Travel Safety Update.Jan 22, 2007 US FAA creates new regulation for long-range jetliners. Airlines that fly for hours over oceans and polar regions polar regions: see Antarctica; Arctic, the. must have a plan to take care of passengers and extinguish cargo fires in an emergency situation, the FAA said Monday. The latest generation of long-range jetliners can fly to virtually any destination in the world. The Air Transport Association says the rule will give airlines flying long routes with twin-engine jets flexibility to select more efficient routes. Jan 9, 2007 US FAA extended "most requirements previously applicable only to ... two-engine airplanes to a limited number of part 121 passenger-carrying three- and four-engine airplane operations," but the rule "excludes the ETOPS ETOPS Extended Twin (Engine) Operations ETOPS Extended-Range Twin-Engine Operational Performance Standards ETOPS Extended Twin-Engine Over-water Operations ETOPS Engines Turn(ing) maintenance requirements from the operation of airplanes with more than two engines ... FAA has accepted the safety case that current engine reliabilities and the level of engine redundancy on such airplanes is sufficient to protect such operations." It estimated the cost of compliance with the new 300-page rule at $20.9 million for US airlines over a 16-year period. Jan 9, 2007 US FAA last week issued an NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) An announcement by an agency of the U.S. government that proposes a change in regulations. It is followed up by a final ruling. requiring new aircraft to feature enhanced cabin, flightdeck and cargo hold protection against explosive devices or projectiles and the identification of "least risk bomb location" onboard affected aircraft. Comments on the NPRM are due April 5. Jan 9, 2007 US FAA unveiled its long-awaited and controversial Extended Operations rule yesterday that brings two-, three- and four-engine aircraft under a common regulation for long-haul operations with limited diversion airports. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the agency, the new rule is "intended to eliminate propulsion system Noun 1. propulsion system - a system that provides a propelling or driving force system - instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a reliability as a consideration from the maximum diversion time capability of the airplane. Only the most time limiting airplane system capability [fire suppression, oxygen, etc.] will determine the maximum diversion time capability for a two-engine airplane under the new requirements." Jan 9, 2007 Adam Air, Boeing Indonesian authorities appear to be closing in on the wreckage of the Adam Air 737-400 that was lost on Jan. 1 with 102 aboard. A fisherman reportedly found a section of what has been described as a piece of the aircraft's right horizontal stabilizer in the Makassar Strait some 185 mi. off Sulawesi Island. Reports continued to surface yesterday of more wreckage--at least 11 pieces--found floating nearby. USNS USNS United States Naval Ship (civilian-manned; in service) USNS United States Navy Seals Mary Sears, an oceanographic survey ship, arrived in an area 125 mi. from where the tail wreckage was located to determine if metal detected by an Indonesian vessel on the sea floor also is from the ill-fated 737. More than 3,500 soldiers and volunteers are engaged in the search. Jan 12, 2007 Adam Air, Boeing Indonesian Airliner Wreckage Found. Pieces of an Indonesian airliner that vanished with 102 people on board have been found strewn strew tr.v. strewed, strewn or strewed, strew·ing, strews 1. To spread here and there; scatter: strewing flowers down the aisle. 2. in the ocean, officials said on Thursday, after a painstaking 10 day search from jungles to stormy seas. Jan 11, 2007 Adam Air, Boeing US Navy ship is expected to join the search today for the missing Adam Air 737-400 off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi Island, where the vessel will deploy high-tech equipment to help determine whether or not metal found on the ocean floor is from the 737's wreckage. Flight 574 disappeared from radar during a heavy rainstorm on Jan. 1 and all 102 aboard are feared dead. Jan 10, 2007 Adam Air, Boeing Indonesian officials were attempting to determine late yesterday whether metal detected on the ocean floor off the coast of Sulawesi Island could be the wreckage of the missing Adam Air 737-400 that disappeared Jan. 1 in a heavy rainstorm. More than 100 passengers and crew aboard flight 574 are feared dead. Jan 9, 2007 Air Florida Air Florida crash led to sweeping changes in aviation safety. The crash of Air Florida Flight 90 in Washington in 1982 had a dramatic effect on aviation, according to safety experts. The disaster helped change a cockpit culture dominated by captains. "This accident was pivotal because it helped draw attention to the fact that pilots need to communicate better," said Robert L. Sumwalt III, vice chairman of the NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board and a former airline pilot. Jan 12, 2007 Denver International, Frontier Airlines, Airbus US National Transportation Safety Board said it will investigate a Friday morning runway incursion incident at Denver International Airport This article is about Denver International Airport. For other uses, see KDEN (disambiguation). Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN, FAA LID: DEN), often called DIA in which a Frontier Airlines A319 was forced to execute a missed approach in order to avoid a Key Lime Air Key Lime Air is a U.S. airline based near Centennial, Colorado. It was established and started operations in 1997 and operates charter, training and aircraft rental services. Swearingen Metroliner that "inadvertently" entered the runway. The aircraft missed each other by 50 ft., NTSB said. The Airport Movement Area Safety System The Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) visually and aurally prompts tower controllers to respond to situations which potentially compromise safety. AMASS is an add-on enhancement to the host ASDE-3 radar that will provide automated alerts and warnings to potential alerted the tower at the same time that the Frontier pilots spotted the Metroliner. Jan 8, 2007 Kentucky Airport, Comair, Delta Air Lines NTSB makes public some files on Comair crash. The NTSB today will open the public docket on the crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Kentucky last August. The docket will include transcripts of the conversation between the Comair pilots and what the air traffic controller told the pilots from the airport's tower. The NTSB says the information is "factual in nature and does not provide analysis." Jan 17, 2007 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of LaGuardia Airport US airlines, represented by the Air Transport Assn., strongly objected last week to US FAA's proposed new traffic management system for New York LaGuardia that would force carriers to operate larger aircraft or risk losing slots. ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment called the plan "burdensome and costly" and "incoherent and overreaching Exploiting a situation through Fraud or Unconscionable conduct. ." FAA imposed new "temporary measures" from Jan. 1 that maintain the 75 scheduled flights per hr. limit that has governed LGA LGA abbr. large for gestational age LGA Large for gestational age, see there traffic under nonpermanent rules that were mandated by Congress to expire by the end of 2006. Jan 8, 2007 New York LaGuardia Airport US FAA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking A notice of proposed rulemaking or NPRM is issued by law when a regulatory agency of the United States Federal Government wishes to add, remove, or change a rule (or regulation) as part of the rulemaking process. Outside the USA. for LGA traffic last year that it is considering making final this year, but it would have to do so over the strenuous objections of airlines. FAA is seeking to reverse the trend of carriers operating lower-capacity regional jets to LGA, which it says leads to underutilization of the airport's terminals and other facilities and serves the needs of too few passengers. Jan 8, 2007 Ontario International Technology glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. delays flights out of California's Ontario. Fourteen flights out of Ontario International Airport in California were delayed Wednesday after new telecommunications equipment that delivers information to controllers in a San Diego facility malfunctioned. 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