Steve Scott
Articles By Steve
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FAA Shuts Down Air Ambulance Operation
An air ambulance service based at the Charlotte County (FL) Airport has been shut down by federal officials for alleged air safety violations. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on May […]
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FAA Gears Up to Limit Summer Delays
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has implemented new programs aimed at reducing air travel delays during the peak summer travel season. It is hoped that the projects and flight limitations […]
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IATA’s Air Safety Scorecard
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its 44th annual Safety Report showing that the 2007 global accident rate of 0.75 hull losses for every million flights by Western-built […]
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Rules for the Air Safety Road
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 […]
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Safety Board Probes a Manned/Unmanned NAS
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" […]
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Dallas Cover Up Revealed
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 […]
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FAA Air Carrier Audits Criticized at Senate Hearing
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 […]
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Public Airing of Southwest Maintenance Lapses
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 […]
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Maintenance Checks Disrupt U.S. Airline Operations
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 […]
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