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To the best of my knowledge, the FAA never disclosed this 2023-identified failure built into STARS to the outside world. But it did hold internal meetings to discuss the problem.
Pilots flying near Denver International Airport lost contact with air traffic control for almost two minutes on May 12.
A Newark air traffic controller says he's not sure if he'll ever return to the job after several equipment failures caused some air traffic controllers to lose communication with pilots in late April ...
ATLANTA - The Federal Aviation Administration says a communication failure at a Georgia facility that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. is causing flight delays around ...
The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we should copy its ...
The National Transportation Safety Board found Boeing and the FAA responsible for "multiple system failures," leading to Alaska Airlines' door blowing off mid-flight last year near Portland, Oregon.
Inadequate training and supervision at Boeing cited as root cause of 2024 mid-air door plug incident FAA faulted for failing ...
The Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center, located in Longmont, directs planes flying at high altitude between airports in nine states.
In January 2024, a door plug blew out minutes into a flight originating from Portland, Oregon, at about 16,000 feet.
The new secretary might not be aware of the recent history of FAA enforcement. In 2015, the FAA introduced the “Compliance Philosophy.” The Compliance Philosophy marked a shift in the FAA’s safety ...
The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from ...
The mid-exit door plug separated from the Boeing 737 Max 9 passenger plane on Jan. 5, 2024, minutes after Flight 1282 took ...