Steve Scott
Articles By Steve
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Many USAF F-15s Get Green Light to Fly
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 […]
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2007: It Was a Very Good Year
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 […]
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U.S. Airline Pilot Retirement Age Raised to 65
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 […]
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GAO Says Risk of Runway Collisions High
A "distressing" Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says that U.S. air travelers face "a high risk of catastrophic runway collision" because of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inattention to the problem, […]
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The Need for Safety Management Systems
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Air Transport Association (ATA) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) held its 4th Annual International Aviation Safety Forum outside Washington, DC, Nov. 28-30, […]
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Thanksgiving ‘Express Lanes’ Open
The Bush Administration has announced several new measures to reduce air travel delays over the upcoming holiday season and beyond. The announcement also included a new proposal to increase a […]
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NTSB Warns of Runway and Fatigue Risks
Six near runway collisions were narrowly averted in just the last six months, leading the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to reiterate that the issue of runway safety remains one […]
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NASA to Release Disputed Air Safety Data
In an embarrassing about-face, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has agreed to release data from a controversial $11.3 million airline safety study by the end of the year. The space agency […]
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Effort to Unclog New York’s Kennedy International Underway
It is expected to take a month or more of closed-door contentious meetings between federal, airport and airline officials to determine whether voluntary or imposed flight reductions will fix "epidemic" […]
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Safety Board Conducts its First Unmanned Aircraft Accident Investigation
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Oct. 16 entered a new era of oversight, making a "historic" ruling on the probable cause of an unmanned aircraft accident. While the […]
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