The accident happened in an area which is not under air traffic control, a FAA official who did not want to be identified discussing the details of the accident told CNN.
"It's a good, positive step, " said Michael Goldfarb, a former FAA chief of staff who now heads a consulting business in Washington.
"We have changed accidents to be much more survivable, " a senior FAA official said.
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And I ask Congress in a bipartisan way to come back, pass a clean bill, finish the negotiations, and then get to a bigger FAA bill.
For U.S. carriers, sleeping while at the controls is a violation of FAA regulations.
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Some 750 million passengers now fly annually, a figure the FAA says should increase 3.4% annually, topping 1 billion by 2017.
She added that "the small pay increases in question average 1.6 percent" and went to "about a quarter of FAA employees" because the agency "met more than 93 percent of its performance goals" for fiscal 2012.
For more than a decade the FAA has promised to modernize and make the civil aviation system more efficient and reliable, but the only things it has reliably generated are delays or cost overruns or usually both.
Freudenberg, a former Army helicopter pilot who served in Iraq, had worked for the company just under a year, and probably wanted to avoid revealing that he had taken off with inadequate fuel, which is a violation of FAA regulations, investigators said.
Developers of private spacecraft can already obtain a license from the FAA to test their rockets, but the process for obtaining such a permit is lengthy and complicated.
In 2007, the NTSB, citing a series of fatigue-related air traffic control incidents, implored the FAA to reform its scheduling practices and implement a fatigue-management program, but the FAA took no action.
As a condition of its return, FAA officials said, the airline will operate a substantially smaller fleet of aircraft.
As a result, the FAA ordered all operators of U.S.-registered Boeing 787 to cease operations.
"I think it's an outstanding idea, " said Derek Bittman, a controller at an FAA facility in Atlanta.
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It is a sign of the FAA's institutional culture of failure that it can't even sabotage itself successfully.
The FAA took a half-step in that direction in 2008, creating a nonpunitive reporting system for air traffic controllers.
The NRDC filed a lawsuit challenging the FAA's approval of the new airport.
The FAA put a ground stop in place briefly to change the runway configuration at Logan Airport, but has lifted it.
Earlier this year, the FAA launched a limited test in Memphis, Tenn.
The FAA said a software problem was responsible for that computer crash.
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As a result, the FAA has reduced the work schedules of nearly all of its 47, 000 employees by one day every two weeks.
Last Friday, the FAA announced a comprehensive review of the 787's critical systems with the possibility of further action pending new data and information.
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Earlier this year, it petitioned the FAA for a special 80-mile corridor where it could let the drones go wild, reports Talking Points Memo.
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The FAA announced a safety review of the aircraft last week.
On Friday, the FAA arranged a second conference call, retracting without explanation the earlier call, according to Spencer Dickerson, head of the U.S. Control Tower Association.
In July, the FAA said a new air traffic control center serving the busy New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan areas would be built somewhere in New York.
"Once the bugs got worked out, and most have been, we've been very happy with this, " said Craig Troxclair, a controller at the FAA's oceanic traffic room near Oakland, Calif.
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But even those statistics may or may not include incidents in which the crew requested that local law enforcement meet the plane and take control of a passenger, an FAA spokeswoman said.
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