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The pilot union at US Airways Group Inc. is asking for federal mediation in its negotiations with the airline.
In a story of Nov. 11, The Associated Press quoted Barry Sweedler, a former official of the National Transportation Safety Board. The story should have specified that Sweedler's comments were made Sept. 23. He died on Oct. 27.
The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis are part of a larger problem — eroding professionalism among commercial airline pilots, Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Randy Babbitt said Wednesday.
Pilots for Southwest Airlines have approved a new 5-year labor contract that the union president said has smaller pay raises than his members wanted.
Hawaiian Airlines pilots have announced they believe their contract negotiations with the company have reached an impasse.
Minneapolis airport police say controllers tried to contact the pilots of a wayward Northwest Airlines jetliner by radio, data message and cell phone after it failed to land as scheduled.
A federal judge Monday tossed out a Continental Airlines Inc. lawsuit accusing nine pilots of getting sham divorces so their ex-spouses could collect the pilots' retirement benefits while they kept flying.
Air India has grounded a flight crew after reports that they engaged in a fist fight at 30,000 feet above sea level, the Times of India reported on Monday.
The regional airline that operated a plane that crashed and killed 50 people in upstate New York has been pushing pilots to fly even if they say they are too sick or too tired, a union official told Congress on Wednesday.
United Airlines has furloughed another 290 pilots, part of previously announced plans to shrink its work force.
Hawaiian Airlines pilots have voted to authorize a strike, although no walkout is imminent.
The pilots union for US Airways filed suit Wednesday against the federal government's pension agency, claiming it is not doing enough to investigate charges that the airline's pension plan was mismanaged.
Crowded skies and exhausted pilots are a bad mix, the airline industry and pilot unions agree, but they're struggling over what to do about it.
The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed an initial finding that the captain and first officer of a flight that overflew its destination in Hawaii inadvertently fell asleep while the plane was on autopilot.
A small number of Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots — just 215 — have agreed to retire as part of a company incentive program designed to reduce the number of pilots to cut costs, according to a union tally disclosed in a memo to members Thursday.
A federal program to recruit more tugboat pilots may have backfired by allowing thousands of novice captains to take the helm and contributing to a 25 percent increase in the number of accidents on the nation's rivers.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by older pilots who sued their union over an interpretation of a law that raised the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots to 65.
The Yemenia Airbus 310 that crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros may have been attempting a go-around in rough weather for another approach when it hit the sea, a pilots association says.
The death of the 60-year-old captain of a Continental Airlines jetliner as he flew 247 passengers across the Atlantic could spark a new debate over age limits in the cockpit.
An Air France union urged pilots Monday to refuse to fly Airbus A330s and A340s unless their external speed and altitude monitors have been replaced.
UPS Inc. won't furlough any of its pilots for at least 10 months, after the union reached a deal with the world's largest shipping carrier that includes more than two-thirds of the cost cuts the company wanted.
Pilots at Southwest Airlines Co. voted down a new contract that would have given them pay raises in the midst of a slump in the airline industry.
Marc Dubois grew up to be a pilot, just like his dad.
Eligible Delta Air Lines Inc. pilots who elect to retire as part of an incentive program designed to reduce the number of pilots at the world's largest airline operator will receive up to nine months of severance pay and other benefits, according to the union.
UPS Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, is seeking $40 million in cost savings this year from its pilots, who are looking for alternatives to furloughs.
On a Wing and a Prayerby Rick Reilly Now this message for America's most famous athletes: Someday you may be invited to fly in the backseat of one of your country's most powerful fighter jets. Many of you already have -- John Elway, John Stockton, Tiger Woods to name a few.
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 …
Schoolboy's Bedroom Raided After TV Aerial Interferes With Air Traffic Control"A schoolboy, Nickie Chamberlain, was surprised when Government officials arrived at his bedroom and confiscated his television aerial because it was interfering with planes landing at a nearby airport."
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.
