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The parents who reported last week that their 6-year-old son may have been on board a giant, runaway balloon could potentially be in more trouble with the Federal Aviation Administration for making a phone call than for setting loose the saucer-shaped craft, aviation experts say.
The Federal Aviation Administration may be expanding its investigation into suspected structural problems found in a small portion of American Airlines jets, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A new computer system key to modernization of the nation's air traffic control system has run into problems, raising doubts about whether it can be operational 15 months from now when current computers must be replaced, union officials said Wednesday.
Responding to criticism that his agency has become too cozy with companies it regulates, the new head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday the FAA will stop calling airlines "customers," as he announced steps to ensure air carriers comply with safety orders.
Air traffic controllers will begin using satellite technology in December to track aircraft flying over the Gulf of Mexico, a significant milestone in the government's program to replace the nation's radar-based air traffic system, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Monday.
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that a deadly plane crash near Buffalo demonstrated a "complete inattention to basic details" compared with the "textbook greatness" of the safe landing of a jetliner on the Hudson River just weeks earlier.
Federal regulators are investigating American Airlines over structural repairs to its aging fleet of MD-80 series aircraft.
Federal officials are giving Southwest Airlines until Dec. 24 to replace unapproved parts on about 50 airplanes.
Federal regulators propose requiring modifications to the engines of some Boeing 777 jets to prevent ice from forming in fuel lines during long flights, a problem blamed for the crash of a British Airways plane last year.
There is less safety oversight of "on-demand" flight operators than commercial airlines even though those smaller operations are often riskier, a federal watchdog said Thursday.
Airline passengers could be stranded on tarmacs no longer than three hours under legislation introduced Tuesday in the Senate.
About a week and a half ago, the Federal Aviation Administration closed the air space over Raleigh-Durham International Airport and several other corridors above North Carolina. For about 28 minutes on the afternoon of June 19, all flights were halted over much of the eastern half of the state.
U.S. inspectors would conduct more checks of overseas aircraft repair stations under a House bill approved Thursday that seeks to address safety concerns as major airlines send maintenance work overseas.
The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into whether some crew members of the airline whose flight crashed into a home in February, killing 50 people, recently flew more hours than generally allowed by federal limits.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that each time a bird hits an airplane, it should be reported to the Federal Aviation Administration.
An appeals court says the Federal Aviation Administration can't be held financially responsible for the collision of two small planes that killed a popular Chicago radio personality nearly 10 years ago.
An administration official says the New York City mayor's office and a slew of other local police agencies were warned ahead of time that a backup Air Force One and military fighters would be flying low around the Statute of Liberty.
The Federal Aviation Administration says a single-engine plane strayed into restricted air space near the U.S. Capitol, and has now landed at an airport in Maryland.
Airplane collisions with birds or other animals have destroyed 28 aircraft since 2000, with New York's Kennedy airport and Sacramento International reporting the most incidents with serious damage, according to Federal Aviation Administration data posted for the first time Friday. And the problem appears to be growing.
A survivor of the jetliner that ditched in the Hudson River after hitting birds and most other public commenters opposed a government proposal to make secret its data on when and where such bird strikes occur.
The Federal Aviation Administration predicts that nearly 9 percent fewer passengers will board major U.S. airlines for domestic flights this year, and that traffic on international flights will also decline as the bleak economy curbs business travel and vacation plans.
The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to keep secret from travelers its vast records on where and how often commercial planes are damaged by hitting flying birds.
Federal aviation officials say the plane that crashed in Montana killing 14 didn't have a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder and wasn't certified to carry commercial passengers.
Southwest Airlines will pay a fine of $7.5 million for flying planes that had missed critical safety checks — $2.7 million less than government regulators initially ordered.
Air traffic controllers are taking aim at a proposal to consolidate dozens of meteorologists scattered around the nation into two centers, saying it could deprive airports of local and on-the-spot weather expertise crucial to flight crews.
FAA and NORAD Changed Records to Accord with Cheney LiesA senior Counsel for the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, has written a book exposing the degree to which our response to 9/11 was disorganized and and outdated–geared to respond to an attack from Russia rather than from terrorists.
Pilots of wayward jet lose licenses -The Federal Aviation Administration revoked the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots Tuesday in an extraordinary letter in which the agency chastised the pair, saying they endangered the public by flying an hour and half without contacting controllers "while you were on a fr …
F.A.A. Revokes Licenses of Pilots Who Missed Airport -Less than a week after two Northwest Airlines pilots got distracted in their cockpit and flew more than 100 miles beyond their destination airport, the Federal Aviation Administration revoked their licenses.
