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Weeks after the lone overnight air- traffic controller at Washington’s Reagan National Airport admitted falling asleep in 2011 as two jetliners approached, five similar incidents emerged.
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Capt. Craig Gatch’s 11-day schedule, traversing 36 time zones, caught up with him as he touched down in Baltimore on May 6, 2009, ferrying 168 U.S. soldiers home from Iraq.
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Airline pilots would get nine hours of rest between shifts, a 13 percent rise from current schedules, under the first proposed U.S. overhaul of fatigue rules in 15 years, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.
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The Federal Aviation Administration, said to have the highest rate of internal whistle-blowers among U.S. agencies, is speeding up its investigations of complaints and making needed safety improvements, its chief said.
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A Lockheed Martin Co. air-traffic upgrade will cost $330 million more than planned and take three years longer to complete after flaws were detected during the system’s first activation in 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration’s deputy administrator said today.
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Revised U.S. pilot-fatigue rules will be toughest on regional airlines that operate about half the nation’s flights, according to a scheduling analyst.
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Nigeria’s chief aviation regulator, recommended for suspension after the nation’s deadliest accident in almost 40 years, defended his record as several safety advocates said he may become a scapegoat.
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A government safety investigation into a near mid-air collision in Mississippi is the latest to show disciplinary problems at a U.S. air-traffic facility.
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Alarms sounded in the cockpits of a Continental Airlines Inc. plane carrying 100 people and a Gulfstream II business jet, warning the pilots that they were headed for a collision more than 24,000 feet over Maryland.
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