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Michelle Obama's Plane Flew Closer to Big Jet
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama this week came even closer to a big military cargo jet than previously reported, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday. The distance between the two planes closed to 2.94 miles before air traffic controllers at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington directed the first lady's plane to abort a landing, the board said in a statement. The Federal Aviation Administration had previously said there was more than three miles between the planes, and had ordered controllers' supervisors to oversee flights carrying the first lady ...
Small Plane Crash in Kan. Kills 4 on Easter Trip
By not in system - AOL NewsTOPEKA, Kan. -- A small airplane carrying a young couple and their daughters on their way to visit friends for Easter crashed in a muddy Kansas corn field Friday, killing all four, officials said. The six-seat Beechcraft plane registered to Precision Ag & Seed Services LLC in Scott City went down about noon roughly 3 miles northeast of the capital city of Topeka. Federal Aviation Administration records show the aircraft took off from Scott City in western Kansas and was headed to Topeka's Phillip Billard Airport. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victims as Richard Dylan Spencer, 35; ...
NTSB Investigates Aborted Landing of First Lady's Plane
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into the aborted landing of a plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama earlier this week. While aborted landings are not unusual, and Mrs. Obama apparently wasn't in serious danger, the episode has become another embarrassment for the Federal Aviation Administration. FAA officials have been struggling to calm public jitters about flying raised by nine suspensions of air traffic controllers and supervisors around the country in recent weeks, including five for sleeping on the job. The first disclosed ...
Plane With First Lady Came Too Close to Cargo Jet
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Air traffic controllers directed a plane carrying first lady Michelle Obama to abort a landing at Andrews Air Force Base because it was too close to a military cargo jet, officials said Tuesday, in yet another embarrassment for the Federal Aviation Administration. While there apparently was little risk to Mrs. Obama, the episode puts the FAA back into the spotlight as officials struggle to calm public jitters about flying that have been raised by nine suspensions of air traffic controllers and supervisors around the country in recent weeks, including five for sleeping on the ...
FAA Gives Tired Air Traffic Controllers an Extra Hour to Rest
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - The government said Sunday it is giving air traffic controllers an extra hour off between shifts so they don't doze off at work, a problem that stretches back decades. But officials rejected the remedy that sleep experts say would make a real difference: on-the-job napping. "On my watch, controllers will not be paid to take naps. We're not going to allow that," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said. That's exactly the opposite of what scientists and the Federal Aviation Administration's own fatigue working group say is needed after five cases disclosed since late ...
Another Air Controller Naps; FAA Revising Work Schedules
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Another case of an air traffic controller falling asleep on duty - this time in Miami - prompted the Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday to acknowledge it has a widespread problem with fatigue and to institute changes in controllers' work schedules. "We are taking important steps today that will make a real difference in fighting air traffic controller fatigue. But we know we will need to do more. This is just the beginning," FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement. On Monday, Babbitt and Paul Rinaldi, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers ...
FAA Tries to Quell Sleeping Controller Controversy
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Publicly fuming, the FAA chief collected Thursday the resignation of the head of the U.S. air traffic system, doubled controller staffing at more than two dozen airports and ordered a sweeping review of the entire system that ensures planes fly safely, as the government sought to reassure the public that air travel is safe despite at least four instances of controllers sleeping on the job. But present and former controllers told The Associated Press that grueling work schedules and the design of the job itself - sitting in a dark room at night waiting for pilots to call - have ...
FAA Adds Staff After Controllers Caught Sleeping
By not in system - AOL NewsRENO, Nev. - Federal officials are adding a second overnight air traffic controller at more than two dozen airports around the country, reacting swiftly after a sleeping controller in Reno forced a medical flight to land unaided. The arrival at 2 a.m. Wednesday at Reno-Tahoe International Airport followed several other recent incidents of controllers dozing on their shifts. The Federal Aviation Administration said the controller was out of communication for about 16 minutes when the aircraft carrying at least three people was landing. No injuries were reported. "This is absolutely ...
Taxiing Jumbo Jet Clips Other Plane at JFK Airport
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- A wing of an Airbus A380, the world's biggest commercial passenger jet, clipped the tail of another plane while taxiing out to depart John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday night. There were no injuries when the Air France super jumbo jet touched the other plane at 8:09 p.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said. Air France Flight 7, bound for Paris, was taxiing on a runway when its left wingtip struck the tail of Comair Flight 6293, which had just landed from Boston and was taxiing to its gate at Kennedy, one of the nation's busiest airports, Peters ...
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