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August 24, 2009
FOD Finder in Vancouver
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is the first commercial airport in the world to link a day and night camera to its existing Tarsier Foreign Object Debris (FOD) radar detection system. The new camera upgrades the airport's 24-hour automated runway debris...
August 24, 2009
Aeronautical Forensic Archiving Keeps Flying Safe and Confident
San Diego-based Forensic Imaging and Archiving (FIA) has introduced Aeronautical Forensic Archiving (AFA), which provides quality assurance by photographically documenting aircraft inspections, maintenance and/or repairs. AFA creates a permanent archive of an...
August 24, 2009
Safety Webinar Examines the Issues
This year has seen some of the worst controversies surrounding aviation safety in more than a decade as analysts debate the impact of such accidents as Colgan Flight 3407, the subject of Senate hearings yesterday, as well as Air France 447. For that reason...
August 24, 2009
Safety & Technology Trends
Former NTSB Chairman Joins Sequa Board Sequa has appointed Mark Rosenker, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), to its board of directors. A retired major general in the USAF Reserve, Rosenker served as NTSB chairman through July...
August 24, 2009
Security Shortlines
Flight Disrupted by Naked Man An incident on a Southwest Airlines flight where a man became combative and stripped naked left some passengers too shaken to fly. Flight 947, bound for St. Louis with a stop in Las Vegas, had to return to Oakland International...
August 24, 2009
Safety Rules & Regs
18th Meeting: RTCA Special Committee 206/EUROCAE WG 76 Plenary. The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 206: Aeronautical Information Services and Meteorology Data Link Services. The meeting will be held...
August 24, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks July 11, 2009 Masizo del Roraima, Venezuela BEECH A36 N354RA The wreckage was located on the "Ilu - Tepuy" mountain, within the sector of Masizo del Roraima, Bolivar, Venezuela. Pilot had filed a...
August 17, 2009
Hudson Mid-Air Under Intense Media Glare
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators continue to probe the Aug. 8 mid-air collision of a Piper Saratoga and a sightseeing helicopter carrying a pilot and five Italian tourists over the Hudson River, killing all nine people aboard both...
August 17, 2009
ATA: FAA Crew Training Unworkable
The Air Transport Association (ATA) has filed comments expressing "serious and broad concerns" about a FAA proposed regulation that would rewrite pilot, flight attendant, flight engineer and dispatcher training requirements. In particular, ATA...
August 17, 2009
ALPA Pays Homage
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) honored aviation's best at its 55th Air Safety Awards banquet Aug. 6, bestowing accolades on crews and individual pilots for outstanding work in the fields of safety, security, pilot assistance, as well as extraordinary...
August 17, 2009
DOT Probes Continental Tarmac Trap
The Department of Transportation (DOT) is investigating whether federal consumer protection laws were violated last week when 47 passengers were left stranded overnight on an airport tarmac in Rochester, MN. The DOT has asked Continental Airlines to explain...
August 17, 2009
DOT IG Has Issues with FAA Grants
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded $36.3 million in economic stimulus money to low-priority airport construction projects, according to a watchdog report. Transportation Department Inspector General Calvin Scovel also concluded that the FAA...
August 17, 2009
Industry/FAA Team on UAS
GE Aviation has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRDA) with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide a variety of operational and technical assessments to support integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) into...
August 17, 2009
Unmanned Air Systems: The Future is Now
Defense and industry officials got a glimpse last week of the latest in unmanned systems technologies, which many concede is the wave of the future for the U.S. military. More than 5,000 people from 30 countries took part in the world's largest exhibition of...
August 17, 2009
Conference Unveils NextGen Task Force Recommendations
Aviation Today's Avionics Magazine and standards-setting organization RTCA have teamed to present a conference, "NowGen NEXT," September 15 in Washington, D.C. The one-day conference, featuring FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt as keynote speaker...
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