JOAN LOWY

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FAA says equipment outage caused 819 flight delays

The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights.

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FAA: Computers couldn't talk to each other

Federal officials say flights were delayed across the country when a piece of communications equipment in Salt Lake City failed.

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PROMISES, PROMISES: 6 years and still no rules

Eight years after the 9/11 attacks brought a new focus on security at airplane maintenance facilities — and six years after Congress first required action — the government still hasn't tightened its vigilance.

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Administration to seek seatbelts in motorcoaches

The Obama administration said Monday it will propose long-sought safety requirements for long-distance buses, including seatbelts and stronger roof standards.

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FAA: Procedures reinforced for alerting military

Federal Aviation Administration officials said Friday they are strengthening procedures for alerting the military when air traffic controllers lose contact with planes.

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LaHood to create panel to fix airline industry

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Thursday he will create a special panel to come up with a plan to restore health to the ailing airline industry, which is losing billions of dollars, shedding jobs and blamed for using a business model that critics say undermines safety.

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Lawmakers urge Salazar to protect Utah wild lands

Eighty-nine House members sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking him to protect 9.4 million acres of red rocks lands in Utah while Congress works on legislation.

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Northwest pilots appeal license revocation

The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles are appealing their license revocations with the National Transportation Safety Board.

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FAA chief: Pilots must refocus on professionalism

The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot Minneapolis are part of a larger problem — eroding professionalism among commercial airline pilots, Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Randy Babbitt said Wednesday.

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Lawmakers seek ban on laptops in airliner cockpits

Lawmakers are moving to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits to prevent another incident like the Northwest Airlines plane that overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles.

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FAA: Military should have been told sooner

The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles have prompted the Obama administration to broaden its look at distracted driving to include distracted flying, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday.

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FAA revokes licenses of wayward Northwest pilots

The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew past their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles.

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FAA revokes licenses of wayward Northwest pilots

Federal regulators have revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew past their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles last week.

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New safety worry: Laptops, devices in the cockpit

Federal investigators declined to seize and review the laptop computers that distracted two Northwest Airlines pilots so much that they didn't notice it was time to land their plane, and instead flew 150 miles past their destination.

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Laptops, other devices in cockpit pose new concern

Two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew 150 miles past their destination because they were focused on laptop computers instead of cockpit displays may have opened a new avenue of concern for safety regulators — distracting personal electronic devices on the flight deck.

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White House situation room monitored wayward plane

There was concern at the White House about that wayward Northwest Airlines jet that flew past its scheduled destination in Minneapolis.

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High-speed rail advocates say $8B is just a start

Communities and companies seeking to build high-speed rail systems haven't yet received the $8 billion in stimulus money the Obama administration promised for the projects, and already they want more — a lot more.

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Safety board issues wake-up call on sleep disorder

Safety investigators have sent government agencies a wake-up call about sleep apnea, a disorder that's showing up in a wide range of transportation accidents.

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Congress weighs bill to stop nuke waste imports

Federal regulators told Congress on Friday that they have no power to stop Italy or any other country from dumping tons of radioactive waste in the United States.

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House passes bill to toughen pilot training rules

The House voted Wednesday to toughen regulations on pilot training, qualifications and work schedules, a response to a fatal crash in upstate New York in February and other accidents involving regional airlines.

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FAA seeks millions in fines for United, US Airways

The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday proposed levying multimillion-dollar fines against United Airlines and US Airways for safety violations, including flying a plane after mechanics stuffed shop towels into an engine.

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Amtrak ridership down, but still near record high

Amtrak said Monday its ridership dropped by more than 1 million passengers during the past year, but was still the second-highest year in the railroad's history.

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Salazar OKs some drilling on disputed Utah lands

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday that oil and gas drilling will be permitted on some of the Utah land parcels near national parks that were hurriedly readied for leasing in the waning days of the Bush administration.

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Feds: No ban on air shipments of lithium batteries

Federal regulators have turned down a request by a pilots union to ban air shipments of lithium batteries despite three new incidents in which battery shipments caught fire.

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Controllers: FAA's computers prone to problems

A new computer system key to modernization of the nation's air traffic control system has run into problems, raising doubts about whether it can be operational 15 months from now when current computers must be replaced, union officials said Wednesday.

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