Air Force One Flyover Reportedly Delayed More Than 200 Reagan Flights
A ceremonial flight lasting two passes produced an airport-wide consequence. Air Force One flew at low altitude over an outdoor…
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NATS Fixes Prestwick Fault After Hundreds of UK Flight Delays
National Air Traffic Services has fixed a technical fault at its Prestwick air traffic control centre after restricted airspace capacity…
FAA Investigates Alaska-FedEx Newark Close Call After Reported 300-Foot Clearance
Federal investigators are examining why an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 and a FedEx Boeing 777 converged over intersecting runways at…
Sydney Airport Safety Reports Detail Fatigue Risk as Virgin Crossed Qantas Path
A Virgin Australia jet passed in front of a Qantas aircraft at Sydney Airport while the lone tower controller had…
ENAV Data Network Failure Halves Italy’s Flight Capacity, Contributes to 192 Cancellations
A failure in the data network supporting Italy’s air traffic control services cut national flight-handling capacity to about 50% on…
Lawmakers Seek Pause of FAA’s $875 Million Washington AI Tool
An artificial-intelligence tool is already supporting flight-management decisions around Washington, but more than two dozen lawmakers say the FAA has…
NATS Traces 2,000 Flight Cancellations to Millisecond Software Defect
National Air Traffic Services has traced the September 8 flight-plan processing failure linked to more than 2,000 cancellations to a…
FAA Upgrade Plan Seeks $30 Billion After Telecom Failure Disrupted 9,500 Flights
A failure involving primary and backup communications disrupted roughly 9,500 flights around New York and Philadelphia. Days later, the administration…
Sydney Controllers Raise Safety Concerns Over 1,000-Page Airspace Training Load
Sydney air traffic controllers have raised safety concerns about a major airspace redesign after being expected to absorb roughly 1,000…
Modern Skies Act Seeks $30 Billion After Northeast Flight Disruptions
$30 billion is the new amount Congress is being asked to provide for the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control…
FAA Seeks $20 Billion After Two-Link Failure Disrupts Northeast Flights
A backup is valuable only when it remains available after the primary system fails. On Monday, September 21, the Federal…
Marine One Encounter Met Radar Standard Despite Unheard Departure Warning
The estimated spacing between Marine One and a departing Envoy Air passenger jet met the applicable Class B radar-separation standard,…
Marine One Radio Trouble Recurs After FAA Move, Forcing Helicopter Relay
Reagan National Airport controllers again failed to hear Marine One’s required three-minute departure warning from the Ellipse after the Federal…
FAA Restores Northeast Flights After Circuit Fails, Backup Fiber Is Cut
The Federal Aviation Administration restored flights across the Northeast on Monday evening after a failed primary circuit at its Philadelphia…
FAA Air Traffic Overhaul Costs $3.5 Billion More Than Approved
The Federal Aviation Administration says the first phase of its air traffic control overhaul will cost $16 billion $3.5 billion…
Marine One Close Call Highlights Three-Year Pentagon-Airport Hotline Failure
A hotline connecting the Pentagon with the air-traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport had been inoperative for…
Australia’s Safety Bureau Investigates Four Sydney Airport Conflicts With Cause Unclear
Four air traffic control incidents occurred at Sydney Airport in less than a month, but investigators have not established that…
National Air Traffic Services Outage Cancels 1,900 Flights, Disruption Persists
A failure in the United Kingdom’s air traffic control system drove more than 1,900 reported flight cancellations beginning September 8,…
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