FAA, controllers fight over air safety
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The next time you board an airliner and buckle your seat belt, you are about to fly through a bitter labor dispute between some of the people most responsible for your safety in the skies.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is facing some of the same problems that are driving the airlines to bankruptcy, rising costs and declining income.
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The U.S. Transportation Department's   inspector general has urged the FAA to consider disciplining   two executives who failed to correct false information provided   to the commission that investigated the September 11 attacks,   the New York Times reported on Saturday.
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The nasty fight between American  Airlines and Europe's Airbus over a New York crash in 2001 that  killed 265 people has escalated as the U.S. government nears  its determination on Tuesday on the cause of the second-worst  air disaster in U.S. history.
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Federal regulators' narrow approach to solving one of the United States' biggest post-Sept. 11 fears -- a terrorist flying a plane into a nuclear power plant -- is under attack for adding to public safety concerns.
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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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Birds and wireless towers are a deadly mix Â a fact that preservationists and policy makers agree to. But the role of the regulators in keeping the two apart has been up in the air.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to blame both the pilot and Airbus for the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York.
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Pilots are worried about safety in an air travel system stretched tight, with airline work forces reduced.
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The Transportation Security Administration is trying again to reconcile the privacy rights of non-dangerous airline passengers with the security need to identify potentially dangerous ones.
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There has been a fair amount of public debate in the past few months concerning runway safety area improvements for Juneau International Airport.
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The crash of Comair flight 5191 at the airport in Lexington highlights both the remarkable record of the FAA in keeping the skies safe and the long-running concerns that the biggest threats may be on the ground
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A near-collision between a jumbo jet and another plane in August prompted US safety investigators on Tuesday to classify as unacceptable aviation regulators&#39; efforts to improve runway safety.
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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a near-collision of two airplanes on the runway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Friday.
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The Phoenix president of the air traffic controllers union said an FAA plan to condense training, create part-time slots and depend on split-shift schedules is a poor way to deal with an impending nationwide controller shortage.
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Comair has begun warning pilots to use "extreme caution" when navigating runways at the airport where a crash killed 49 people last month, saying some diagrams aren't accurate, according to an e-mail obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
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There are those few uninformed that spread ill will about commercial aviation. As is the case in just about anything, people who have no understanding of something love to pick it apart. I'm sure we all know someone who refuses to fly. Their reasons most likely include "I just don't feel safe on those things." The fact is, really, that airline travel is exceedingly safe, and becoming ever safer. I will try to explain exactly why this is. I'd also like to introduce general aviation, and relate what I know about the future of air travel. It is a sad fact that the general public knows very little about aviation, and yet has so much to say about it.