Outage led to 5 close calls, FAA says
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LOS ANGELES -- A three-hour air traffic control outage Tuesday that grounded hundreds of flights across the West also led to five close calls in which planes didn&#39;t keep a recommended minimum distance between each other, the FAA said Wednesday.
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A security breach and a flashlight  battery explosion shut down four terminals at Los Angeles  International Airport for nearly four hours on Saturday,  delaying dozens of flights and clogging traffic for miles on  surrounding city streets.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - A small plane attempting an emergency landing crashed into two houses in Sanford, Florida, on Tuesday, killing at least five people and causing an intense fire, investigators said.
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LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles International Airport was shut down early Saturday because of a possible security breach and a separate incident at an international terminal security screening station, an airport spokesman said.    No information was immediately available on the incident at Tom Bradley International Terminal, airport spokesman Harold Johnson said...
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The government has set up a hotline to register complaints about flight disruptions that occurred over the Christmas holiday weekend, the Transportation Department's inspector general said on Friday.
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Days of bad weather, a computer malfunction and sick airline employees put tens of thousands of travelers in holiday limbo Saturday, with Comair canceling all its flights and US Airways trying to reconnect thousands of pieces of luggage with their owners.
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Flights to and from Los Angeles area airports were halted because of an outage at a radio- communications facility. The Federal Aviation Administration halted all departing flights
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Control cables were broken in the NASCAR plane that crashed into two suburban homes, killing five people earlier this month, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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Parts of Los Angeles international airport are temporarily closed down amid reports of a security breach.
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WASHINGTON, DC - An error by the co-pilot caused the second-worst air disaster in US history, which killed 265 people in November 2001, National Transportation Safety Board staff said Tuesday.
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The failure on Friday of a computer system used to help track airplanes flying across the U.S. led to delays and cancelled flights -- and federal officials still aren't sure what went wrong.
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The Federal Aviation  Administration's failure to properly maintain communications  equipment led to Tuesday's breakdown of radio contact between  air controllers and pilots over parts of the western U.S.,  officials said on Wednesday.
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A shortage of experienced air traffic controllers has resulted in a "staffing emergency" that is jeopardizing safety in the sky and on runways in Atlanta, Chicago, New York and Southern California, according to the union representing the nation's 14,800 controllers.
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A snow storm packing strong winds caused flight delays and closed highways across the central United States, leaving at least five dead in road accidents, US media reported on Sunday.
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At 4:30 pm PT, Tuesday afternoon: radio communications between controllers on the ground and airplanes in route go down at the federal aviation facility that controls the separation of planes over much of California, Arizona and Nevada.
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LOS ANGELES - Four terminals at Los Angeles International Airport were shut down for about three hours Saturday after a passenger bypassed security at one terminal and a flashlight battery exploded during screening at another, authorities said.    The two incidents a half-hour apart on the busy Labor Day weekend appeared to be unrelated, said FBI spokeswoman Cathy Viray...
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Airline flights to and from airports within a huge swath of the southwestern United States were grounded for several hours Tuesday when the region&#39;s radio and radar system broke down, according to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman.