FAA: Kentucky tower staffing violated rules
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The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledges that it violated its staffing policies Sunday when only one air traffic controller was on duty at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport -- where a Comair jet crash killed 49 people.
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PATRICK SPRINGS, Va. Airport officials in Virginia say pilots of at least 20 other planes decided it was too dangerous to land at the airport near where a Hendrick Motorsports plane went down.
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Airplanes passed dangerously close to each other in at least five instances after a computer failure knocked out radio contact between pilots and air traffic controllers across the West, a union official said Wednesday.
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Supervisors at Israel's Ben-Gurion international airport twice halted air traffic Wednesday because pirate radio stations were interfering with control tower communications.
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The coordinator of football officials for the Southeastern Conference said Sunday that the crew in the Tennessee-Florida game made an error with the clock Saturday night in Knoxville, Tenn.
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A Web site commissioned by the TSA to help travelers whose names were erroneously listed on airline watch lists had security issues, a Congressional report says.
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A communications failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility forced some airports in the West to hold flights on the ground in some cases for more than three hours Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
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Then, a computer system failure that grounded all of Comair&#39;s flights Saturday, and about 90 percent of its flights Sunday, leaving travelers stranded at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
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Preparing for the launch of 50 new flights from Reagan National Airport on Sunday, the airline has demanded that baggage handlers work overtime to prevent service disruptions like those that angered customers over Christmas weekend.
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The crane accident that sent a worker plummeting 40 stories to his death and injured three others occurred at a Donald Trump hotel-condominium tower recently cited for a series of violations.
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A U.S. Army helicopter made what the military called a "hard landing" Thursday morning south of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, injuring two pilots.
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United Air Lines said an operational error during routine system testing of its computer system was the preliminary root cause of a computer failure that forced the airline to cancel and delay U.S. flights yesterday.
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By Amy Burroughs, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 24--MURRAY, Ky. -- A Murray Middle School teacher was suspended with pay Friday after she was accused of inadvertently trying to buy marijuana from a Kentucky State Police trooper.
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About 400 workers at the American Airlines maintenance base in Kansas City will lose their jobs, The Associated Press reported Thursday.
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Commercial aviation returned to normal Wednesday morning after an apparent computer glitch disabled radios and radars at a US air traffic control center in southern California, disrupting flight schedules nationwide.
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Months before the Comair jet crash that killed 49 people, air traffic controllers at the Lexington airport wrote to federal officials complaining about a hostile working environment in the tower and short-staffing on the overnight shift, according to letters obtained by The Associated Press.
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The Transportation Department's inspector general is reviewing air traffic control tower staffing policies after last month's plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people.