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>> the latest occurred wednesday morning at nevadas reno tahoe airport when a medical jet was attempts to land with a sick patient. its the sixth reported incident this year of a sleeping air traffic controller. the fa a is reviewing the policies and said it will add extra controllers on the midnight shift. on the housing front, the number of foreclosure notices fell 27% during the first three months of this year. about one in every 191 homes is facing foreclosure. the drop in foreclosures pai...

He stepped down this morning after meeting with the faas chief, randy babbitt. babbitt issued this statement saying, we are all responsible and accountable for safety, from senior faa leadership to the controller in the tower. the resignation comes amid growing controversy over napping air traffic controllers. the latest occurred wednesday at reno/tahoe airport when a medical jet attempting to land with a sick patient. it is the sixth reported incident this year of a sleeping traffic controller....

These are the latest incidents in the skies since republicans in congress voted on friday to cut $4 billion from the faas budget and gut several safety recommendations proposed after the deadly buffalo plane crash that happened in february of 2009. all of the 49 passengers on that flight were killed sparking a new call for stricter safety guidelines. kevin lost his girlfriend in that buffalo crash and has since become an advocate for much tougher safety guidelines. he joins us from ohio. kevin, ...

When the kids are out of school. >> wish i could bring my kid to work. >> departure jetblue 171, awesome job. >> air mex 403, contact departure adios. >> contact departure arrow mexico 403. >> the father of that child and his supervisor are both on administrative leave pending an investigation. the faa administrator said, "the lapse in judgment not only violated fa as own policies but commonsense standards for professional conduct. these kinds of distractions are. tom, how in the world did this ...

Talking about human factors errors. 90% of all crashes are associated with human factors errors according to fa as long-standing research on the subject n this particular case you are thinking about a storm, these planes literally any pie themselves. but if you interject panic or some type of catastrophic event inside the aircraft and inside the flight deck then pilots may tend to overcorrect in such a hot mode. so essentially what we are talking about 8501. we may have had a hot cox pit and a s...

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Disappearance, the fbi and justice department offered to assist the maylasian government. >> and a former fa a official believes that the plane was taken off course and diverted before the last contact. >> it was chlor, not only that the transponder was turned off. these planes are built with systems that this type of thing just does not happen. and now with the new points brought up tonight it is 100 percent clear. the pilot or co-pilot took the plane. >> my next guest disagrees. the retired pi...

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