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Watch: Air Canada Flight Almost Lands on Taxiway Filled With Aircraft

May 6, 2018 air canada Airbus A320

According to FAA flight data, an Air Canada flight got within 59 feet of landing on a taxiway with four other aircraft waiting on it. Newly released video shows just how View More ›

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Watch: Video You May Not Have Seen – Southwest Airlines Engine Explodes in Flight

April 18, 2018

One person was killed and seven others were injured Tuesday after a Southwest Airlines plane engine apparently exploded midair, officials said. Flight 1380, which was headed from LaGuardia Airport in View More ›

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Breaking: Watch Helicopter Crash Lands in New York City’s East River

March 11, 2018 A man looks out at the swollen East River in East River Park in Manhattan after Hurricane Irene helicopter crash

A helicopter believed to be carrying several people crashed in New York City’s East River on Sunday night and rescues were underway, according to multiple reports. @cnn @FoxNews just witnessed View More ›

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Watch: What Exactly Does an Air Force Combat Controller Do?

January 23, 2018 Senior Airman Chase Litvan, Staff Sgt. Josh Arias and Staff Sgt. Will Doherty, U.S. Air Force combat controllers from the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, Fort Bragg, N.C.

These people are amazing! Most probably don’t even know they exist but Air Force Combat Controllers are true heroes one and all. They are Special Operations forces and FAA Certified View More ›

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One Million FAA Registered Drones!

January 22, 2018 one million faa drone registrations

  The number of drones registered with the FAA topped one million earlier this month. This number includes 878,000 hobbyists, who receive one identification number for all the drones they View More ›

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President Trump Issues Executive Order to ‘promote safe operation of unmanned aircraft systems’

October 29, 2017 drone-delivery-trump-eo

Delivery drones may be filling the skies sooner than you thought! President Trump just issued an executive order to speed up the process for approval of unmanned drone delivery systems. View More ›

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FAA’s Air Traffic Control Modernization Plan “NextGen” Causing Noise Complaints

October 24, 2017 faa-noise-nexgen-flight-path-complaints-phoenix

The Federal Aviation Administration’s new air traffic control modernization plan called “NextGen” is causing a rise in aircraft noise complaints. The goal of the program is to make flying more View More ›

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President Trump Announces Major Air Traffic Control Reform & Modernization Plan

June 6, 2017 trump-signs-air-traffic-control-moderization-plan

President Trump announced he is proposing a privatization plan for the air traffic control system. In a speech today from the White House the President shared his vision to modernize View More ›

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Trump Budget Proposal Calls for Air Traffic Control to Shift to ‘non-governmental organization’

March 20, 2017 trump-airplane

President Trump is shaking things up with his first budget proposal. Included is one of the largest increases in military spending in decades plus many large cuts to other departments View More ›

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L.A. Sheriff to Start Using Drones

January 13, 2017 la-rlachman-la-sheriff-drones

It has officially begun. The use of drones in California law enforcement. Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced Thursday that his agency will begin to utilize drones in their View More ›

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