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Four taken to hospital after battery catches fire during United flight

The flight returned to San Diego International Airport shortly after taking off

The Independent UK

FAA clears hydrogen-powered airplane for first flight

The dream of carbon-free flight is inching toward some reality.

Tribune News Service

Congress takes up legislation on federal aviation oversight

Congress is taking up key aviation legislation just after close calls between planes at airports in New York and Texas

The Independent UK

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Biden may call out airlines, tout infrastructure funding in address

WASHINGTON — As Congress sets its sights on aviation policies and oversight of the White House’s implementation of infrastructure and energy transition investments, President Joe Biden could echo Democrats’ demands for airline passenger protections, dig into aviation safety and lean on key infrastructure law projects as part of his State…

Tribune News Service

Cargo plane almost lands on top of departing Southwest flight at Austin Airport in near-miss

FedEx carrier and commercial aircraft were given clearance to use same runway

The Independent UK

Biden may call out airlines, tout infrastructure funding at SOTU - Roll Call

President Joe Biden could echo Democrats’ demands for airline passenger protections as part of his State of the Union address.

Roll Call

A near-collision between 2 planes in Austin prompts an FAA investigation

Just before a FedEx cargo airplane was due to land, an air traffic controller cleared the Southwest flight to depart from the same runway. The FAA and the NTSB are investigating the incident.

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US probes close call between FedEx, Southwest jets in Austin

A FedEx Corp. widebody jet flew over the top of a Southwest Airlines Co. plane early Saturday in Texas after an air-traffic controller cleared the passenger plane to take off from the same runway that the cargo aircraft was preparing to land on, aviation authorities said.

Tribune News Service

U.S. shoots downs Chinese balloon off South Carolina coast

U.S. defense and military officials said Saturday that the balloon entered the U.S. air defense zone north of the Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28 and moved largely over land across Alaska and then into Canadian airspace in the Northwest Territories on Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times

More Cracks in the FTC's Aggressive Antitrust Plans, as Court Refuses To Ban Meta From Buying V.R. Fitness App

Plus: Trump teases new avenues of authoritarianism, interest rates raised again, and more...

Reason

Southwest Is Already Paying Billions for Screwing Up Your Travel. What About the FAA?

The airline will either clean up its act or go out of business. Meanwhile, the government plods along.

Reason

Boeing delivers last 747, bids adieu to icon that ‘shrank the world’

Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday: It’s delivering its final 747 jumbo jet.

France 24

Boeing bids farewell to an icon, delivers last 747 jumbo jet

Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday: It's delivering its final 747 jumbo jet

The Independent UK

FAA adds safeguards to US flight system to prevent new outages

The U.S. government has added new protections to the aviation notice system that led to thousands of disruptions earlier this month in an attempt to prevent such failures in the future, the Federal Aviation Administration told lawmakers.

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Reuters

U.S. FAA adopts new safeguards after computer outage halted flights

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told lawmakers Monday it had made a series of changes to prevent a repeat of a key computer system outage that forced a nationwide Jan. 11 ground stop disrupting more than 11,000 flights.

The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

WEKU

Boeing pleads not guilty to fraud in criminal case over deadly 737 Max crashes

A top executive entered the plea on behalf of the company in federal court in Texas Thursday, as relatives of those killed in two crashes push to overturn deal giving Boeing immunity.

WEKU

Boeing faces a criminal charge of fraud related to deadly 737 Max crashes

The airplane manufacturer will be arraigned in federal court in Texas Thursday as relatives of those killed in two plane crashes seek to overturn an agreement that gave Boeing immunity.

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As Boeing posts more red ink, CEO cites progress, swipes at FAA

Still struggling with a wobbly supply chain and production slowdowns, Boeing lost $663 million, or $1.06 per share, in the fourth quarter despite Wall Street analysts’ expectation of a profit.

The Independent UK

Users of pilot-alert system that failed report new delays

A system that sends alerts to pilots, and broke down earlier this month, is causing delays for some users again

The Independent UK

Grounded planes, crashed cars and poisoned water: How faulty software has left society on the edge of disaster

Travel meltdowns at Southwest Airlines and the FAA have exposed how deeply we depend on outdated or unreliable computer systems. Yet as Io Dodds discovers, cancelled flights and ruined holidays are only the tip of the iceberg

Asharq Al-Awsat

Human Error Caused Outage that Snarled US Airports

The computer glitch that forced the temporary suspension last week of US domestic airline departures was caused by a contractor mistakenly deleting files, the country's aviation regulator said Thursday. Damage to a database file had already been pinpointed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a probable cause of the…

ABC News

US judge orders Boeing to face felony charge in court over 737-MAX crashes

A US judge's ruling orders Boeing to hear a charge stemming from the fatal crashes of two 737-MAX jets, threatening to unravel an agreement the company negotiated to avoid prosecution.

The Times of India

US air traffic halt caused by ‘unintentionally’ deleted files

WASHINGTON: The contractors who damaged computer files leading to the massive Jan. 11 disruptions to the US flight system did so “unintentionally,” aviation regulators said Thursday.

WEKU

FAA contractors deleted files — and inadvertently grounded thousands of flights

The agency's preliminary review determined it was unintentional as the contractors worked "to correct synchronization" between databases.

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