US crash air control understaffed
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The one air traffic controller on duty during a deadly US plane crash had his back turned, officials say.
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WASHINGTON : US government accident investigators blamed pilot error for the crash of an American Airlines Airbus A300 in New York in November 2001 that left 265 people dead, officials said.
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The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, the second-worst in American history, was caused by the pilot&#39;s &quot;unnecessary and excessive&quot; use of the rudder.
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BAGHDAD -- The US command has ordered changes in flight operations after four helicopters were shot down in the last two weeks, the chief military spokesman said yesterday, acknowledging for the first time that the aircraft were lost to hostile fire.
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LOS ANGELES -- Airport operations were back to normal early Wednesday following a radio failure at a Federal Aviation Administration control facility that tied up travelers for hours.
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Air traffic controllers were forced to use their personal cell phones to reroute hundreds of flights Tuesday after the Federal Aviation Administration's Memphis Center lost radar and telephone service for more than two hours, snarling air traffic in the middle of the nation.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says.
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Nearly two weeks since the Comair jet crash that killed 49 people, the air traffic controller on duty at the time has not returned to work, and those who know him are revealing next to nothing &#151; not even his name.
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 30 -- As federal authorities continue their investigation into Sunday's Comair jet crash that killed 49 people, independent safety experts said it is likely that a series of seemingly small events and decisions -- rather than any large single blunder -- led the pilots to...
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A federal agency blames improper rudder use and poor Airbus design for the Flight 587 crash that killed 265 in 2001. WASHINGTON - American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plummeted into a New York City
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has officially blamed pilot error for the crash of an American Airlines Airbus A-300 in New York in November 2001 that left 265 people dead.
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AAIB probe continues The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has issued an update (pdf) on its investigation into the 17 January crash-landing of a Boeing 777 at Heathrow, indicating that there "were no anomalies in the major aircraft systems" and that the "autopilot and the autothrottle systems behaved correctly and the engine control systems were providing the correct commands prior to, during, and after, the reduction in thrust".â¦
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Nearly two years before the fatal crash of Comair Flight 5191, a control tower supervisor at the Lexington airport reported staff shortages that "can cost lives."
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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 Tuesday afternoon, a Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman said.
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The co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 587 caused the November 2001 crash that claimed the lives of 265 people, the staff of the nation&#39;s airline safety agency reported Tuesday.
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A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says.
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(Washington-AP, Oct. 26, 2004 11:05 AM) _ The staff of a federal agency is blaming the co-pilot from Greenwich for a fatal crash of an American Airlines jet in 2001.