http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2008 Sat, 17 May 2008 15:09:16 EDT The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) held their 53rd annual Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar (CASS) April 29-May 1 in Palm Harbor, Florida. The fact that the event had a record number of attendees belies... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2624.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) as the Pentagon prefers to call them, were developed to be three-dimensional creatures, that is military machines designed to conduct "3-D" dull, dirty and dangerous missions deemed... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2561.html Mon, 5 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is taking steps to strengthen the reporting system designed to classify airspace errors, in response to an embarrassing report by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Inspector General (IG) that revealed the... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2473.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT  ... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2416.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was subjected to a fresh salvo of stinging criticism in the wake of revelations that an FAA supervisor in the Dallas field office intentionally ignored missed maintenance inspections at Southwest Airlines. The central... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2333.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT Veteran FAA inspectors told lawmakers on April 3 that their supervisors looked the other way while Southwest Airlines neglected to inspect planes as required, and continued to fly them even after discovering cracks in some of them. The... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2268.html Mon, 7 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT A number of U.S. air carriers are dealing with numerous flight cancellations caused by unscheduled jetliner inspections spawned by maintenance record checks ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration in the wake of Southwest Airlines' failure to inspect... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2175.html Mon, 31 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in the wake of maintenance lapses at Southwest Airlines, is taking the unprecedented step of ordering a spot check of Boeing 737 maintenance records at all U.S. carriers. The move means carriers with older Boeing 737... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2121.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EDT The reputations of Southwest Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as regards aircraft maintenance and government oversight of the successful air carrier, respectively, have been tarnished as accusations are publicly aired much to the... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/2047.html Mon, 17 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EDT WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seeks to fine Southwest Airlines a record $10.2 million for failing to inspect 46 of its Boeing 737 airplanes for fuselage fatigue cracking. The air carrier subsequetly found that six of the... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1975.html Mon, 10 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EDT Acting Federal Aviation Administrator Robert Sturgell used an appearance at the annual Heli-Expo helicopter industry trade show to announce that Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) services will be available in the Gulf of Mexico at the end of... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1959.html Mon, 3 Mar 2008 0:00:00 EST The Air Charter Safety Foundation's 2008 Air Charter Safety Symposium, entitled "Developing a Healthy Safety Culture" took place February 19-20 at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Training Center in Ashburn, VA, near Washington, DC... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1960.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST Witnesses testifying Feb. 13 at a House aviation subcommittee hearing on runway safety said that although the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made great strides in addressing the issue, runway incursions remain a major air safety problem. The most... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1594.html Mon, 18 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST The White House's Fiscal Year 2009 budget request for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) funds critical aviation safety programs while financing much-needed congestion relief programs for the nation's airways. "This $68 billion budget helps us... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1595.html Mon, 11 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST A coalition of the U.S. senior airline pilots are challenging the new federal law that allows veteran pilots to continue flying commercial transports until they reach 65. The Senior Pilots Coalition charges that the Fair Treatment for Experienced Pilots Act... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1596.html Mon, 4 Feb 2008 0:00:00 EST Whereas before investigators probing the Jan. 17 crash landing of British Airways Flight 88 at London Heathrow had concentrated on an electrical or computer fault as to the landing accident, those same air safety investigators have now switched their focus to... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1597.html Mon, 28 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST Boeing, which last week suffered a plunging share price as the result of further delays in its 787 Dreamliner program, will nervously await the outcome of the crash investigation involving British Airways Flight 38 at London Heathrow Airport and the probe of... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1598.html Mon, 21 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST About 60 percent of the U.S. Air Force's Boeing F-15 Eagle fighter fleet has been found fit and ready to fly again. About 260 F-15s were returned to full operational duty Jan. 8 after receiving nose-to-tail inspections following the Nov. 2 midair breakup of a... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1599.html Mon, 14 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST While air safety experts differ on just how safe last year was, they all agree that the overall trends regarding aviation safety is good. Pronouncements during 2007 and release of several studies and reports at year end regarding aviation safety all point to... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1600.html Mon, 7 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST U.S. President Bush on Dec. 13 signed a bill to raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots to 65, allowing senior pilots to fly an additional five years. The U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved the measure earlier... http://www.defensedaily.com/air_safety/1601.html Mon, 17 Dec 2007 0:00:00 EST