You would think that the FAA, the agency charged with protecting the safety of the flying public, would take special care to ensure the safety of our most vulnerable flyers, those under the age of two.
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Some travelers worried about the safety of flying 15 hours or more.
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"The safety of the flying public is our top priority and we won't allow the 787 to return to commercial service until we're confident that any proposed solution has addressed the battery failure risks, " it said.
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An aircraft pilot has said he is "seriously concerned" for the safety of low-flying aircraft if a wind farm is built near Bristol.
Lion Air is currently banned from flying to Europe due to broader safety lapses in the Indonesian airline industry that have long plagued the country.
Sky Cruise and other companies were known to violate safety and security instructions by flying out of East Luxor, instead of the recommended West Luxor, he said.
For instance, currently each plane is flying within a very large, imaginary "safety sphere", to maintain safe distances between airborne aircraft.
Organisers of the four-day Bournemouth Air Festival, which was due to begin earlier on Thursday, said all daytime flying displays would be cancelled to maintain public safety.
The EU list, cobbled together with help from all 25 member states, lists both cargo and passenger carriers from Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and Liberia as having inadequate systems for regulatory oversight on safety standards and bars them from flying to EU destinations.
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"Pete" Aldrich certified that the "technical progress of the flight testing" has satisfied safety, reliability, maneuverability, formation flying, shipboard compatibility and other issues that have, in the past, hindered the development and acquisition of this aircraft.
The Transition Roadable Aircraft, basically a flying car, recently received clearance from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to operate both on land and in the air.
The airline Jet2 has temporarily ceased flying from Belfast International Airport because of what is says are increased safety concerns during a runway maintenance programme.
Air traffic controllers lost radio communication with the Airbus A320, carrying 147 passengers and an unknown number of crew, when it was flying at 37, 000 feet, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
During this period it did not apply for a permit and when it next applied for a permit to fly in UK air space, in May 2002, it was granted, and it has since been flying regularly in British air space with the full approval of British safety officials.
Ideas were plentiful, but coming up with something that would pass safety standards so that people and seats wouldn't go flying in an accident proved difficult.
Poder Volar, a clinic in Buenos Aires, uses a Virtually Better environment called Virtual Airplane to help patients overcome fear of flying, by letting them gradually get used to the process in the safety of an office.
Any British beach flying the flag has to pass the most stringent tests on beach management and safety.
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To the amazement of safety officials, Freudenberg evidently sent several text messages with one hand while flying the helicopter with the other.
These professional aircraft management firms are in the business of scheduling, dispatching, flying and maintaining aircraft, and the good ones have systems in place to increase safety and efficiency.
"The biggest challenge is to get regulatory approval to start flying, (but) we are not going to race with anyone, only with safety, " he added.
The two orders, once fulfilled, would put the airline in the world's top 10 by number of aircraft, although Lion Air is banned from flying within both the 27-nation European Union and the US. because of fears that its safety standards are not up to scratch.
The inspector general study "allays concerns for the flying public but not for the people working the equipment, " said Milly Rodriguez, a health and safety specialist at AFGE.
Under safety regulations, tall buildings must have navigation lights on top to make them visible to low-flying aircraft, he said.
The P-51 aircraft, The Galloping Ghost, was flying the fastest it had ever flown on the Reno course since the plane had been modified in 2009, the safety board said.
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