WSJ:“This one isn’t about fatigue, it’s about complacency.In some ways, the latest update from the National Transportation Safety Board about Northwest Airlines Flight 188 from San Diego to Minneapolis confirms the ...
  2 weeks ago

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