WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, […]
The air traffic control at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is pictured, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, with the Capitol dome in the background, as seen from Virginia, U.S., January 30, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters WASHINGTON, D.C. […]
Airline companies must adhere to the Federal Aviation Administration’s detailed safety regulations (approximately 403 pages’ worth of them) before their planes are allowed to transport passengers. But nowhere in those guidelines is there an explicit cap on cabin temperatures during boarding outside an “improbable failure condition”—an omission that continues to result in sweaty, potentially dangerous […]
It’s been a busy year in cybersecurity, but it’s not over yet. This week, we revealed how hackers figured out how to “jailbreak” digital license plates—which are legally issued in at least a couple of states and are valid across the US—allowing them to change the license plate number to basically anything. That means someone […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has temporarily banned drones over some of New York’s “critical infrastructure sites.” “This action is purely precautionary; there are no threats to these sites,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said in a statement on Thursday. The ban will last through Jan. 18. “While we have not detected any public…
In a broadcast exclusive interview, FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker called the door-plug incident on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 last January a “failure” for Boeing. But he said the company is going through a “substantial reset” and has the resources to rebuild “in a much higher quality.” NBC News’ Lester Holt reports.
A day after SpaceX launched its Starship rocket for the sixth time, the company received good news from the Federal Aviation Administration regarding future launch operations from its Starbase facility in South Texas. In a draft version of what is known as an “Environmental Assessment,” the FAA indicated that it will grant SpaceX permission to […]
The country’s security situation has deteriorated even further since Monday when at least three planes were shot at, forcing the closure of its main airport.
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it had grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pending an investigation into why the rocket’s second stage missed its deorbit landing target zone after this weekend’s Crew-9 launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX announced it was halting launches in a social media post late Saturday, but the […]
