Delta and Japan Airlines Sued by Passengers Amid Plane Crash at Seattle

SEATTLE- A federal lawsuit has been filed in Seattle representing passengers injured when a Japan Airlines (JL) plane struck a Delta Air Lines (DL) aircraft at

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    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.”

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  • Senate Examines ATC

    Randolph Babbitt, the administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Paul Rinaldi, the head of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association presented to the senate new aviation policies and rules.

    During the hearing, Senators asked about fatigue among controllers. Several high-profile incidents in which controllers were said to be asleep or distracted while on duty include a controller who fell asleep Monday at Boeing Field/King County International Airport in Seattle and two controllers who were unresponsive at Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock, the controller who slept for five hours at McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville.

    The agency intends to a second controller at 26 airport towers and one other air-traffic center on overnight shifts so controllers don’t work overnight alone.

    Dr. Greg Belenky of Washington State University’s Sleep and Performance Research Center suggested controllers be allowed controlled twenty minute restorative naps.

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  • Best Open-World Games That Let You Fly Planes

    Though uncommon, the ability to pilot planes in open-world action games can be just as thrilling as any ground-based action.

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