airline safety

The first Alaska Airlines passenger flight on a Boeing 737-9 Max airplane takes off on a flight to San Diego from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle on March 1, 2021.

FAA orders grounding of certain Boeing 737 Max 9 planes after Alaska Airlines incident

5:46am January 07, 2024

by Juliana Kim

Alaska Airlines is inspecting all of its Boeing 737 Max 9 planes. United Airlines will also ground some of its jets. Meanwhile, Southwest and American said they do not carry the affected model.

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An airline worker died on Saturday after being "ingested" into the engine of American Airlines Embraer aircraft, like the kind pictured here at the Dallas/Fort Worth International airport in Dallas in June 2021.

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An airline worker died after being 'ingested into the engine' of a plane, NTSB says

1:24pm January 03, 2023

by Emily Olson

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident with the Embraer 170 aircraft which killed an American Airlines worker on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala.

Air passengers heading to their departure gates enter TSA PreCheck at Orlando International Airport. Access to PreCheck could now be revoked for unruly passengers.

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Passengers could lose their TSA PreCheck privilege over unruly behavior on flights

4:03pm December 21, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

The Federal Aviation Administration says it will share information of passengers who are being fined for unruly behavior with the Transportation Security Administration.

The Federal Aviation Administration must fix oversight weaknesses found following the Boeing 737 Max crashes, according to a new report from the Transportation Department's inspector general.

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Watchdog Faults FAA For 'Significant Misunderstanding' Of Flight System

3:49am February 25, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

The inspector general for the Transportation Department says U.S. regulators must address oversight failures that led to two deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019.

The FAA declined to regulate seat size and pitch on airlines, saying current dimensions do not present a safety hazard.

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FAA To Passengers: Not Our Job To Regulate Seat Size, Legroom On Planes

2:48pm July 05, 2018

by Amy Held

In a letter responding to a lawsuit brought by the group Flyers Rights, the Federal Aviation Administration said that current seat size is not a safety issue.

Employees check a Sichuan Airlines Airbus A-319 on Monday after an emergency landing in Chengdu in China's northwestern Sichuan province. A cockpit window that broke midflight has been covered up; the flight's co-pilot was partially sucked out of the wind

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Chinese Jet Lands Safely After Co-Pilot Partially Sucked Out Of Windshield

1:37pm May 15, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

The co-pilot of the Sichuan Airlines flight was pulled back into the cockpit with only minor injuries. The pilot brought the Airbus down in an emergency landing, and no passengers were harmed.