American Airlines today announced that after reviewing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) policy on raft capacity (which mentions that the rafts on the plane should accommodate for all passengers, crew and lap children), they found that the Boeing 767 fleet was not following the policy. So, temporarily all flights using the plane will be restricted [...]
Posts Tagged ‘FAA’
American Airlines limits number of passengers on its Boeing 767 fleet
Posted in Airlines, Safety, tagged 767, American Airlines, Boeing 767, FAA, Flight 1549, Raft, Restriction, Self Check on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FAA warns Boeing 737 Pilots
Posted in Pilots, Planes, tagged 737, airworthiness directive, Boeing 737, Cabin Pressure, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Helios Airways on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has “toughened a requirement that Boeing 737 pilots be reminded not to
ignore a cabin pressure warning horn, ordering pre-flight briefings as
well as changes in manuals.” The reasoning for this new “airworthiness directive” is due to the Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 crash on August 14th 2005 that resulted in 121 deaths.
The directive [...]
Snoozing pilots get their licences back!
Posted in Airlines, Pilots, Security, tagged back, Captain Scott Oltman, FAA, First Officer Dillon Shepley, Go Airline, sleep disorder, Sleeping Pilots, Snoozing Pilots on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier in the year, a Go! flight (Flight 1002 at 10 am on February 13th 2008) from Honolulu to Hilo overshot their landing target by 15 miles at 21,000 feet. The air controllers tried to contact the cockpit crew repeatedly but had no response for 17 minutes. It was found out that both the pilots [...]
More problems for Qantas
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Boeing 737, Boeing 737-400, Boeing 747-400, Cancelation, Directive, FAA, Grounding, Qantas on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Recently Qantas was in news for it’s airplanes being in problems (here and here) esp. the hole in fuselage of a Boeing 747-400.
Qantas Airways faced another embarrassment on concerns of airworthiness of its Boeing 737-400s as according to a US FAA directive “to
carry out maintenance around the planes’ pressure bulkhead because of
concerns they could crack” [...]
Deja vu: Second near miss at New York’s JFK Airport
Posted in Airports, Planes, Travel Woes, tagged Collision, Comair, Deja vu, Delta, FAA, Flight 123, Flight 1520, Ireland, JFK, New York, Shannon on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Couple of weeks back on July 5th 2008, it was Cayman Air’s Boeing 737 and LAN Chile’s Boeing 767. Last week it was like “Déjà vu” – On Friday July 11th 2008, after an aborted landing on another runway, Delta Airlines’ flight 123 (Boeing 767 flying from Shannon Ireland) crossed flight path of a Comair’s [...]
Near Collison over New York’s JFK Airport?
Posted in Airlines, Airports, tagged 737, 767, Cayman Airways, FAA, flight 533, flight 792, JFK, LAN-Chile, Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile, National Transportation Safety Board, Near Collision, New York, NTSB on July 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that it is investigating a near collision that happened over the weekend over New York’s JFK Airport between a Cayman Airways Flight 792 (Boeing 737) and a Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile (LAN-Chile) Flight 533 (Boeing 767) that came within 100 feet vertically of each other.
From NTSB website [...]
No more flight caps at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport
Posted in Airlines, Airports, Passengers, Travel Woes, tagged American, Chicago, FAA, Flight Cap, O'Hare, United on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In 2004, due to pressure from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airlines at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, nation’s second busiest airport, had to limit the number of landings from 100 to 88 per hour. FAA on Monday June 16th 2008 announced that it s going to remove the cap saying that “new runways will reduce congestion at [...]
FAA Bans Chantix
Posted in Pilots, tagged Air traffic controller, Ban, Chantix, FAA, Pfizer, smoking cessation on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
FAA has barred pilots and air traffic controllers from the taking Chantix, Pfizer’s smoking cessation drug.
From latimes –
“Aviation officials said they were not aware of any accidents involving
Chantix. The FAA generally places tight restrictions on the use of
mood-altering medications by pilots; antidepressants, for example, are
banned.”
From wsj blog -
“Up to this point, Chantix has been [...]
Boston’s Logan: F.O.D. Sensor Tested and New RWSL
Posted in Airports, tagged Boston, FAA, FOD, Logan, MIT, RWSL, Sensor on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
RWSLLogan Airport plans to install runway status lights (RWSL) to test new technology by MIT.From bizjournal -
“RWSL is an automated, all-weather safety backup system for pilots,
airport vehicle operators and air-traffic controllers intended to
prevent accidents without interfering with airport operations. The
system was developed at Lincoln Laboratory under the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Runway Incursion Reduction Program.”
F.O.D [...]
More FAA Revelation
Posted in Airlines, Travel Woes, tagged FAA, Safety on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have started questioning FAA’s objective of “Regulating civil aviation to promote safety“.
From AtwOnline -
US FAA said that more than five years have elapsed since it conducted
assessments on 103 system designs at eight airlines, exceeding the
timeframe during which the reviews were supposed to have taken place
and the latest in a string of admissions by [...]
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