Stale Cockpit Air Could Dull Airline Pilot Performance August 10, 2018 By Alan Levin That poorly ventilated conference room isn’t the only place with the potential for sick-air syndrome. Airliner cockpits can also have...
Study: One Overheated Laptop Battery Could Down an Airliner August 8, 2018 By Alan Levin A single personal electronic device that overheats and catches fire in checked luggage on an airliner can overpower the aircraft’s...
Inspections Reveal More Flaws in Jet Engines Linked to Southwest Fatality July 30, 2018 By Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein Flaws in jet engine fan blades like one that cracked and broke loose in April, killing a Southwest Airlines Co....
FAA Inspector Cozy With American Airlines Exec Ignored Safety Tips July 13, 2018 By Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein A federal inspector assigned to monitor American Airlines Group Inc. failed to act on safety complaints after developing a friendship...
Airlines Dodge Minimum Seat Sizes as FAA Finds No Safety Issue July 6, 2018 By Alan Levin (Bloomberg) -- Hopes for more legroom in increasingly cramped airplane cabins were dashed when U.S. regulators, responding to a court order, said...
Watchdog Probe Finds FAA Inspectors let Unsafe Charters Fly June 18, 2018 By Alan Levin Government aviation inspectors allowed unsafe aircraft to operate in U.S. commercial flight operations, a whistleblower investigation has concluded. The Federal...
Science Panel Says FAA is Overly Tough on Drones June 13, 2018 By DAVID KOENIG Science advisers to the federal government say safety regulators should do more to speed the integration of commercial drones into...
Report: NJ Transit Has Far to Go to Meet Safety Deadline May 18, 2018 By DAVID PORTER New Jersey Transit had installed a federally mandated emergency braking system on less than 10 percent of its fleet of...
Southwest Air Jet Engine That Exploded Passed Seven Prior Inspections May 7, 2018 By Alan Levin The fan blade that failed on a Southwest Airlines Co. plane last month, killing a passenger, had been inspected seven...
FAA’s Latest Engine Inspection Order Based on Fan Blade Age May 2, 2018 By Alan Levin Thousands of additional engines will have to be inspected for fan-blade cracks in an order prompted by the April 17...