3 days ago by Robert Mark

You NEVER, EVER want to receive a letter like this one from the FAA telling you that all your months or years of hard work and effort to win your pilot’s certificate have just gone up in smoke. After flying past Minneapolis a few weeks back, the FAA pulled the certificates of both of the Air Transpo ...

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3 days ago by George Hatcher

October 2009 – In the November/December 2009 issue of FAA Aviation News, the focus is on winter flying safety, including icing avoidance strategies, safe operations on icy runways, snow/frost contamination, and more. In “On Thin Ice,” Aerospace Engineer Paul Pellicano writes about ice contamination, ...

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3 days ago by Brenda Yun

Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Learning, Food and Drink, Blogs, North America, United States, Airlines This is the best day of the week, in my opinion: You're in a midweek groove, but the weekend is in sight. That's a perfect metaphor for how I'm feeling this week in life, too. I'm past the ...

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3 days ago by Terena Thyne

Although the airline industry's old school of thought believed there was no need for airbags aboard planes, new government regulations looking to increase safety are making them mandatory. With crashes like the one in the Hudson River that only resulted in a few minor (more...)

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7 days ago

By now we have all heard of the dramatic landing of the passenger jet on the Hudson River on January 15th. The flight was immediately named “Miracle on The Hudson.” It was by all accounts a miracle that all 155 passengers and crew survived a crash landing on of all places a river. Landing a jetliner ...

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7 days ago by John Henry

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9 days ago by Rafster

A worried Iranian airline pilot asked passengers to start praying after his plane was hit by a technical glitch early on Thursday, highlighting once again the notorious record of Tehran's aircraft. The Aseman Airlines Boeing had taken off from Tehran airport after a six-hour delay, but had to return ...

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9 days ago by markdowe

SACRIFICING SAFETY IN 2006, 14 British service personnel died, after an RAF Nimrod MR2 crashed in Afghanistan. Yesterday, Wednesday, 28 October, the Ministry of Defence was accused of sacrificing safety in order to minimise costs. Charles Haddon-Cave, QC, found the loss of the Nimrod in September 20 ...

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12 days ago by Letters Editor

A placebo is something that is given for psychological, rather than physiological, reasons. The word came to mind recently, as I read or heard reports about an airline and various agencies investigating why a plane full of passengers overshot its destination. The investigators are trying to determin ...

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12 days ago by Tushar

Every commercial pilot, or a pilot that works with a crew, knows about a term called ‘CRM’. It stands for Crew Resource Management. So, what exactly does that mean? It just means that the captains must always use the resources that he has available to him – his co-pilot. A long time ago, the captain ...

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