http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2012 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 4:56:59 EST By Calvin Biesecker Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has awarded Unisys (UIS) a potential $350 million contract over five years to expand the use of technology the company initially installed to monitor and identify vehicle traffic entering the country at... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/11767.html Wed, 3 Nov 2010 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Boeing [BA] and the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] yesterday signed an agreement whereby the regulatory agency will take possession of two of the company's ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for actual and simulated flight... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/10412.html Wed, 9 Jun 2010 0:00:00 EDT Relatives and friends of the passengers killed when Continental Connection Flight 3407 crashed outside Buffalo on Feb. 12 conducted a 10-mile memorial walk to mark the fatal accident's one-year anniversary. About 200 people gathered at a fire hall in... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/9356.html Mon, 15 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the captain of Colgan Air Flight 3407 inappropriately responded to the activation of the stick shaker, which led to an aerodynamic stall from which the airplane did not recover. The Safety... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/9357.html Mon, 8 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST Relief efforts in Haiti have been supported by the Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), providing both intelligence assets and the infrastructure required to safely operate supply-laden cargo aircraft into Port-au-Prince International... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/9237.html Mon, 1 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST The Indian Government has received a detailed report on the Sept. 2, 2009 fatal helicopter crash in the south Indian state Andhra Pradesh that killed Y.S.R. Reddy, 60, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, and four others, Reddy's principal secretary and chief... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/9180.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in cooperation with the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) and the MITRE Corp., held the premier International Runway Safety Summit December 1-3, 2009 in Washington, DC. More than 500 aviation... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/9096.html Mon, 18 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST U.S. President Barack Obama has outlined a series of new steps designed to prevent aviation terror attacks. The new measures did not immediately yield any firings or resignations among his top intelligence and homeland security aides. "I am less... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/9049.html Mon, 11 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST Despite privacy issues surrounding airport full body security scanners, more travelers appear willing to subject themselves to the devices in the wake of the Christmas Day terrorist incident involving Northwest Airlines. Six major U.S. airports are already... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8965.html Mon, 4 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST The second report on the crash of Air France Flight 447 says the circumstances of the fatal accident and its causes are still not determined. But BEA, the French accident investigation agency, believes current testing appear inadequate to evaluate how... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8938.html Mon, 21 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST The preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on the Nov. 14 crash of a helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) aircraft near Doyle, CA, sheds little light on the cause of the fatal HEMS accident---only the second for 2009... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8887.html Mon, 14 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will require scheduled airlines to either retrofit their existing fleet with ice-detection equipment or make sure the ice protection system activates at the proper time. For aircraft with an ice-detection system, the... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8797.html Mon, 7 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST The airspace over the Hudson River, where nine people died in the midair collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter, has been split into a low-altitude zone for local traffic and a higher one for longer-distance flights. The low zone is now... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8683.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST United Airlines has suspended a pilot who was arrested in London on suspicion that he was about to fly a Boeing 767 with 124 passengers while exceeding the legal limit for alcohol. The incident occurring on Nov. 9 involved United Flight 949, which was bound... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8628.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles have filed appeals of their license revocations with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The appeals were filed Nov. 4, according to an NTSB spokesman, noting that appeals are... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8547.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Oct. 27 revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles. The two wrong-way pilots were previously suspended from flying for Delta Air Lines through... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8502.html Mon, 2 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating a Northwest Airlines flight that overshot its destination by 150 miles after pilots reportedly got into a "heated discussion." According to the Safety Board, "the crew stated... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8410.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed fines totaling $9.2 million against US Airways and United Airlines for operating planes that did not comply with FAA safety directives or the airlines' own maintenance procedures. US Airways faces a $5.4... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8368.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT The number of serious runway incursions at U.S, airports was cut in half during Fiscal Year 2009, according to he Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). There were 12 serious incursions in FY 2009, which ended Sept. 30, with only two involving commercial... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8287.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the fatal crash of an emergency medical service (EMS) helicopter near Georgetown, SC on Sept. 25. The Eurocopter AS-350 B2 (N417AE) helicopter EMS (HEMS) crashed at about 11:30 p.m. ET during a... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/8212.html Mon, 5 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT