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October 22, 2007

NATCA Responds To FAA's Claimed Hiring Numbers

Notes Number Of Experienced Controllers At 15-Year Low

You knew this was coming. Hot on the heels of the FAA's announcement last week the agency had exceeded its air traffic controller staffing targets for Fiscal Year 2007, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association notes it's not the number of new hires that should concern the FAA, and air travelers... but rather the dearth of experienced controllers at the helm.

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Gunshot Passenger Boards Flight In Tampa

Asks For A Band-aid, Gets A Ride To Medical Center Instead

A passenger onboard a US Airways flight, who asked a flight attendant for a band-aid to cover a gunshot wound, missed his connecting flight in Charlotte... but got a ride to the hospital instead.

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TSA Says No Use Crying Over Spilled... Tomato Juice

Incident Leads To Long Lines, Hot Tempers At LGA

Just when you start to think airport security can't get any more absurd... Tempers flared in a screening line at New York's LaGuardia Airport Saturday, when passengers were kept standing in line for hours due to an equipment malfunction.

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Flying Family Forced To Throw Away Kosher Fish Dinner

Passengers Complained Of Smell, United Airlines Offers Apology

United Airlines offered its apology to a Columbus, OH family who said they were humiliated for eating fish onboard a flight Friday.

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NASA Adopts 'Hear No Evil, See No Evil' Philosophy With Air Safety Survey

Orders Survey's Disturbing Results Purged

When it comes to the safety of air travel... what you don't know, may frighten the hell out of you. And that's why NASA is keeping mum on the results of its recent, unprecedented national survey of pilots' top safety concerns.

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Lawmaker Says BAE Tried To Mask Stinky RJ Cabins

Something Smells Here...

BAE 146 regional jets are back in the news, after a member of the British parliament suggested the defense company had a secret deal between British Aerospace Regional Aircraft, East West Airlines, and Ansett Transport Industries, according to the London Daily Mail.

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Great Falls Int'l Celebrates Cat III Certification

Montana Airport Wants To Be Alternative To SEA, ANC For Asia Trips

The Federal Aviation Administration has certified for use the first and only Category III instrument landing system in Montana at Great Falls International Airport (GTF).

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