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Pilots: Cockpit dangers being ignored The pilot says his cockpit window "shattered like a spider web" during flight two years ago, and he immediately put on goggles and an oxygen mask before making an emergency landing. It's a problem, one pilot group says, the industry has virtually ignored. Home > Rss Directory > General > CNN |
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'This is your captain sleeping': Pilots who snoozed at controls allowed back to work Two commercial airline pilots who fell asleep in the cockpit and overshot their landing by 15 miles have been cleared to return to work. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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US airline pilot pops a cap in cockpit 'Accidental discharge' of terror-busting pistol A US airline pilot has the dubious honour of being the first person to fire a weapon issued under a federal programme designed to thwart 9/11-style hijackings after his piece accidentally went off in the cockpit during an internal flight on Saturday Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Adverts warn of cocaine dangers A hard-hitting Ł1m television and internet advertising campaign to warn teenagers of the dangers of cocaine use is being launched. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Hundreds of US fighter aces reassigned as drone pilots Rise of the machines The recent surge in use of remotely-controlled robot aircraft by US forces for the Wars on Stuff has meant that substantial numbers of American pilots are now being pulled off normal flight status and assigned to drone-driving duty, according to reports.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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NASA Gets Inside Pilots' Heads to Make Them Safer NASA is testing whether neural imaging technology can tell pilots when they're being mentally overloaded, which could lead to improvements in flight control systems. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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NASA Gets Inside Pilots' Heads to Make Them Safer NASA is testing whether neural imaging technology can tell pilots when they're being mentally overloaded, which could lead to improvements in flight control systems. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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United Accuses Pilots of Causing Delays - New York Times Aviation WeekUnited Accuses Pilots of Causing DelaysNew York Times - 2 hours agoBy MICHELINE MAYNARD United Airlines filed suit in federal court against its pilots’ union on Wednesday, asking it to stop pilots from engaging in slowdowns it said had led to the cancella Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Pilots Rescued After Fighter Jets Crash - The Associated Press WKRG-TVPilots Rescued After Fighter Jets CrashThe Associated Press - 58 minutes agoEGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) - Two fighter jets likely collided and crashed during a training exercise over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, but the pilots ejected and were rescued, t Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Frequent Flier: A Cramped Seat, but With the Best View: the Cockpit On an overbooked flight, you might get asked to sit in the cockpit. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |
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Joel Osteen's wife eyed cockpit after attack, flight attendant says
(AP) AP - A flight attendant suing the wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen over a preflight confrontation testified Tuesday that she felt compelled to keep an irate Victoria Osteen away from the cockpit door. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Cockpit recorder recovered in fatal SC jet crash
(AP) AP - Investigators say they've recovered the cockpit voice recorder from a fiery South Carolina jet crash that killed four and critically injured former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Divers recover Airbus cockpit box French divers find the cockpit voice recorder from the Air New Zealand plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, killing seven. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC |
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Divers recover Airbus cockpit box French divers find the cockpit voice recorder from the Air New Zealand plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, killing seven. Home > Rss Directory > General > BBC World |
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Facebook privacy chief: Data portability dangers overlooked The launch of Facebook's Beacon advertising system in November put the social networking site in the middle of a controversy over privacy, as Beacon was criticized for being too aggressive and stealthy in collecting and broadcasting information about users' activitie Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Chinese officials ignored quake warnings - Times Online Canada.comChinese officials ignored quake warningsTimes Online - 2 hours agoChinese officials ignored warnings from five eminent seismologists that a strong earthquake would strike the mountainous province of Sichuan this year, including one forecast that almost exactly Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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The dangers of cloud computing The idea of cloud computing -- designed around an architecture whose natural state is a shared pool outside the enterprise -- has gained momentum in recent months as a way to reduce cost and improve IT flexibility. But the use of cloud computing also carries with it s Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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NASA Downplays Pilots' Complaints About Fatigue, Security - Washington Post OverTheLimit.infoNASA Downplays Pilots' Complaints About Fatigue, SecurityWashington Post - 11 hours agoBy Del Quentin Wilber NASA yesterday released partial results of a massive air-safety survey of airline pilots who repeatedly complained about fatigue, problems with Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Northwest-Delta deal holds for pilots' clearance - USA Today EarthtimesNorthwest-Delta deal holds for pilots' clearanceUSA Today - 36 minutes agoBy Marilyn Adams, USA TODAY The boards of Delta Air Lines (DAL) and Northwest Airlines (NWA) are scheduled to meet Wednesday to consider a merger that would create the world's largest p Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Delta Pilots Don’t Want Arbitration on Seniority The pilots’ union at Delta has rejected the idea of arbitration with the pilots at the Northwest to break their impasse over integrating seniority lists as part of a possible merger. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |