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FAA not checking up on airline maintenance done in outside countries.

Planes in use today are being maintained and repaired by workers who can not read the... more

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The New Economics of Cloud Computing

Gwen Morton and Ted Alford have published an excellent economic evaluation of the... more

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FAA expands American Airlines repair probe

The Federal Aviation Administration may be expanding its investigation into suspected... more

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Carpathia Unveils Government Solutions Unit

Carpathia Hosting has announced the formation of Carpathia Government Solutions, a... more

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DHS, DoD, and FAA Discuss Cybersecurity

Greg Schaffer, Assistant Secretary for CyberSecurity & Communications for the US... more

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GSA to Present Cloud Initiative at NCOIC

Casey Coleman, GSA CIO, has previously stated that cloud computing is the best way for... more

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Airplane Helicopter Midair Crash Caught On Tape

Disturbing footage may shed new light on fatal crash above Hudson River, which left... more

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Controller in midair crash acted inappropriately

The air traffic controller responsible for handling the airplane involved in... more

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Congress takes steps to improve airline safety

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Randy Babbitt, FAA Supports Pilot Mentoring

FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, in his keynote speech yesterday to the ALPA 2009 Air... more

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FAA under criticism to close controllers’ experience gap

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.

Skies over the region were cloudy, but there was little wind and no hint of rain, and visibility was good. No emergency was reported; no special VIP aircraft was coming through; no threat had been registered.

The reason for the shutdown, it turned out, was earthbound. The lone air traffic controller on duty for the area had been working two people’s jobs for more than eight hours, and he or she finally had to go to the bathroom and get something to eat, the air traffic controllers’ union claimed. It said takeoffs from Raleigh-Durham were delayed, while flights already in the air had to be redirected.

Tammy Jones, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, confirmed the shutdown but said no flights were delayed and no planes were placed in any danger. Four controllers at the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center in Leesburg, Va., the radar facility that handles flights over North Carolina and four other states, had been unable to come in, probably because of illness, and for a brief period, she said, no substitute was on hand. A second controller was quickly called in, she said.

Federal aviation records indicate — and the controllers union agrees — that staffing-related shutdowns like the one at Washington Center are extremely rare. But Patrick Forrey, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, maintained that the so-called ATC-0 incident over North Carolina was symptomatic of a larger staffing crisis at the FAA.

NATCA is locked in a contract dispute with the FAA, which imposed its own work rules and froze controllers’ salaries in 2006, so it has an interest in criticizing the agency’s management. But federal records indicate it has a good case.About a week and a half ago, the Federal Aviation Administration closed the air space... more