Greater Focus On Details Credited, As Well As Sheer Luck
A 10-year timeline mandated by the White House commission to
reduce the rate of fatal accidents on domestic airlines --
following two such high-profile accidents in 1996 -- ended Sunday,
and safety advocates note a significant decline in such
incidents.
Nicholas Tides lost his job at Boeing last Friday... and he says
it had everything to do with a conversation he had with the Seattle
(WA) Post-Intelligencer earlier this year.
Officials are trying to determine what led an irate woman to
strangle herself to death in a holding cell at Sky Harbor
International Airport in Phoenix last week.
An incursion, is an incursion, is an incursion. The FAA
announced Monday that effective immediately, the agency will use
the definition for a runway incursion adopted by the International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- in which any unauthorized
runway encroachment, regardless of possible conflict with another
aircraft, is an incursion.
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