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The FAA has issued new rules at San Francisco International Airport after two Air Canada pilots mistakenly lined up a jet to land on a taxiway, sort of a side road that four other planes were using to reach the runway. Federal officials have issued new rules for nighttime landings and control-tower staffing at San Francisco International Airport after an Air Canada jet nearly struck planes on the ground last month.
In the wake of last month's near-collision at SFO where an Air Canada passenger jet nearly crashed into four fully loaded airplanes on the taxiway, federal officials have made significant changes to how pilots land at the airport and how many air traffic controllers must be operating in the tower during nighttime hours, the Bay Area News Group has learned. The Federal Aviation Administration also plans to begin testing modified radar systems in a few months at its Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City - possibly also at the San Francisco airport - to allow the facility's ground surveillance systems to alert air traffic controllers when an aircraft is attempting to land on a taxiway rather than a runway.
On Friday an appeals court panel said that federal officials must reconsider their decision not to regulate the size of airline seats as a safety issue. One of the judges called it "the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat."
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North Texas has a new airline, but this one won't be competing with the likes of American and Southwest for its share of the traveling masses. Instead, Hillwood Airways, based out of Fort Worth Alliance Airport, is looking to entice corporate travelers and other high-fliers.
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen.
Exhorting that the government should encourage profitable entities within Air India, Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said that its subsidiary Air India Engineering Services Ltd should be kept separate from the parent company while making a decision on the flag carrier's divestment. Gadkari, who is a part of the group of ministers finalising the modalities of the airline's stake sale, was speaking at an event marking completion of maintenance of first private aircraft at AIESL's Nagpur facility.
The Put-in-Bay Airport, seen in the lower-right corner of this photo, will host Toby Keith and four other country bands on Thursday, Aug. 31. The Put-in-Bay Airport, seen in the lower-right corner of this photo, will host Toby Keith and four other country bands on Thursday, Aug. 31. PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio - Ohio's party island will be transformed into a country-music mecca later this month, in what local officials are calling the single most complicated event in recent Put-in-Bay history. Country star Toby Keith headlines a five-act show, dubbed Bash on the Bay , on Thursday, Aug. 31, in an event that involves: * Transporting by ferry two dozen semi-trucks, 10 tour buses, 15 food trucks and more, in the hours before the show.
A man is dead and two people are injured after a plane from Danbury Municipal Airport crashed at Candlelight Farms Airport in New Milford, Conn. on Friday, August 11, 2017.
The FAA recently published a Legal Interpretation regarding Flight ID that essentially requires the aircraft Flight ID to be accurate to the aircraft's flight plan. Therefore, if the aircraft operates or is likely to operate with a dynamic call sign, the ADS-B Out installation must be able to support pilot-entered Flight ID in order to be rule compliant.
At some point during many flights, the captain will calmly announce that there could be some bumps ahead and so passengers must be seated with their seat belts on.
Tehachapi Municipal Airport hangar owners, airport staff and the public expressed firm disapproval as the City Council voted to give $300,000 from the FAA's Airport Improvement Program to the airport in Bishop. The council on Aug. 7 voted 4-1 to transfer the funds despite hearing multiple concerns about projects at the airport that need attention, such as repairs to the cracked runway, drainage for hangars, a possible helicopter pad and taxiway road improvements.
My wife, the captain, and I were flying to AirVenture 2017 in our C-152 in July. We were on an IFR flight plan out of Gainesville,... On the Saturday night before Oshkosh opened, I was listening on my iPhone to KOSH tower for 27, wishing I was there instead of doing yard... The dictionary defines savvy as practical, knowledgeable and perceptive.
The review found the launch had to be terminated due to an independent contractor's ground equipment issue, rather than an issue with the rocket. Rocket Lab's investigation board has identified the root causes and corrective actions.
An American Airlines flight lurched violently over the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, sending drinks and people flying - and putting 10 in the hospital after landing in Philadelphia. Alex Ehmke and his family had spent nearly 10 hours in the air - flying home from a vacation in Europe, he told The Washington Post.
The why of the incredibly shrinking airline seat is no mystery, but one judge's outrage over them felt really good. The why of the incredibly shrinking airline seat is no mystery, but one judge's outrage over them felt really good.
Progressively smaller airline seats and progressively larger passengers are a poor match, to which anyone who has taken a commercial flight in recent years can attest. Congress, in April, rejected a bid to prevent airlines from further shrinking airline seats.
Congressmen Darin LaHood and Rodney Davis announced that the Federal Aviation Administration has awarded the Springfield Airport Authority a grant for $3.4 million to provide repairs to the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport. The Grant will be used to rehabilitate over 11,000 feet of service road repairs.
This composite of images released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows Air Canada flight 759 attempting to land at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco on July 7. At top is a map of the runway created from Harris Symphony OpsVue radar track data analysis.
In a recent B2B technology survey, ABI Research finds that 44% of manufacturing companies currently have 3D printers in operation, however, most of these deployments are for prototyping purposes only. This is set to change over the next ten years as the Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency approve more 3D-printed parts for use in commercial jet engines, and additive manufacturing specialists continue to innovate for production scale implementation in other industries.