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FAA Fines Boeing $6.6 Million Over Compliance and Quality-Control Lapses
The FAA fined Boeing $6.6 million over compliance and quality control lapses.
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United Buys Electric Air Taxis to Zip People to Airports
United Airlines said Wednesday it will buy up to 200 small electric aircraft to help customers in urban areas get to the airport.
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FAA Outlines New Rules for Drones and Their Operators
Federal officials are outlining new rules that will let operators fly small drones over people and at night.
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FAA Will Allow Drone Flying at Night and Over People
The Federal Aviation Administration announced new rules on Monday that will allow small drones to be flown over people and at night.
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Tesla VC Investor Tim Draper Bets Jetpack Suits and Flying Motorcycles Are the Next Frontier in Human Flight
VC investor Tim Draper has invested in start-ups developing human jetpack suits and flying motorcycles via VTOL technology enabling human propulsion.
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FAA: Pilots Can Take Pfizer Vaccine
The Federal Aviation Administration said pilots can receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and must wait 48 hours before performing any aviation duties.
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FAA Finishes Recertification of 737 Max, Clears Way to Fly Planes Again
The Federal Aviation Administration has said the 737 Max will be allowed to fly again. The plane was grounded for 20 months following two crashes that resulted in more than 300 fatalities.
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FAA Seeks $19.7 Million Penalty Against Boeing Over Sensors
Federal regulators want to fine Boeing $19.7 million for using sensors that weren’t listed as compatible with systems that pilots use to see instrument displays without looking down at the dashboard.
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Federal Report Faults Southwest Airlines and FAA on Safety
Southwest Airlines continues to fly airplanes with safety concerns while federal officials do a poor job overseeing the airline, a government watchdog said Tuesday. The airline has flown more than 150,000 flights on 88 jets it bought on the used-plane market and which had unconfirmed maintenance histories, the Transportation Department’s inspector general said in a report. That put more than…
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Boeing Doesn't Expect 737 Max to Be Cleared Until Summer
Boeing said Tuesday that it doesn’t expect federal regulators to approve its changes to the grounded 737 Max until this summer, several months longer than the company was saying just a few weeks ago. That timetable — the latest of several delays in the plane’s approval process — will create more headaches for airlines by pushing the Max’s return further…
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Panel Finds FAA Followed Procedures in Approving Boeing Max
A government advisory committee has concluded that federal regulators followed established procedures when they certified the Boeing 737 Max and did not delegate too much safety analysis for the plane to Boeing....
...In a report Thursday, the panel said the FAA correctly treated the Max as an update to older 737s and not as a new type of plane, which would...
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Boeing Now Saying Pilots Need Simulator Training for 737 Max
Boeing said Tuesday it is recommending that pilots receive training in a flight simulator before the grounded 737 Max returns to flying, a reversal of the company’s long-held position that computer-based training alone was adequate.
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Boeing Will Suspend 737 Max Production in January
Boeing is planning to suspend production of its beleaguered 737 Max planes next month, the company said Monday, a drastic step after the Federal Aviation Administration said its review of the planes would continue into next year. Boeing’s decision, made after months of a cash-draining global grounding of its best-selling aircraft, worsens one of the most severe crises in the...
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Boeing to Suspend Airbus 737 Max Production
Boeing will halt production of their 737 Max aircraft a person familiar with the matter said Monday.
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Evacuation Slide Falls From Jet Approaching Logan Airport
Authorities say no one was hurt when an evacuation slide fell from an airliner into the yard of a suburban Boston home. A company spokeswoman confirms to the Boston Herald that the uninflated slide fell from a Delta Air Lines flight from Paris inbound to Boston’s Logan International Airport at about noon Sunday.
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9 Dead, Including 2 Children, in South Dakota Plane Crash
Nine people, including two children, were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in rough weather near Chamberlain, South Dakota, authorities said. A Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop passenger plane, had as many as 12 people on board when it crashed shortly after takeoff about a mile from Chamberlain Municipal Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement. Brule County...
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Reported Airspace Violation That Locked Down White House Was False Alarm, NORAD Says
The White House was locked down and fighter jets were mobilized after an airspace violation in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning, according to law enforcement officials.
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Lessons Learned From Doomed Southwest Airlines Flight
Federal safety officials say Boeing should redesign part of the casing on some engines to prevent the kind of accident that occurred when engine debris blew out a window on a Southwest Airlines plane and killed a passenger.
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Boeing Settles Several More Lawsuits Over Max Plane Crashes
Boeing is settling more of the roughly 150 lawsuits filed by families of passengers killed in two crashes of the 737 Max jet. A Seattle law firm said Friday it settled four cases involving passengers on the Lion Air Max that crashed off the coast of Indonesia in October 2018. On Thursday, a judge approved settlements of nine other cases....
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Boeing Details Steps Needed to Get Grounded Max Jet Flying
Boeing is detailing steps it needs to complete before its grounded 737 Max can carry passengers again.