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Calls for Phantom Defense Cuts Must Stop
Fiscal restraint is en vogue and increasingly the cover many are using to push other agendas. Republicans spent a week in Tampa monitoring America’s mounting national debt at their recent convention....
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Airline Introduces Perk Passengers Actually Want—And It’s Free
The vast majority of airline passengers would like to be able to use Wi-Fi when they fly. The vast majority also would like to pay little or nothing whatsoever for using Wi-Fi when they fly. It looks...
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War Lit
Our best writers on war were nobodies before they got a break. This is doubly true of veterans, from Hemingway and Joseph Heller to Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers, author of 2012′s celebrated The Yellow...
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The Army Peers Inside Its Minds…
The long-awaited Army Task Force Report on Behavioral Health, here, came out late last Friday. This was the report on the alleged mis-diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder among troops at Madigan...
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Training Blast Kills Seven Marines
Seven Marines were killed late Monday in Nevada when a 60mm mortar round apparently exploded prematurely inside its firing tube during a live-fire exercise. The accompanying photograph shows a Marine...
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FAA To Close 149 Air Traffic Towers Under Cuts
(CHICAGO) — Under orders to trim hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, the Federal Aviation Administration released a final list Friday of 149 air traffic control facilities that it will...
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FAA Funded Airport Towers Using 30-year-old Data
(WASHINGTON) — Starting this weekend, control towers at scores of small airports are to begin shutting down because of government-wide automatic spending cuts. But federal officials insist the closures...
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American Expects Flights to Return to Normal
(DALLAS) — American Airlines is promising to run a near-normal operation on Wednesday, and that would be just fine for the tens of thousands of passengers who were stranded by a mammoth technology...
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Reports: Boeing Dreamliner Could Fly Next Month
(WASHINGTON) — Published reports say Boeing’s grounded 787 jetliners could soon be flying again. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Aviation Administration is set to approve Boeing’s fix...
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FAA Furloughs Kick in, Some Flight Delays Appear
Commercial airline flights started backing up and delayed some travelers Monday, a day after air traffic controllers started going on furlough because of government spending cuts. Information from the...
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FAA: Air Traffic System Soon at Full Operation
(NEW YORK) — The Federal Aviation Administration said that the U.S. air traffic system will resume normal operations by Sunday evening after lawmakers rushed a bill through Congress allowing the agency...
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Official Probes if Rescuers Ran Over Crash Victim
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Pilots of Asiana Flight 214 were flying too slowly as they approached San Francisco airport, triggering a control board warning that the jetliner could stall, and then tried to abort...
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Investigators to Interview Asiana Airlines Pilots
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was 500 feet up and about a half-minute from San Francisco International Airport when its speed dropped below the threshold for a safe landing. It continued...
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NTSB: Flight Attendants Ejected During Crash
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Federal accident investigators say two flight attendants working in the back of the Asiana Airlines jet that crash landed in San Francisco were ejected from the back of the plane...
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FAA Increases Experience Needed for Airplane Co-Pilots
(WASHINGTON) — The amount and type of flying experience first officers — also known as co-pilots — must have to qualify to fly for an airline will be significantly increased and expanded under new...
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Asiana Passengers Called 911 Begging for Help
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Passengers who called 911 minutes after a Boeing 777 crashed at San Francisco International Airport said not enough help had arrived and they were doing their best to keep the...
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Pilot: Flash of Light Didn’t Affect Vision
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Federal officials say the pilot flying the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed in San Francisco told investigators the light he saw during his final approach did not affect his vision....
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ID Emerges of Third Girl to Die in SF Plane Crash
(SAN FRANCISCO) — The name of a girl who died of injuries suffered in the crash-landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco recently has emerged early Saturday. Chinese state media have...
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787 Jet With Possible Pump Issue Returns to Boston
(BOSTON) — A Japan Airlines flight to Tokyo’s Narita Airport returned to Boston’s Logan Airport on Thursday because of a possible fuel pump issue on the Boeing 787 aircraft. It’s the latest trouble for...
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