Aviation Crashes and other FAA News

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Zoo_View said:
Why do private citizens think they can fly well-enough to warrant flying without a competent and experienced pilot and co-pilot?
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They’re not just private citizens. They’re neuroscientists and urogynocologists. Piloting an old twin engine plane in bad weather should be no problemo. Except the plane is kind of a dog, but only a broker or an aviation pro would know that.

What does a neuroscientist do again?

Doesn’t matter because it’s probably Trump’s fault that doctors have been killing themselves in light twin engine planes for as long as the healthcare system has been affording them the opportunity to do so.
 
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ColdBlueSteel said:
Doesn’t matter because it’s probably Trump’s fault that doctors have been killing themselves in light twin engine planes for as long as the healthcare system has been affording them the opportunity to do so.
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You’re gettin’ it.
 


“The White House on Monday ousted the vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), as President Donald Trump continues to boot Democratic appointees from independent government agencies.

A White House official confirmed the departure of Alvin Brown, a former Democratic mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, who was designated as vice chair of the five-member board in December by then President Joe Biden. He had joined the NTSB, which investigates all civil aviation accidents, in March 2024….”
 

FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control​

A panel of experts, including the former chair of the NTSB and former head of NASA, had been asked to evaluate the FAA’s oversight of traffic control operations.


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The panel had been tasked late last year by then-FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker to study ways to reduce conflicts of interest in the FAA’s oversight of air traffic control organization. The United States is unusual among modern Western countries in that the same agency that employs and manages air traffic controllers is also responsible for evaluating its own performance.

Jeff Guzzetti, a former investigator for the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board, said there have long been questions about the arrangement, and some experts have suggested a better alternative would be for an outside company or a separate office at the Transportation Department to conduct oversight.

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In February, the independent panel’s work was put on hold, according to one individual with knowledge of the effort who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Then a March 10 letter obtained by The Washington Post advised members to “stop all work immediately and to make no further commitments.”

In a statement, the agency offered no explanation. It confirmed the panel’s work was “paused,” while adding it is possible the independent panel may be asked to resume its review or be tapped to do additional work.
“The FAA has not disbanded or terminated the [safety review team],” it added.…”

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Duffy denied knowledge of this when asked about it directly on CNN this afternoon.
 
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Radar screens at Newark airport went black again overnight

Radar screens at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning. The outage happened at 3:55 a.m. and lasted about 90 seconds, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Air traffic controllers could be heard telling a FedEx plane that their screens went...
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Radar screens at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning.

The outage happened at 3:55 a.m. and lasted about 90 seconds, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Air traffic controllers could be heard telling a FedEx plane that their screens went dark and then asking the aircraft to tell their company to put pressure on to get the problem fixed.

In another transmission, a controller told an arriving private jet that the airport just had a brief radar outage and to stay at or above 3,000 feet in case the controllers couldn't get in touch during the aircraft's descent.
 
Just finished an episode of The Daily about this situation. They said the previous staffing recommendation was 63 air traffic controllers. They have since revised that number down to 42 somehow. But as of now only have 22 controllers. Each day shift needs 10. Each night shift needs 14. When the last blackout happened a couple weeks ago they only had 4 controllers working.

Some friends are flying into Newark in 2 weeks for a wedding. [Tracy Morgan gif no, no, no, nope, no, hell no]
 
Milk and Cookies said:
Just finished an episode of The Daily about this situation. They said the previous staffing recommendation was 63 air traffic controllers. They have since revised that number down to 42 somehow. But as of now only have 22 controllers. Each day shift needs 10. Each night shift needs 14. When the last blackout happened a couple weeks ago they only had 4 controllers working.

Some friends are flying into Newark in 2 weeks for a wedding. [Tracy Morgan gif no, no, no, nope, no, hell no]
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I’m supposed to fly into Newark in July with my son. Haven’t booked the tickets yet. Wondering if I should now.
 
ChileG said:
I’m supposed to fly into Newark in July with my son. Haven’t booked the tickets yet. Wondering if I should now.
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They said on the pod that the staffing problem is not something that can be solved quickly. To become a controller, you have to have experience with an airspace over another large US city (Indy for example). And then when you get to Newark you have to shadow for 1 year to learn the unique circumstances of the Newark airspace before becoming a fulltime controller.

On top of that you have these blackouts because they are routing their flight data from Newark to Long Island to Philly and the system keeps getting overloaded. In these blackouts they're losing all radars AND radio communication with flights. On final approach the planes can be 1-2 miles away from each other. If you have a 90 sec blackout with planes moving 7 miles a min (~425mph) you can easily have collisions. Huge mess.

I would avoid unless absolutely necessary.
 
Milk and Cookies said:
They said on the pod that the staffing problem is not something that can be solved quickly. To become a controller, you have to have experience with an airspace over another large US city (Indy for example). And then when you get to Newark you have to shadow for 1 year to learn the unique circumstances of the Newark airspace before becoming a fulltime controller.

On top of that you have these blackouts because they are routing their flight data from Newark to Long Island to Philly and the system keeps getting overloaded. In these blackouts they're losing all radars AND radio communication with flights. On final approach the planes can be 1-2 miles away from each other. If you have a 90 sec blackout with planes moving 7 miles a min (~425mph) you can easily have collisions. Huge mess.

I would avoid unless absolutely necessary.
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I listened to that one as well, and I couldn't help but think about all of the money it will take to fix it, as well as a lot of other issues we have. Then I thought about our debt. Then I thought about how toxic the idea of paying taxes is to most people. Damn.
 
THIRD outage.


Another air traffic control equipment outage caused the FAA to implement a ground stop for Newark Liberty International Airport bound flights Sunday morning.

The ground stop, which means flights heading to Newark could not take off, lasted about 45 minutes, according to FAA air traffic advisories.

The specific details of the outage were not immediately clear.

It comes after a 90-second-long radar and radio outage early Friday morning in the Newark approach control facility.

A similar incident, during a busy afternoon on April 28, caused five air traffic controllers in the facility to take trauma leave, which resulted in more than a thousand flights canceled.

Sunday, as of 9:45 a.m., only about 42 flights have been delayed at the airport, and about 78 canceled, according to the flight tracking site FlightAware.

CNN has reached out to the FAA for comment.
 
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