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May 12, 2008
Approach to Canadian Air Safety Oversight Needs Improvement
There are several weaknesses in how Transport Canada has managed the transition to a new approach for overseeing air transportation safety, says the Auditor General of Canada, Sheila Fraser, in a recently released report. Under the new approach--a requirement...

May 5, 2008
Safety Board Probes a Manned/Unmanned NAS
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) as the Pentagon prefers to call them, were developed to be three-dimensional creatures, that is military machines designed to conduct "3-D" dull, dirty and dangerous missions deemed...

May 5, 2008
ATC Equipment Checks Less Detailed
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has intentionally become less detail-oriented in the way it maintains and certifies the safety of its ground based equipment, such as radar and instrument landing systems. The change is aimed at making agency...

May 5, 2008
A New Era for Era
SRA International is acquiring Era Corp., a privately held provider of advanced surveillance technologies for the air traffic management, airport operations, military and security markets. Reston, VA-based Era has nearly 300 employees and develops...

April 28, 2008
Dallas Cover Up Revealed
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is taking steps to strengthen the reporting system designed to classify airspace errors, in response to an embarrassing report by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Inspector General (IG) that revealed the...

April 28, 2008
Sumwalt Questions Regional's Safety Margins
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Vice Chairman Robert Sumwalt used a recent Board hearing on a Shuttle America runway overrun to raise questions regarding the regional airline industry's overall commitment to air safety. The Safety Board determined...

April 28, 2008
NTSB Safety Forum on UAVs
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is holding a three-day forum on the safety of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) April 29-30 in the NTSB Board Room and Conference Center in Washington, DC. The forum will provide an opportunity for the Safety...

April 28, 2008
Improvements to FAA Air Safety Ordered
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced a series of measures to improve the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) safety inspection program and tasked a newly created independent review team with crafting recommendations to improve the air...

April 28, 2008
ACI-NA Opposes Slot Auctions At LaGuardia
Airports Council International - North America (ACI-NA) maintains that capacity expansion, both at the airport and in the national airspace system, is the most effective means of reducing congestion. "However, in those instances where such measures are...

April 28, 2008
Alaska Governor OKs Loans for NextGen Aircraft Safety Equipment
A bill offering a low-interest loan program to aircraft owners who install new data link technology in their aircraft was signed by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on April 9 in Juneau. Senate Bill 249, which Palin sponsored and introduced Jan. 25, provides Alaskan...

April 28, 2008
Improving African Air Safety
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently announced further measures to improve aviation safety in Africa. "African safety has improved, but the accident rate is still nearly six times the global average. This must change. IATA is...

April 21, 2008
Remarkable Safety Record for U.S. Air Carriers  
No one died during 2007 in U.S. scheduled long-haul and regional air carrier accidents. And deaths in general aviation accidents dropped to 491, their lowest total in more than 40 years, according to federal air safety officials. But on-demand aircraft -...

April 21, 2008
New Measures on Air Delays
The Department of Transportation (DOT) has unveiled new measures to strengthen passenger protections and cut flight delays this summer. DOT finalized changes to its so-called bumping rule, which doubles the limit on compensation airlines must pay passengers...

April 21, 2008
Next-Gen Sensors May Help Avert Airline Disasters  
Everyone on board a Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) jetliner died when it collided with a light aircraft and exploded at a Milan, Italy airport in 2001. The smaller plane had ended up on the runway where the SAS aircraft was taking off. The following year...