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The unthinkable has happened again. Another commercial airliner is missing in Southeast Asia. AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared Saturday evening over the Java Sea while en route from Surabaya to Singapore. There were 162 people on board at the time and, …
American Airlines Flight 280, en route from Seoul, Korea to Dallas, was diverted and made an emergency landing today in Japan following severe turbulence. The turbulence was the result of a powerful winter storm that has been intensifying over the area …
According to the FAA, there is something special in the air over DFW and Love Field. The agency announced late last week that it has rolled out one component of its Next Generation Air Transportation System (“NextGen”) in Dallas. The plan, as fully i …
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on March 8 — over eight months ago — and it seems that authorities are no closer to finding the wreckage now than they were then. Obviously the airliner needs to be found, both to provide closure to families and …
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stated on November 5 that, in the first ten months on the year, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) discovered 1855 firearms in carry on bags. When such a discovery is made, the TSA turns the firearms …
The Federal Aviation Administration routinely chooses between safety and economics and, usually, economics wins out. Not surprising, given the size and funding of the aviation industry. A recent USA Today article highlights this inherent conflict. A li …
It’s the end of an era. As of October 13, 2014, the Wright Amendment is gone and airlines flying out of Love Field are “now free to move about the country.” The Wright Amendment, enacted in 1980, prohibited flights from the Dallas airport to locations …
If your confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is dropping, this post won’t help. The second Ebola health-care provider flew from Cleveland to Dallas, just a day prior to her diagnosis, with an elevated temperature. The CDC …
North Texas Central College, located in Gainesville, suffered an unimaginable loss on Friday night when a bus carrying 15 of its women’s softball players crashed, leaving four dead. The women, who ranged in age from 18 to 20, were all from North Texas …
Southwest isn’t the only airline making emergency landings this week. Just this morning, a JetBlue Airways plane leaving Long Beach, CA on its way to Austin, TX was forced to circle back and land after climbing to just over 9000 feet. One of the engine …