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| Monday, July 07, 2008 |
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NTSB TO INVESTIGATE INCIDENT INVOLVING MIDWEST AIRLINES PLANE CARRYING SENATOR OBAMA
By FlyingNews @ 12:33 PM :: 31 Views ::
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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in which a chartered Midwest Airlines airplane carrying Senator Barack Obama made an uneventful precautionary landing due to a suspected flight control anomaly.
At about 9:30 a.m. CDT this morning, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81 airplane (N804ME), operated by Midwest Airlines as Flight 8663, diverted to St. Louis, Missouri, during a flight from Chicago, Illinois to Charlotte, North Carolina. There were no injuries to the 48 passengers and crew.
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| Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
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NTSB ISSUES URGENT RECOMMENDATIONS TO FAA TO INSPECT ALL ECLIPSE 500 THROTTLE QUADRANTS
By FlyingNews @ 5:14 PM :: 31 Views ::
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The National Transportation Safety Board today issued two urgent recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration to address a safety issue concerning a failure that resulted in uncontrollable engine thrust in an Eclipse 500 airplane and the lack of emergency procedures developed for that failure.
The Safety Board recommended that the FAA should require immediate inspection of all Eclipse 500 airplane throttle quadrants to ensure that pushing the throttle levers against the maximum power stops will not result in an engine control failure, and that the FAA should further require that all units that fail inspection be replaced and replacement parts be similarly inspected.
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| Saturday, May 17, 2008 |
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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters Issues Recommendations to Help Avoid Future Abrupt Aircraft Groundings
By FlyingNews @ 7:40 AM :: 37 Views ::
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Citing lessons learned from reports submitted by the Federal Aviation Administration and American Airlines in response to last month’s grounding of hundreds of MD-80 aircraft, the Secretary called on the FAA and airlines to better ensure mutual understanding of what constitutes compliance with an Aviation Directive.
Secretary Peters added that the FAA and airlines need to review and improve procedures for understanding the process, timing and criteria for requesting and approving alternative solutions for safety directives, known as Alternate Means of Compliance.
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| Friday, December 21, 2007 |
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Safety Recommendations A-07-113 through -116
By FlyingNews @ 7:11 PM :: 100 Views ::
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Require operators of Boeing 777 airplanes to perform regular inspections of the primary and secondary external power receptacles and their protective cover guards to detect signs of worn or overheated pins and thermal damage and repair or replace any damage found. (A-07-113)
Require Boeing to add a new maintenance task that requires operators to perform scheduled visual inspections of the primary and secondary external power receptacles and their protective cover guards to detect signs of worn or overheated pins and thermal damage before the condition results in electrical arcing and fire. (A-07-114)
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| Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
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| Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
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NTSB Safety Recommendations A-07-52 through -54
By FlyingNews @ 11:14 AM :: 130 Views ::
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The National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration:
Require Cessna to modify the Citation 525 to incorporate an aural trim-in-motion warning and the addition of contrasting color bands on the pitch trim wheel to provide the pilot with more timely recognition of a trim runaway condition before control forces become unmanageable. (A-07-52)
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| Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
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NTSB Safety Recommendation A-07-51
By FlyingNews @ 1:46 PM :: 128 Views ::
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NTSB Safety Recommendation A-07-51
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration:
Seek authority from Congress to require the installation of Technical Standard Order C126 [406 megahertz (MHz)] emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) in all applicable aircraft at the earliest possible opportunity. Further, the Federal Aviation Administration should strongly consider establishing a compliance date for upgrading to 406-MHz ELTs on or before the date that COSPAS-SARSAT will cease satellite processing of 121.5-MHz signals. (A-07-51)
http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2007/A07_51.pdf
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| Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
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U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETERS AND CHINESE MINISTER OF CIVIL AVIATION YANG REACH NEW AGREEMENT
By FlyingNews @ 3:16 PM :: 226 Views ::
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The number of daily passenger flights between the United States and China will more than double by 2012 and air cargo companies will have greatly expanded commercial freedom by 2011 as part of a new civil aviation agreement reached today by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters and Chinese Minister of Civil Aviation Yang Yuanyuan.
“Piece by piece, we are making it easier, cheaper, and more convenient to fly people and ship goods between our two countries,” Secretary Peters said. “We both understand that the path to friendship and cooperation is paved with easy access and close connections.”
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| Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
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U.S. Airports Must Continue to Expand to Meet Continued Air Travel Demand, Study Shows
By FlyingNews @ 2:03 PM :: 234 Views ::
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U. S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters today said many of the nation’s busiest airports and metropolitan areas — such as Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, FL — will require additional capacity, which may include the building of new airports, in the next two decades if they are to address the flood of flyers headed their way.
Secretary Peters announced the findings as part of the new Future Airport Capacity Task report following a tour of new improvements at the nation’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The new report found that 14 airports and eight metropolitan areas nationwide will require new capacity to accommodate the anticipated growth in air traffic over the next 18 years.
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| Monday, May 07, 2007 |
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NTSB Sending Team To Assist In 737 Cameroon Crash
By FlyingNews @ 12:45 PM :: 254 Views ::
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Washington, DC -- The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to assist the government of Cameroon in its investigation of a crash this morning of a Boeing 737.
Earlier today, Kenya Airways flight 507, lost contact with air traffic service shortly after takeoff and crashed thereafter. There were approximately 105 passengers and nine crewmembers on board.
NTSB Chairman Mark V. Rosenker has designated senior investigator Dennis Jones as U.S. Accredited Representative. In addition to NTSB power plant and airworthiness investigators, representatives from the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing, and General Electric will join the team.
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