As airlines cut corners, will pilot fatigue run the industry into the ground?the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are once again discussing a radical change in rules about pilot flight limits. Current regulations, which have been in effect since the 1960s, only allow pilots to fly for 100 hours per month or 8 hours in any 24-hour period.
FAA probes plane's landing on Atlanta airport's taxiwayThe Federal Aviation Administration is investigating how an international flight into Atlanta's major airport landed on a taxiway instead of a runway early Monday. (See: it isn't just private pilots that make the news.)
Environmental work boosts fears of bird strikes at Teterboro airportA massive project to restore a wildlife habitat in the Meadowlands has raised fears of increased bird strikes at nearby Teterboro Airport, which already has the highest rate of hits in the region.
Pilot's final words implicate weather-AudioChilling audio released by the FAA seems to confirm suspicions that weather was the cause of a small plane crash that claimed five lives back in July.
Are Some Airlines Just Too Dangerous To Fly?A new study calls for standardizing aircraft maintenance across the globe, but until then, says one co-author, the answer just might be yes.
For the purposes of this little exercise, state, local and federal government departments, agencies and programs apply. If the government runs it, and it serves a purpose to the people in some way, it's "socialist."
FAA suspends 2 air traffic controllers over Hudson crashThe Federal Aviation Administration has suspended two air traffic controllers over last week's collision of two aircraft over the Hudson River that killed nine people, a spokeswoman said.
FAA: 2 employees investigated in NYC mid-air collisionWASHINGTON -- Authorities have suspended an air traffic controller who was talking on the phone during last week's deadly mid-air collision over New York's Hudson River, along with a supervisor who was out of the building at the time.
"Why The FAA Fails" The FAA has a built-in conflict, because it has two different missions. Nearly all Western nations have separated air-safety regulation from air traffic control.
Flights of fancy: Why airborne automobiles will never take offWHAT is it about "flying cars" that makes otherwise sensible engineers lose touch with reality? Ever since Glenn Curtiss, a seaplane pioneer, racing legend and the Wright brothers' rival, tried to make a flying car early in the last century, tinkerers have dreamed of having …
Pilot dies flying plane to the US The captain of Continental Airlines flight 61 has died while flying the plane from Brussels to New York. The plane made an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport shortly before 1200 (1600 GMT).
Continental Captain Dies During Flight To NewarkA Continental Airlines flight from Brussels has landed safely at Newark Liberty International Airport after the plane's captain died mid-flight Thursday morning, CBS 2 has learned.
FAA orders review of regional airlines' training Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed near Buffalo, New York, on February 12, killing all 49 passengers and crew members aboard. One person on the ground was also killed.
I was recently travelling across the United States in a modern airline talking with the head of maintenance for a major aircraft manufacturer about standard setting in the aircraft world.
News 8 Investigates: Airline mechanics who can't read EnglishSupervisors in Texas repair stations say they are supposed to oversee the repairs of dozens of untrained mechanics who can't read the manuals and can't write down the work they've done.
Change we can believe in-FAA tells NYPD not to comment as 1000's evacuateWhat a friggin waste of money. So many people out of work and homeless. Lets have a photo op, scare some people and blow some of their money while we are at it.
Kudos to the Wall Street Journal on that video. I woke up this morning and the first thing I saw on Twitter was.... A large commercial jet flew low over the Hudson River in NYC, accompanied by military aircraft. Officials say it is a drill.
FAA Hearing on Celeb Pilot -- Blow-By-Blow (Literality!! LOL)Excerpt: So remember the video we got of the pilot who got serviced by a porn star as he flew his helicopter over San Diego? He's the celeb pilot who got in hot water flying Tommy Lee ...
Authorities: Pilot of stolen plane lands, now on runThe pilot of a small Cessna 172 aircraft reported stolen from a Canadian flight school flew hundreds of miles across the Midwest, landed on a dirt road in Missouri late Monday and took off on foot, federal officials said.
FAA Says Public Accountability Is DangerousThe Federal Aviation Administration thinks you can't handle the truth. The agency has quietly moved to ban public disclosure of bird-strike records — information that chronicles where and when commercial aircraft were hit by birds.
Witness: Plane that crashed in Mont. jerked wildlyA single engine turboprop airplane that crashed just short of Butte airport jerked to the left before nose-diving into a cemetery, killing all 14 people aboard, a witness said Monday.
FAA says Texas fireball was meteor, not a UFO on Yahoo! Newsthe FAA says that the HUGE object in the sky wasn't debris from the satellite collision that happened a few days ago that could've killed people. Instead, it was still a HUGE meteor that AGAIN, entered our atmosphere that could have killed people.
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