NATCA DAILY PRESS CLIPPINGS
Monday, March 27, 2017
CNN HLN
Interview With Atlanta TRACON Member and Archie League Medal of Safety Award Winner Mason Braddock, and Georgia Pilot Cathy Lewan
AOPA.ORG
“We’re Here For You”
The throttle was wide open and unresponsive. Pilot Cathy Lewan needed plenty of runway—and help from the world’s busiest approach controllers—to get her Cessna 172 safely on the ground.
USA TODAY
“Ask the Captain”: Is Air Traffic Control Hard to Understand?
FLYING MAGAZINE
Broken Elevator Eyed in Detroit Overrun Accident
AVWEB
TAWS Turned Off Before Crash in Alaska in 2015
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Harrison Ford says he was concerned about turbulence from a nearby airliner when he landed on airport taxiway
More coverage – CBS News (to hear the ATC tapes)
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Pilot identified after deadly Cobb County plane crash
FORTUNE.COM
Drone Use Will Skyrocket By 2021, Government Says
AVWEB
FAA 20-Year Forecast Predicts Gradual Decline In Light GA
AIR TRANSPORT WORLD
FAA forecasts 2.4% annual passenger traffic growth through 2037
NATCA DAILY PRESS CLIPPINGS
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
POLITICO
Musical Chairs Atop NTSB
FAA SPEECHES
Administrator Michael Huerta, at NATCA Archie League Medal of Safety Awards banquet, March 22
FAA SPEECHES
Administrator Michael Huerta - Speech – "Unmanned Aircraft Systems Symposium Opening Remarks"
CBS NEWS
Survivor remembers deadliest aviation disaster in Tenerife
“Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the deadliest aviation disaster in history. It happened on the small Spanish island of Tenerife, off the coast of West Africa. Two jumbo jets, one American, collided in 1977. Jeff Glor of CBS News spoke with a survivor of the crash and looked at how the factors that caused it are still relevant today.”
THOUSAND OAKS ACORN
Planes to fill local skies for unprecedented event at Cam Airport
AOPA PRESS RELEASE
AOPA Calls For NTSB Internal Review Over Suspected Speculation In Accident Report Conclusions
THE TELEGRAPH (U.K.)
The extraordinary story behind the world's emergency landing capital
DAILY MILL
The satellite system that could avoid another MH370: Radical scheme to track aircraft wherever they are to be fully operational in 2018
FORTUNE
Air Traffic Control Is Not The Real Cause Of Airline Delays
POLITICO: MUSICAL CHAIRS ATOP NTSB
NTSB will undergo its second leadership change in a month this week, as acting Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr hangs up her title after just two weeks on the job. That tenure will have included two meetings where the independent agency determines the probable cause of helicopter and bus accidents, but nevertheless, the public health expert must step down per the terms of NTSB's authorizing law.
Beep beep, (carefully) back up the truck: The board has been one member short since January 2015, when Mark Rosekind decamped to DOT to head up NHTSA in the Obama administration. Former Chairman Christopher Hart's two-year term heading the board expired March 15, which meant the top-dog responsibilities trickled down to Dinh-Zarr, who served as vice chairman.But under NTSB's charter, Dinh-Zarr can only serve as acting chair through the end of her two-year term as the deputy, which expires Wednesday. (Board members serve five-year terms subject to Senate confirmation, while the chairman and vice chairman positions are limited to two years.)
So what now? President Donald Trump nominated current member Robert Sumwalt III last week to another term, with the intention of naming him vice chairman (the Senate must sign off on the board's chairman, but the president is free to choose whomever he wishes to take on the deputy role). Spokesmen from the White House and NTSB told MT that Sumwalt is designated to be vice chairman as of March 30, which means he'll then assume the role of acting chairman until the administration nominates someone else to that position and the Senate confirms him or her.
Tuesday trivia: NTSB has gotten this close before to being without a chairman or an acting leader, board general counsel David Tochen told MT earlier this month. In January 2003, President George W. Bush named member John Hammerschmidt vice chairman — and thus acting chairman — just as then-Vice Chairman Carol Carmody's term was expiring.
Crystal ball: MT also suspects Sumwalt's nomination could be ripe for the Senate hotline once his paperwork makes it to the Hill — he's a sitting board member who's been dispatched to high-profile accident sites like the 2015 Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia and the 2013 oil train collision and explosion in Casselton, N.D.
NATCA DAILY PRESS CLIPPINGS
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
REUTERS
U.S. air travel at record high on U.S., foreign carriers in 2016
FOX 13 TAMPA BAY
Sarasota-Bradenton International Aiport New Tower- Construction reaches new heights
CNN
U.S. drone registrations skyrocket to 770,000
USA TODAY
Everyone wants better airports, but who pays?
ALPA
ALPA Calls on Administration to Exempt Aviation Safety and Security Regulations from “Two for One” Executive Order
NATCA DAILY PRESS CLIPPINGS
Thursday, March 30, 2017
AVIATION WEEK
Final Thoughts From FAA’s Aviation Safety Chief
REUTERS
Trump to unveil $1 trillion infrastructure plan in 2017: official
COMMERCIAL UAV NEWS
First Commercial Drone Flight Conducted Beyond Visual Line of Sight in Canada
THE WASHINGTON POST
Hill Republicans trying to avert a shutdown need Democrats — and Trump
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
American Airlines’ hub in Charlotte has a new nerve center