Subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federal aviation administration. Joinedry pleased to be by senator jack reed, the subcommittee Ranking Member, and im is sure we will be joined by others. The faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and 6 6. Thiopian air flight 302 syrias questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory serious questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory framework. For the victims and their families, we need to make sure these accidents are thoroughly investigated, th
Happened here. This may have been an altercation. Maybe something else. We dont know. We are still looking for answers. When we find new information we will come back and let you know. Reporting live, richard reeve, abc7 news. Larry thank you. Sign up for breaking news text alerts at the website wjla. Com. Michelle all right. 7 on storm watch. Just when you might have thought things were about to get a bit warmer around here, another taste of winter is on the way. Stormwatch7s chief meteorologist doug hill is here with the details. Doug it will get warmer. Starting overnight. Between now and then the potential problems there. In advance of the possibility of the freezing rain, the National Weather service issued freezing rain advisory north and west of the area. Western montgomery, fauquier and the area to the valley and the mountains as well. The temperatures above freezing at freezing to the motor and west. And again, thankfully the temperatures will slowly rise later tonight. But ma
Winds gusting nearly 30 Miles Per Hour and 40 this afternoon, and riding in on the wind is cold air. Temperatures have been plummeting overnight. Right now thintiv philadelphia, are in the 30s, just above freezing. South philadelphia also at 30 degrees, at 5th and warden. The winds, gusts at 32 Miles Per Hour in wildwood. 26 Miles Per Hour winds gusting in philadelphia topping out here 35 Miles Per Hour, possibly a little stronger at times during the day. The wind is blowing a few clouds through the area, and there were some snow flakes that tried to fall out of the clouds, but thats all fizzled and no sign of any on the horizon. Plenty of cold. Today youll feel it. 33 degrees at 8 00, and 39 degrees at noontime, and in the low 40s this afternoon. Well have to deal with the wind chill through the day. Todays stores are preparing to welcome the procrastinatorpr. It is the last weekend before christmas meaning a crush of shoppers met by a flurry of final sales. Nbc 10 Monique Braxton is
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WASHINGTON After organizing controllers into work crews earlier in 2020 to protect against COVID-19 infections, the FAA is allowing more staffing flexibility at its air traffic control (ATC) facilities.
FAA Air Traffic Organization COO Teri Bristol said Dec. 9 that recovering air traffic levels and a better understanding of how the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads have prompted the agency to “pull back” on the controller teaming concept it introduced this spring at the start of the pandemic.
“We started to go to [controller] teams initially so that we could not only preserve personal protective equipment, but also protect people,” Bristol said during the virtual annual meeting of the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA). “Traffic is coming back, so we’ve had to ensure that we can staff facilities.”