Steve Scott
Articles By Steve
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NTSB Urges MD-80 Flaps Safety Check
A year after a Spanish jetliner crashed and killed 154 people because the pilots failed to properly configure the plane’s flaps before takeoff, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) […]
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Air France Ends ‘Black Box’ Hunt
The French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis (BEA) for Civil Aviation Safety has abandoned its search for the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Air France passenger jet […]
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FAA and Controllers Agree on New Contract
Air traffic controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have reached a tentative contract agreement aimed at ending years of acrimonious relations. Members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association […]
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FAA Boss Promises Action on Pilot Fatigue
Before a large gathering of commercial airline pilots, Federal Aviation Administrator J. Randolph Babbitt vowed to develop regulations aimed at reducing the threat of fatigue in the flight deck. "We […]
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Mandate to Replace Airbus Pitot Tubes
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will propose an Airworthiness Directive (AD) mandating that 200 Airbus A330/A340 aircraft currently fitted with older Thales pitot probes be fitted with at least […]
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New Faces at Safety Board
After leading the National Transportation Safety Board for four and a half years, Mark V. Rosenker has announced that he will resign his position as acting chairman and member. He […]
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Helping Pilots Get Past Ocean Storms
Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO, are working on a system that would provide pilots on transoceanic flights more precise information about violent storms […]
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Airbus: Maybe There’s a Better Way
The inability of searchers to locate the flight data and cockpit voice recorders aboard the ill-fated Air France Flight 447 has prompted Airbus, the manufacturer of the A330- 203 (F-GZCP) […]
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Time Running Out for AF Flight 447 Investigators
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is probing two recent incidents involving Airbus A330 commercial transports that appear to have suffered similar failures reported on Air France Flight 447, […]
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Regional Airline Summit Yields Action Plan
The nation’s top-level federal aviation safety regulators have taken immediate steps to monitor the regional airline industry’s pilot training and reduce the threat of fatigue on the flight deck. The […]
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