Government Shutdown Grounds Aviation Safety Inspectors

"Since President Trump has failed to reach agreement with Congress-not once, but three times since September 30-to fully fund the federal government, Federal Aviation Administration aviation safety inspectors were off the job as of midnight last night. These PASS-represented employees-more than 4,000-are responsible for the oversight, certification and surveillance of the entire American aviation system, including all general aviation and commercial aircraft, pilots and flight instructors, and repair stations both in this country and abroad.

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Long Beach is in the early stages of considering stiffer fines for airlines that violate the city's noise ordinance at Long Beach Airport The prospect of enacting tougher fines to keep airlines from operating at Long Beach Airport during hours when they are supposed to be quiet is leading to some worries that such a move could backfire. Long Beach's airport noise control law sets a curfew that's intended to prevent flight operations from taking place between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. The law hasn't been changed since 1995, and LGB's leaders have broached the prospect of enacting stiffer fines, or even reducing an airline's ability to schedule flights, as a method of deterring out-of-curfew flights.

FAA probes reason storm snarled flights at Kennedy airport

The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's actions during a winter snowstorm that caused major disruptions at Kennedy Airport. The FAA says it will seek to determine whether the Port Authority complied with regulations requiring the timely removal of snow from all aircraft movement areas.

A timeline of Trump’s actions during the Hawaii false alarm

As Hawaiians catch their breath following the jarring missile alert mishap over the weekend, scrutiny has reached the White House and how it grappled with the mistaken alarm. A message went out to the people of Hawaii on Saturday, telling them to seek shelter due to an incoming ballistic missile threat.

Hawaii rattled after alert of incoming missile is mistakenly sent

A screen shot take by Hawaiian citizen Alison Teal shows the screen of her mobile phone with an alert text message sent to all Hawaiian citizens on January 13, 2018. / AFP / Alison TEAL Honolulu, An alert warning of an incoming ballistic missile aimed at Hawaii was sent in error Saturday, sowing panic and confusion across the US state -- which is already on edge over the risk of attack -- before officials dubbed it a "false alarm."

100 million people affected by East Coast’s deep freeze

About 100 million people faced a new challenge after the whopping East Coast snowstorm: a gusty deep freeze, topped Saturday by a wind chill close to minus 100 on New Hampshire's Mount Washington that vied for world's coldest place. Jaw-clenching temperatures to start the weekend throughout the Northeast hit Burlington, Vermont, at minus 1 and a wind chill of minus 30. Both Philadelphia and New York were shivering at 8 degrees.

Best of 2017: Stop that plane – The frantic race to halt a deportation

Protesters voice their opposition to an immigration ban imposed by President Donald Trump at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Credit: Matt Mills McKnight This week Crosscut is running some of our best stories of the year, as selected both by our editors and by popularity with readers.

Charges filed in Croatia after death of Afghan migrant girl

Delta Air Lines and other carriers that operate out of Atlanta's airport say they expect to be running normally by Tuesday, after a fire and blackout there. Their long-sought political goal within grasp, Republicans in Congress are set to catapult sweeping $1.5 trillion tax legislation through the House, rolling over a dozen GOP defectors from high-tax states.

UN: Coalition airstrikes kill 136 in Yemen in 11 days

President Donald Trump's administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain's National Health... President Donald Trump's administration is publicly blaming North Korea for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain's National Health Service. China's government has criticized President Donald Trump's decision to label Beijing a rival and called on Washington to accept the rise of a more powerful China.

400 Delta Flights Scrapped After Atlanta Airport Outage Chaos

Delta Air Lines Inc. and other carriers worked to get thousands of stranded passengers onto planes after a major electrical disruption in Atlanta crippled service at the world's busiest hub, extending flight cancellations into a second day. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport still had 411 inbound and outbound cancellations on Monday after 1,183 the day before, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking service.

Holiday travel chaos ahead after Atlanta airport outage

Thousands of people were stranded Monday morning at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where more than 1,000 flights were grounded just days before the start of the Christmas travel rush. A sudden power outage that Georgia Power said was caused by a fire in an underground electrical facility brought the airport to a standstill Sunday about 1 p.m. All outgoing flights were halted, and arriving planes were held on the ground at their point of departure.

Bomb-detection units urged at transit hubs

In this undated photo provided by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, stand-off explosion detection units, left, are deployed in a corridor at The Metro in Los Angeles. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, wants the Transportation Security Administration to speed up plans to equip transit hubs with the screening devices that can detect suicide vests like the one that exploded in a New York City subway tunnel on Dec. 11, 2017.

Sen. Schumer: Bomb-detection units needed at transit hubs

Screening devices that detect suicide vests like the one that exploded in a New York City subway tunnel are being tested in a Los Angeles transit station, but U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday the Transportation Security Administration should speed up plans to deploy the technology nationally. "The fact that we have this new, potentially life-saving technology at our fingertips - an ability to detect concealed explosives worn by cowards looking to do us harm - demands the federal government put both the testing and the perfecting of this technology on the fast-track," Schumer said.