Maintenance Lapse Cited in FAA Radio Breakdown
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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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Radio interference that harms wireless network performance is a way of life, columnist Craig Mathias says. Fortunately, tools are available to help solve that problem.
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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 Federal Aviation Administration needs to improve its oversight of air carriers and passengers who bring hazardous materials onto airplanes, according to a report released yesterday
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By Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 7--A system failure caused some glitches on the station, and the shuttle traveled a little too far into space, directors say, but for the most part the Columbia Aeronautic and Space Association mission is going well.
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The Department of Transportation will investigate a computer glitch that stranded U.S. travelers over the weekend.
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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.
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The US continues to work to ease airspace congestion, the head of the FAA told reporters at a Monitor breakfast Wednesday. On Thursday, the FAA is expected to award a contract for a new air traffic control system.
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A three-hour air traffic control outage that grounded hundreds of flights across the West on Tuesday also led to five close calls in which planes failed to keep
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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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A computerized air traffic system experienced a temporary outage in South Florida, forcing controllers to ground some flights and resulting in at least four instances in which planes almost came too close together, officials said Tuesday.
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Blog: The site's downage was not actually downage, representatives say, but rather a network carrier issue that slowed it down.
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A glitch in a regional radar system caused some flights in and out of Southern California to be delayed Friday morning as the busy Memorial Day weekend began, officials said.
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An eight-year effort to upgrade the computers for the nation's air traffic control system is "facing obsolescence" before it has been completed, the Department of Transportation inspector general said in a report released yesterday.
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Numerous flights were delayed or canceled at Reno-Tahoe International Airport during a five-hour period while the Federal Aviation Administration was doing equipment repairs during a heavy snowstorm.
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A breakdown of a radio system linking air traffic controllers to high-altitude planes over Southern California forced federal officials to halt outgoing flights for three hours Tuesday evening at several airports, including Los Angeles
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A Federal Aviation Administration contracting program, initially hailed as a way to make the agency more efficient, was so poorly managed that it cost the government millions of dollars in overruns, according to a government investigative report and legislators who reviewed its conclusions. The FAA...