Tag: Federal Aviation Administration

A bomb disposal robot is used to inspect a small gyro helicopter on the West Lawn of the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 15, 2015. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Agencies knew about gyrocopter flight to Capitol

Tara Copp · April 29, 2015 3:46 pm

Commercial airline customers could find flight schedules severely disrupted if hackers play havoc with a new Federal Aviation Administration control system. (AP Photo)

Airliners subject to cyberattacks that could crash navigation systems

Ethan Barton · April 17, 2015 7:38 pm

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Report: Newer airplanes vulnerable to system hackings

Kelly Cohen · April 15, 2015 12:05 pm

Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, center, with Gen. David Galtier, right,holds a press conference in Marseille, southern France, Thursday March 26, 2015. Robin said the co-pilot was alone at the controls of the Germanwings flight that slammed into an Alpine mountainside and "intentionally" sent the plane into the doomed descent, killing 150 people. (AP Photo)

National Security

FAA requires door locks that figured into German crash

Sean Higgins · March 26, 2015 10:16 pm

A quadcopter drone arrives with a small delivery at Deutsche Post headquarters on December 9, 2013 in Bonn, Germany. Red tape and lack of regulation regarding drone deliveries has given European retailers an edge over U.S. companies. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Europe ahead on drone technology, feds say

Sean Higgins · March 24, 2015 10:25 pm

The Federal Aviation Administration has refused to allow Amazon to test using unmanned aerial drones to deliver packages due a dispute with the online merchant over how it should conduct its research, an administration official told a congressional panel Wednesday. (AP Photo/Amazon)

FAA gives Amazon permission to test drones

Kelly Cohen · March 20, 2015 11:44 am

Air carriers can voluntarily report inadvertent violations of hazardous material transportation regulations to the Federal Aviation Administration. However, the administration consistently fails to follow up to ensure that air carriers' subsequent corrective plans are successful, or even implemented, allowing dangerous consequences. (iStock)

Feds’ flawed oversight may allow unsafe transportation of hazardous cargo

Ethan Barton · March 19, 2015 9:15 pm

Digital gaps in air traffic control security still unfixed 15 years after 9/11

Ethan Barton · March 4, 2015 6:03 pm

Big business calls new FAA drone rules ‘flexible’

Sean Higgins · February 16, 2015 5:28 pm

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National Security

FAA would require training for drone operators

Tara Copp · February 15, 2015 8:16 pm

The drone that crashed onto the White House grounds in Washington, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/US Secret Service)

National Security

Obama calls for more drone regulations

Brian Hughes · January 27, 2015 4:29 pm

Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta said the Obama administration will soon announce proposed regulations for the commercial use of unmanned flying drones. (iStock)

CNN begins researching use of drones

Eddie Scarry · January 12, 2015 5:35 pm