Mud dauber wasps pose a danger to jets at Australia’s Brisbane Airport, which is using special treatments to keep the insects away.
A hard landing on the runway puts stress on a plane. ATR is using artificial AI to help identify any damage and get planes flying again.
Congress, regulators and industry are trying to develop a long-term plan that would allow 5G cell towers to coexist with airport traffic.
Nearly 80% of the U.S. commercial fleet has been deemed safe to operate around 5G antennas, but not some of the largest freighters in the FedEx and UPS fleets.
Shippers, not just passengers, will be negatively impacted by delayed flights and rerouting to alternative airports if telecom companies eventually launch service close to airports.
Clean up on Runway 2, please! We’ve got rubber deposits.
A British Airways plane fell on its face at Heathrow Airport. One ground engineer was too short to reach the landing gear housing, and his colleague put a pin to hold up the landing gear in the wrong place. Oops.
The Federal Aviation Administration puts Transair on freeze because of safety concerns.
Blame game: The National Transportation Safety Board says an incompetent co-pilot caused an Atlas Air cargo plane to crash. Contributing factors were an inattentive captain, poor pilot vetting by the company and the FAA’s slowness developing a database for pilot records. The pilots union only points the finger at the company and the FAA.
Recipe for disaster: a pilot who made serious mistakes, panicked, had a history of reacting poorly under stress and lied about it to his employer – Atlas Air.
