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2 months ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Sydney Ember |Mark Walker |Kate Kelly |Niraj Chokshi |Emily Steel
The helicopter flew outside its approved flight path. The American Airlines pilots most likely did not see the helicopter close by as they made a turn toward the runway Sydney Ember, Mark Walker, Kate Kelly, Niraj Chokshi, Emily Steel Published 01.02.25, 11:30 AM A National Transportation Safety Board investigator with the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder recovered from the American Airlines jet that crashed with an army helicopter near Washington on Wednesday.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
roselawgroupreporter.com | Mark Walker
By Mark Walker | The New York TimesA former Wisconsin congressman and Fox Business host, Sean Duffy, was selected by President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday to lead the Transportation Department. In a statement announcing his choice, Mr. Trump praised Mr. Duffy as a “tremendous and well-liked public servant” with the experience needed to lead the department, which has an annual budget of more than $100 billion and a vast work force.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
staradvertiser.com | Mark Walker
Saying that American Airlines mistreated disabled air travelers who use wheelchairs, the U.S. Transportation Department today announced a $50 million fine against the carrier. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called the agency’s penalty the highest ever levied against an airline for violating protections for flyers with disabilities.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mark Walker
The transportation department fined Lufthansa $4 million on Tuesday, after finding the airline had discriminated against 128 Jewish passengers travelling from New York to Hungary in 2022 by preventing them from making a connecting flight in Germany, according to an agency announcement. The passengers were en route to an annual memorial event to honour an Orthodox rabbi in Hungary.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | David Fahrenthold |Zolan Kanno-Youngs |Christina Morales |Mark Walker
Local law enforcement officials in Butler, Pennsylvania, were given responsibility for that building, and no police officers were stationed on the roof itself David A.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Mark Walker
WASHINGTON — A recent Federal Aviation Administration audit of the production of the Boeing 737 MAX raised a peculiar question. Was it really appropriate for one of the plane-maker’s key suppliers to be using Dawn dish soap and a hotel key card as part of its manufacturing process? The answer, it turns out, may be yes. The FAA conducted the audit after a panel known as a door plug blew off a 737 MAX 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
watoday.com.au | Mark Walker |James Glanz
By Mark Walker and James Glanz March 13, 2024 — 8.39am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A day before the door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight on January 5, engineers and technicians for the airline were so concerned about the mounting evidence of a problem that they wanted the plane to come out of service the next evening and undergo maintenance, interviews and documents show.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
seattletimes.com | Mark Walker
WASHINGTON — A six-week audit by the Federal Aviation Administration of Boeing’s production of the 737 MAX jet found dozens of problems throughout the manufacturing process at the plane maker and one of its key suppliers, according to a slide presentation reviewed by The New York Times. The air-safety regulator initiated the examination after a door panel blew off a 737 MAX 9 during an Alaska Airlines flight in early January.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Mark Walker
The Federal Aviation Administration recommended late Sunday night that airlines begin visual inspections of door plugs installed on Boeing 737-900ER planes, the second Boeing model to come under scrutiny this month. The FAA said the plane has the same door plug design as the 737 Max 9, which had 171 jets from its fleet grounded after a door panel was blown off one of the jets shortly after an Alaska Airlines flight left Portland, Oregon, on January 5th, forcing an emergency landing.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
post-gazette.com | Mark Walker
WASHINGTON — After years of delays and safety and design disputes, Amtrak is one step closer to bringing new high-speed trains to the busy Northeast Corridor. Amtrak officials said late Friday that the new trains, which had failed an extended series of computer modeling tests, had passed on the 14th try and had been cleared by the Federal Railroad Administration to begin testing on the tracks that run from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
