Tower Shutdowns News Today

Ukraine is switching to emergency shutdowns to stabilize its power grid after Monday's Russian missile attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

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Knives from the prohibited list would not cause catastrophic damage to the aircraft. that is the key. catastrophic damage versus the threat to individuals here. this issue is not the only thing to be watching this week. also, this is a huge week for small and medium sized airports. about 200 of them are sitting nervously on a list for control tower shutdowns, thats part of those forced budget cuts also known as the sequester. they do not have enough money to staff all the airports full time now ...

Knives from the prohibited list would not cause catastrophic damage to the aircraft. that is the key. catastrophic damage versus the threat to individuals here. this issue is not the only thing to be watching this week. also, this is a huge week for small and medium sized airports. about 200 of them are sitting nervously on a list for control tower shutdowns, thats part of those forced budget cuts also known as the sequester. they do not have enough money to staff all the airports full time now ...

Worried about their personal safety. what tsa is saying is its prioritizing on large-scale things like bombs, things that can bring down an entire plane. so its a bit like the whole versus the individual. i spoke with a tsa spokeswoman. she gave us this statement. she said that the tsa looked at its threat assessment level and that their decision was driven by that threat assessment as part of their overall risk based security approach. the tsa statement went on to say that they believed that re...

Whitehouse.gov, right now, against the new knife policy this this being pushed by unions representing some 90,000 flight attendants. you can see right there it has just over 17,000 signatures. now flight attendants are worried about their personal safety and not of individual passengers but tsa says the agencys doing this is prioritize things that can bring down an entire plane, like bombs and things like that. they say hunting for small knives could get in the way of that i spoke with the tsa s...

>> yukon 35, thats approved. >> reporter: the airport is arguing in part that is location near the presidential retreat justifies keeping its control tower open. >> when we have the president or a vip that would happen to come into the airport, they definitely would use the services of the air traffic control tower. >> reporter: faa has set the bar high in deciding which towers to keep open. talking points obtained by cnn say negative impact on the national interest is the only cite tear yin the...

Criterion the faa will use. the faa is unable to consider local community impact. the control towers at 238 small to medium-sized airports on the potential chopping block. nearly every state in the country faces control tower shutdowns in one or more airports. describe to me what next month will look like. >> its unchartered territory. over the past couple of decades, the faa has closed only a handful of towers and literally overnight on april 7th youre looking at more than 170 facilities closin...