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FAA International Runway Safety Summit Meeting Now
In her opening address to the FAA International Runway Safety Summit in Washington, US National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman criticized FAA for failing to act on runway safety recommendations made by the NTSB. Among other questions she asked, “How do safety improvements end up taking 10 years to deliver?…Every day they are delayed could be the day” an accident occurs.
The FAA International Runway Safety Summit is being held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC. Co-sponsored by the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) and The MITRE Corporation, will continue on until December 3rd.
Ongoing discussions, analyses, and reviews of critical issues such as human factors, airport geometry, technology today and tomorrow, the cockpit, ATC procedures, and SMS systems are the expected topics.
Special keynote talks by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood (invited), FAA Administrator J. Randolph Babbitt, and FAA Air Traffic Organization Chief Operating Officer Hank Krakowski will emphasize the importance placed on runway safety in the United States and its aviation partners worldwide. Wednesday’s luncheon presentation will feature Captain Robert Bragg, the sole surviving flight crew member of the Pan Am Tenerife crash.
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.

Pilot identified of plane that landed on Thruway
New York State Police have identified the pilot of a small twin-engine plane that landed on the Thruway on Friday.
FAA Sets Crew’s Alert Parameters
Alerts should be designed so that the pilot can acknowledge the problem and suppress the alarm. According to the FAA, the system should automatically remove the alert when the conditions no longer exist, preventing a “nuisance.”
The FAA recommends manufactures use six or fewer colors.
Alert colours on the flight deck for future aircraft will have red warnings, amber or yellow cautions and any colour but red, amber, yellow or green for advisory alerts. Attention cues can not rely solely on color but must alert two senses.
Weather, terrain or traffic displays may still use the four colours, but “must not adversely affect flightcrew alerting.”

Bodies In Landing Gear. Stowaways. Open Doors. What’s Up With Aviation Security?
What is going on with aviation security? People have been found dead hiding in the wheel wells of planes twice in the past month. Two stowaways were