Misdemeanor Is Par for the Course

65-year-old Robert Kadera wasn’t drunk on March 1 when he landed his single-engine ski plane onto the seventh fairway at Marriott’s Lincolnshire Resort, but the judge is holding him accountable for the landing because it was deliberate; it was not an emergency landing; it was deliberate effort to keep his son from being late to a tennis lesson.

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    Feds Debark Unruly Passenger

    What: Southwest Airlines Flight 1402 en route from Phoenix to Detroit
    Where: Denver International Airport
    When: after 2 p.m Saturday
    Who: undisclosed woman
    Why: While on board, the woman “became unruly and combative” leading up to a physical confrontation. She was escorted from the plane into federal custody as it is a felony to disrupt a commercial flight

    George’s Point of View

    We already put US Marshalls on plane to keep the bad guys in their seats and so they don’t try anything. With all the recent misbehavior on planes, maybe we’re looking at the wrong profession. Do we need on board referees? A corner for time out? Nuns with rulers?

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    Temperature rising in Spanish ATC

    PRESS RELEASE-Safety bulletin 12 February 2010–IFALPA has been notified by its Spanish Member Association SEPLA that the negotiation of a new labour agreement between Spanish controllers and AENA (the ATM service provider) has taken an unexpected twist after the approval by the Spanish government of a “Urgent Royal Decree” which changes the previous agreement.

    The Federation has no position on the state of the negotiations or the tactics employed in the dispute. However, the dispute does raise some safety concerns. Consequences may include increased tension in the controller’s work place, economic worries of ATC staff, unanticipated shortage of ATCOs and unexpected delays throughout Spanish airspace.
    SEPLA recommend that aircrews exercise extreme caution when flying within the Spanish FIRs (this includes the Spanish mainland, Balearic and Canary Islands as well as delegated airspace) and to consider the following safety recommendations:

    • Increased vigilance of all ATC procedures
    • Adhere strictly to standard operating procedures, paying extra attention to communications mainly when entering congested
      airspace (TMAs for example)

    • Consider taking extra fuel for unexpected extended delays or diversions
    • Exercise special attention during all ground movements
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    Fuss over Nothing Desensitizes: Bomb cries wolf

    What: Air Mauritius A340 en route from Melbourne to Perth
    Where: Melbourne
    When: May 22, 2012, 2.55pm
    Who: 181 passengers, 13 crew
    Why: While flying north of Millicent, a soft drink can with a spelling similar to BOMB was found on a drink tray. Initially police said the can was wrapped with paper apparently scribed with the word “bomb” and taped with masking tape; but later it was revealed the mixup concerned foreign lettering directly on the can.

    Pilots returned to Melbourne and made an emergency landing. Passengers were questioned about the can, then were provided overnight accommodations in Melbourne.

    At 11.30am after the aircraft was cleared, the passengers were able to board the plane and continue their flight.

    In George’s Point of View


    My concern here is that a rash of fake bomb scares could precede an event. Paranoia vs Vigilance. Foolish or not?

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    Dana Air Returns to the Sky


    Dana Air is returning to “service” six months after killing 153 in the notorious crash on Sunday, 3 June 2012. Dana Air Flight 992 crashed into two Lagos buildings. Poor maintenance and bad aviation safety practices led that Dana Air MD-83 to a dual engine failure that killed 153 aboard, 10 on the ground and caused many other injuries (on the ground.)

    We might ask why Dana Air is returning to so-called service when it had the highest number of aviation fatalities in 2012 and the world’s highest McDonnell Douglas MD-83 death toll.

    Should they really be offering flights when they have not explained away the cause of the Dana Air Crash? Perhaps they will keep flying until their remaining five McDonnell Douglas MD-83 have crashed, people grow more sense than to choose Dana Air on flights between Lagos and Abuja or LENDERS and LEASEHOLDERS choose to write better safety controls in their contracts.

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    Training on Trial

    A federal hearing into a fatal plane crash last February in Buffalo, N.Y., is focusing on the training of the pilot. A top concern is the training the flight’s captain, Marvin Renslow, received from Colgan Air. (May 12

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