WASHINGTON - The federal government plans to block public access to its records of aircraft and bird collisions such as the one that forced a US Airways jet to splashdown in New York's Hudson River in January.
WASHINGTON – NATCA’s top safety and technology expert, former Atlanta and Charlotte air traffic controller Dale Wright, reaffirmed for the Senate Aviation Subcommittee today the union’s full support of the NextGen air traffic control system and said, "we believe that NATCA must be an active participant." He outlined specifically why that is critically important to NextGen’s success.
March 25 - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today reiterated that the immediate priorities of a new FAA Administrator are resolving the dispute with air traffic controllers and getting to the Next Generation Air Transportation System.
President Obama is expected to nominate a former pilots union leader to head up the Federal Aviation Administration - and none too soon for lawmakers concerned about the state of relations between the agency and its air traffic controllers.
On Thursday, September 25, 2008 NATCA testified in front of the House Aviation Subcommittee on Runway Safety -- an update from NATCA's previous testimony on runway safety in February 2008.
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