Air traffic controllers are overworked and traumatized. Now with a government shutdown, it’s about to get worse for the people who are in charge of making sure air travel is safe and efficient. The government shutdown started on Wednesday and is continuing into Thursday, with the Senate out of session for Yom Kippur. Thousands at […]
Spirit Airlines Pilot Reportedly Warned to ‘Get Off the iPad’ After Veering Too Close to Air Force One
President Trump was in the air recently en route to the United Kingdom for a meeting with the nation’s leadership, and as Air Force One flew over Long Island, the craft got just a little too close to another plane, a Spirit Airlines flight on its way to Boston. The New York Times reports that […]
FAA Proposes $3.1 Million Fine Against Boeing Over Door-Plug Horror
The Federal Aviation Administration announced it’s proposing $3.1 million in fines against Boeing for safety violations in late 2023 and early 2024, according to a press release from the government agency on Friday. The safety violations include an incident on January 5, 2024, when a door plug fell out of an Alaska Airlines flight traveling […]
Inspector General Probing FAA’s Handling of D.C. Airspace After Thousands of Close Calls
Nearly eight months after a deadly collision occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., the Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General announced Friday that it would open a probe into the Federal Aviation Administration’s handling of the airspace around the international airport. The inciting incident for the investigation was the midair crash […]
FAA Allows SpaceX to Drop Starship Rocket Bits on Sacred Hawaiian Island
Elon Musk’s obsession with colonizing Mars is polluting Earth. As SpaceX seeks to ramp up its launches of Starship, it’s also expanding its splashdown area where pieces of the rocket are allowed to litter the Pacific Ocean. A recent expansion threatens marine wildlife surrounding a sacred island in native Hawaiian tradition. The Federal Aviation Administration […]
Trump Wants to Spend $2 Million Investigating Whether DEI Causes Plane Crashes
America is a corrupt place, and it’s not infrequent for that corruption to result in less-than-stellar results for the American consumer. Sometimes those poor results manifest as cheap, ineffective products. Other times, they may lead to more serious problems, like cancer-causing chemicals in your food. Sometimes corporate dysfunction has even been known to spur plane […]
Southwest Airlines Will Require Passengers to Keep Portable Chargers Out During Flights
Southwest Airlines announced it will require all portable device chargers to be kept in plain sight during all flights while they’re in use. The new policy comes after a number of lithium-ion batteries fires on flights worldwide in recent years. The new policy will start May 28 and will require all Southwest passengers to make […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife’s Flight to Avoid Newark Airport
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, despite a string of extremely frightening outages and workforce shortages recently. But Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have […]
Sean Duffy Doesn’t Want Air Traffic Controllers Retiring After 25 Years
Air traffic control staffing at U.S. airports is near a 30-year low, and billionaire oligarch Elon Musk has been doing his best to make sure it stays that way with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has an idea to fix it. Duffy thinks air traffic controllers shouldn’t retire at […]
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Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts Starship Flight 8 After Explosion Rained Debris Over the Atlantic [Updated]
Update: 6:55 p.m. ET: SpaceX had to scrub today’s launch due to an unspecified issue. The company may try again tomorrow. We’ll keep you posted. Original article follows. SpaceX is gearing up for the eighth test flight of its Starship rocket, hoping to correct course following the explosive mishap that scattered tiny bits of the […]