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• DC Subway crash injury lawyer suggests more safety training for Metro Train Drivers

  
  Landau Injury Law — Authority: 125
  After four metro drivers have been injured in train accidents since June, it appears that greater safety training is needed by DC Metro. Union officials have also called for more safety training for new and existing subway train operators. Having tried cases where the employer tries to rely on the injured workers’ ...
  4 days ago

• NTSB to meet on 2008 Motorcoach rollover in Texas

  
  Truck Drivers News — Authority: 123
  The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting on T uesday, December 8, 2009, at 9:30 a.m. in its Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, D.C. There is one agenda item. On January 2, 2008, a mot orcoach operated by Capricorn Bus Lines, Inc., under ...
  6 days ago

• Editorial: Commuters Beware

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Congress should extend federal standards to subway and light-rail lines, which are now haphazardly regulated in more than two dozen city and regional systems.
  6 days ago

• GETTING WHAT YOU PAY FOR IN MASS TRANSIT: GOVERNMENT WANTS MORE OVERSIGHT OF MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The idea is simple — since the federal government invests taxpayers’ money in transit systems around the country, it wants to exercise more oversight, particularly on safety issues.  Rachel Swarns reports in the New York Times that federal officials are concerned:  As subway and light rail systems try to cut ...
  2 weeks ago

• One dead in Los Angeles-area plane crash

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Three die in helicopter crash near Doyle, California

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Drunk pilot arrested in London

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Books of The Times: A Cool Pilot, but the Plane Was Cooler

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  William Langewiesche
  3 weeks ago

• OSAMA ON A DARE?

  
  The Electric Egg Cream — Authority: 122
  Almost two month to the day of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 , American Airlines Flight 587 crashed in Rockaway (Queens), New York on November 12, 2001. Bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic , the plane had taken off at 9:14 a.m. from JFK Airport and was carrying 260 people. Immediately after takeoff ...
  3 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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Plane flies 150 miles past its destination when pilots used their laptops in flight

  
  Geek With Laptop — Authority: 589
  Two pilots from Northwest Airlines on Flight 188 from San Diego to Minneapolis apparently got so engrossed in their laptops that they overshot their destination runway by 150 miles. According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report, Captain Timothy Cheney 53, and First Officer Richard Cole 54, only ...
  5 weeks ago

• US pilots lose licence after being lost on flight

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

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

  
  Technology News and Happenings - Techpresso.org — Authority: 150
  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, ...
  5 weeks ago

• Irony: NWA pilots land late because of scheduling discussion

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  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 ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Case of the Absent-Minded Pilots

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  I was in  Minneapolis the last few days and the talk of the town there all seemed to be about this Delta Airlines flight last week from San Diego to Minneapolis, where the pilots missed their destination, veered into Wisconsin, and then belatedly circled back to Minneapolis. The uproar over the pilot’s  ...
  5 weeks ago

• What Happened on Northwest Flight 188?

  
  Flight Wisdom — Authority: 118
  The Twin Cities Pioneer Press reports that the two pilots who overflew Minneapolis last week have advised the NTSB that the reason they lost track of time they were "discussing the new monthly crew flight scheduling system." The system was put in place as part of Northwests merger with Delta Air Lines. They both ...
  5 weeks ago

• Officials Query Pilots Who Missed Airport

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Investigators questioned the pilots of the Northwest plane but gave no public comments on what the pilots had said.
  5 weeks ago

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