airtrafficcontrol
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FAA Deploys New Software to Prevent Taxiing Plane Collisions
The Federal Aviation Administration has fitted dozens of airports nationwide with new software to prevent, what it calls, “wrong-surface landings,” where inbound planes crash into aircrafts waiting on taxiways.
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FAA Says Nobody in the U.S. Can Fly Until It Fixes Its Computers [Updated]
The Federal Aviation Administration said that domestic flights in the U.S. could resume shortly before 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning. The announcement ended a period of a roughly an hour that grounded all flights across the country as the agency struggled to fix technical problems with a system that provides pilots with safety information.