News tagged with 'Federal Aviation Administration'

Two airlines, US Airways and United, are facing record fines for safety violations. Both airlines assure the public they are committed to safety.

On the second day of a hearing by the National Transportation Safety Board into a February air crash that killed 49, revelations show that long commutes, low salaries, and pilot fatigue constituted a “winking and nodding” at passenger safety.

Continental Connection Bombardier Q400  pilot Capt. Marvin Renslow, had not been adequately trained in auto-pilot and de-icing systems say family members of the 49 people who were killed on Flight 3407 last February. Pilot error and procedures will be the focus of a three-day NTSB hearing.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held the first of four days of public hearings in Washington, to address the rise in medical helicopter accidents.

Two medical helicopters on their way to a hospital in Flagstaff, Arizona, collided on Sunday, killing six and seriously injury one. Sixteen people have died this year in seven crashes, involving eight helicopters, according to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials.