Airline cost-cutting on fuel supplies could be creating a safety risk, some pilots claim.
{ 0 comments }
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal regulators ordered inspections for hundreds of Boeing jetliners, though none of the problems were deemed safety hazards.
{ 0 comments }
The Federal Aviation Administration named Marie Kennington-Gardiner as director of the FAA’s New York Integration Office — a new position created to eliminate the chronic delays at the area’s three major airports.
{ 0 comments }
Thomas Stuckey, criticized last week for the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of Southwest Airlines, has been reassigned.
{ 0 comments }
Two Federal Aviation Administration inspectors told CNN that Southwest Airlines tried to hide problems with its maintenance program and pressured the FAA to block an inspector who noticed the problems.
{ 0 comments }
Hundreds of older Boeing 737 jetliners will undergo inspections after numerous reports of fuel leaks caused by an potentially faulty bolt.
{ 0 comments }
Four down, 39 ready to go? Southwest Airlines said it was repairing cracks on four of the planes it had grounded earlier this week. The planes are expected to be ready to fly again this weekend.
{ 0 comments }
Southwest Airlines grounded 41 planes overnight — about 8 percent of its fleet — in the wake of its recent admission that it had missed required inspections of some planes for structural cracks, the Associated Press reports.
{ 0 comments }
Southwest Airlines, which is contesting a $10.2 million penalty from the FAA for missing safety inspections on dozens of planes, has hired an outside firm to investigate the airline’s maintenance procedures.
{ 0 comments }
Digital flight data recorders, more commonly known as “black boxes”, will be required to record the last two hours of cockpit audio and to continue to record for nine to 11 minutes once the main power is disrupted, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday.
{ 0 comments }
