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Germania Pilot Lands on Wrong Runway


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What: Germania Airbus A319-100 en route from Cochstedt to Las Palmas
Where: Las Palmas
When: Jan 14th 2012
Why: After being cleared to land on runway 21R, the pilot touched down on runway 21 L. There was no other traffic on the runway at the time.

The pilot apologized and the tower controller chided as one might expect.

The incident is under investigation.

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Intra-Agency UAS Surveillance Drone-Detecting Testing at JFK

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©NUAIR Alliance drone test April 19, 2016
The FY 2016 Appropriations law mandates that the FAA continue research into detection of UAS in airport environments.

Because the FAA has received reports about unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, or “drones”) around JFK, the FAA is developing drone detecting technology. FAA Senior Advisor on UAS Integration, Marke “Hoot” Gibson, said “This effort at JFK reflects everyone’s commitment to safety.” The FAA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Justice, Queens District Attorney’s Office and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey participated in recent tests. U.S. Government is expanding on efforts to identify and deploy countermeasures to neutralize any threat posed by rogue UASs.

At JFK, five rotorcraft and fixed wing UAS participated in system evaluations this May. Approximately 40 tests took place. The JFK tests follow up on research performed at Atlantic City International Airport. Griffiss International Airport test site in Rome, NY, provided the flight commander, and expertise in planning the individual tests.

The NUAIR Alliance was part of the largest test of NASA’s UAS traffic management (UTM) research platform on April 19, 2016. That test consisted of 22 drones flying simultaneously at six different FAA UAS test site locations around the country.

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Subverted terrorist

Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab is not the only individual who boarded a flight with unmixed chemicals (two-part concoction of the high explosive PETN and possibly a glycol-based liquid explosive,) and bad intent. On Nov 13, in Mogadishu, Somalia, African Union peacekeeping troops arrested a man carrying carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe on to a Daallo Airlines flight scheduled to go from Mogadishu to Hargeisa, to Djibouti and then to Dubai.

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