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FAA’s new air traffic system hits turbulence

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 7:34am

WASHINGTON — The government’s program to modernize the nation’s air traffic control system has run into serious problems that threaten to increase its cost and delay its completion, a government watchdog said.

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Passenger accused of trying to smash open cockpit door faces charge

Joshua Melvin, San Mateo County Times

Last updated Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 9:26am

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- A man with ties to the San Francisco Bay Area and Yemen was wrestled to the floor of a San Francisco International Airport-bound airliner Sunday night by crew members and passengers after trying to smash open the locked cockpit door with his shoulder, according to federal court documents.

Federal authorities filed a criminal charge of interference with a flight crew Monday against 28-year-old Rageh Almurisi, who was traveling with a Yemeni passport and a California ID that says he lives in Vallejo. An FBI spokeswoman said he is due in federal court Tuesday.

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FAA's air traffic manager resigns over control tower sleeping incidents

Los Angeles Times, Michael Muskal

Last updated Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 2:46pm

WASHINGTON -- The nation's top manager of airplane traffic resigned after several incidents in which air traffic controllers fell asleep at their posts, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday.

The agency, which oversees the nation's civilian aviation system, announced in a posting on its website that FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt had accepted the resignation of Hank Krakowski, head of the agency's Air Traffic Organization. In recent weeks, several incidents of air traffic controllers being asleep at the job have been reported around the nation.

"Over the last few weeks we

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FAA suspends air traffic controller who fell asleep on job

The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 3:00pm

SEATTLE -- The Federal Aviation Administration has suspended an air traffic controller at Boeing Field in Seattle for falling asleep during his morning shift Monday.

The controller was monitoring local traffic in the airport tower cab while two other controllers worked arriving and departing aircraft, the agency said in a news release issued Tuesday.

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Reported errors double in air traffic control

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 11, 2011 - 12:07pm

WASHINGTON -- In a time of unparalleled aviation safety in the United States, reports of mistakes by air traffic controllers have nearly doubled -- a seeming contradiction that puzzles safety experts.

The near collision last month of an American Airlines jet with 259 people aboard and two Air Force transport planes southeast of New York City, coupled with the rise in known errors, has raised concerns in Congress that safety may be eroding.

A US Airways plane carrying 95 people crossed paths with a small cargo plane in September, coming within 50 to 100 feet of each other while taking off from Minneapolis. A few months earlier a US Airways Airbus 319 intersected the path of another cargo plane during an aborted landing in Anchorage, Alaska.

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