Steve Scott
Articles By Steve
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Child Restraint Systems Not To Be Mandated
Infants and small children will continue to run the risk of being hurled from their parents arms or crushed by their parents bodies, rather than be protected in a child […]
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More Vivid Markings Being Used In Campaign Against Runway Incursions
Something as simple and basic as improved runway markings may help avoid incursions, which in their most serious form are near-collisions, or worse. At Ted Francis Green Airport in Providence, […]
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Turbulence Encounter Points to Need for Better Guidance to Flight Crews About Use of Weather Radar
All of the flight attendants wound up in the hospital as a result of the airplane’s encounter with turbulence. The cockpit crew had requested a deviation from the normal flight […]
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Landing Performance Monitor Could Prevent Runway Overruns
Incident at Toronto illustrates need It may be useful for aircraft to have a landing system that is analogous to the system used on takeoff – one that advises when […]
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Comprehensive Investigation Under Way In Toronto Overrun
Weather, Landing, Other Factors At Issue The Aug. 2 landing of Air France Flight 358, an Airbus A340 from Paris with 309 passengers and crew aboard, at Toronto Pearson International […]
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Plans to Upgrade Recorders Stir Controversy
Cost and need questioned by industry Letters from four congressman urging installation of ejectable cockpit voice and flight data recorders (CVR/FDR) represent an unusual submission to the docket regarding Federal […]
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Missile Defenses For Airliners Undergo Initial Testing
But deployment decision is problematic The time is fast approaching when the Bush administration and Congress must decide whether missile defenses for airliners are worth the money. In the next […]
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Structural Monitoring Can Pinpoint Impending Failures
A new technology from down under is vacuuming up cracks A quick head count of airworthiness directives (ADs) discloses that around one-fifth of them are directed at loss of aircraft […]
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Safety Board Calls for Action On Fuel Tank Inerting
In the 18 months since Marion Blakey, head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), announced that fuel tank inerting would be required for about 3,800 Boeing and Airbus jets, nothing […]
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Spatial Disorientation Likely in Crash On Russia’s Northern Coast
The March crash of an Antonov AN-24 near Naryan-Mar in the Nenets autonomous region along Russia’s Arctic coast shocked witnesses and initially puzzled officials by its apparent inexplicability. After a […]
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