Wayward Pilots Were Working on Their LaptopsWASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company policy while their plane overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles, the National Transportation Safe …
Pilots Say Laptops Contributed to Distraction - WSJ.comThe pilots of Northwest Flight 188 have told federal investigators that a bathroom break, chatting with a flight attendant in the cockpit and then taking out their laptops to discuss work schedules created distractions that led to more than an hour of radio silence with air-traff …
I had a Loss of Situational awarenessI dozed off on a short flight taking off from Chennai to Bangalore. I heard the expat captain say something about 'deplaning' and got up thinking the 55 minutes flight has reached Bangalore. The Kingfisher flight arrived late in Chennai and left late.
'Distracted' pilots fail to landAn inquiry has begun after a US plane heading from San Diego to Minneapolis missed the airport it was meant to land at by 150 miles (240km). Contact with the Northwest Airlines plane was lost for an hour as it flew at 37,000ft.
Pilot missing after F-16s collide off S.C. coastAir Force crews launched a search for an F-16 fighter pilot off the coast of South Carolina after two jets collided Thursday night.
Small plane crashes in WilsonI wonder what the NTSB will conclude after their investigation (besides pilot error...)
Stunned Passengers Watch Pilots Slug It OutTwo pilots have been grounded after they allegedly left their cockpit mid-flight to trade punches with crew members in front of stunned passengers.
Air India Flight Mid-air Scuffle: Molestation, Assault Case Against 2 Pilots"A case of molestation and assault during an alleged mid-air scuffle was on Sunday registered by the Delhi police against the two pilots of an Air India flight" regarding an incident that happened on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 according to this Times of India article.)
Cockpit chatter cited in six crashesAirline pilots regularly violate federal law by chit-chatting or joking during critical phases of flight — the kind of distractions that may have played a role in two recent fatal crashes that killed a total of 62 people, according to government records.
Dog-saving mission to no-kill zonesA group of dog lovers have a lofty goal, and volunteer pilots are helping them reach new heights. A nonprofit group called Pilots N Paws is aiming to save 5,000 animals from being put down.
Economy Pinches TV PilotsA must read article for cast and crew regarding the continuing financial climate and how it effects production.
A paw and a prayer: Pilots save shelter animalsLady Di is a lovely purebred collie with a pleasant disposition, just like lots of other dogs dumped at shelters in areas that lack anywhere near enough would-be owners. Unlike all but a lucky few of those animals, she got a plane ride away from death row.
A paw and a prayer: Pilots save shelter animalsLady Di is a lovely purebred collie with a pleasant disposition, just like lots of other dogs dumped at shelters in areas that lack anywhere near enough would-be owners. Unlike all but a lucky few of those animals, she got a plane ride away from death row.
Shocking moment jet crashes at air show, killing both pilots One moment, the fighter jet was soaring across the skies, to applause of the crowds below. Then something went wrong, and the plane plummeted to the ground just over the horizon, sending a big ball of smoke into the air.
Pilot feared easyJet flight full of holidaymakers would be shot down by military after losing radio contact The pilots of a holiday jet which suffered a potentially catastrophic electrical fault refused to divert to a nearer landing spot because they feared they would be shot down by military craft.
"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.
Video -Old man barks at bear in his home then becomes sexist-- CNN.comVideo of a former pilot who barked at a bear breaking in his house.
Tugboat pilot plan may have backfiredA federal program to recruit more tugboat pilots may have backfired by allowing thousands of novice captains to take the helm and contributing to a 25 percent increase in the number of accidents.
Patriotic women earn medals after decades of unrecognition - MiamiHerald.comRuth Shafer Fleisher knew she wanted to fly planes as soon as she ``was old enough to walk.'' Frances Rorher Sargent caught the flying bug when she was in her early 20s.
After Pilot Dies half-way through flight, Flight 61 from Belgium to Newark lands safelyContinental Airlines Flight 61 was halfway through its transoceanic flight from Belgium to Newark when a sign of trouble came: A doctor was needed.
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