Upon first approach, Republic Airways Flight 4514 diverts from course, circles around, and lands during a second attempt at Reagan National Airport.

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Alert! Alert! FIRST LADY in no DANGER whatsoever.
Wake up ATC. Turn off the TV. The eyes of the media are on you again.
It is the air traffic control’s responsibility to watch the distance between planes. That includes the one Michelle Obama was on. Not that she was in any danger.
Please note that the reportage below is somewhat exaggerated but these planes should be 5 miles apart. Let’s do avoid the wake turbulence, shall we?
Now, if you’re really interested, you can leave our site and go check out the CBS Recording of Michelle Obama’s plane being diverted which CBS so uncharitably does not allow to be embedded. If you listen to this recording, and you should even though you will have to sit through whatever advertising they put at the start of it, do take note of the calm, matter of fact manner of both the pilot and the air traffic controller. This was a routine situation go-round.
Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast
ADS-B is the Next Generation Air Transportation System technology is an intelligent system which equips planes with GPS, or, as the company says, is redefining the paradigm of communications and navigation and surveillance in Air Traffic Management. ADS-B accuracy is not degraded by range, atmospheric condition, or altitude. Currently the system is running in Philadelphia. UPS is equipped for ADS-B services, and is largely based in Philadelphia. ADS-B Technologies, LLC is based in Anchorage, Alaska. The FAA has floated a deadline that airlines and private aircraft install ADS-B avionics by 2020 but by 2013, it is expected to be available countrywide.
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt is quoted as saying “This new technology is a tremendous leap forward in transforming the current ATC system.”
Houston, TX, Louisville, KY, and Juneau, AK. are also being equipped with ADS-B.

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LionAir Flight Updated
On the flight prior the LionAir accident flight on the Boeing Max registered as PK-LQP, an off-duty fully-qualified Boeing 737-MAX 8 pilot was traveling home on flight JT-43. The plane encountered problems similar to the next flight that crashed it (i.e. the LionAir accident flight from Denpasar to Jakarta.) The crew aboard the earlier flight managed to land the aircraft at the destination. Based on the crew’s entry in the AFML, the engineer at Jakarta flushed the left Pitot Air Data Module (ADM) and static ADM to rectify the reported IAS and ALT disagree and cleaned the electrical connector plug of the elevator feel computer. The aircraft was subsequently released to carry out flight JT610.(A different crew manned the fatal flight.) The pilot was interviewed by the Kantor Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi–Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia (KNKT). The KNKT committee is responsible for investigating and reporting air transportation system accidents, serious incidents and safety deficiencies involving air transportation system operations in Indonesia.
The KNKT estimates that the release of the final report for Lion B38M in August or September 2019.
The KNKT is cooperating with Ethiopian Authorities but will make no official comment. News media reports suggest that on the earlier LionAir flight, a third pilot had occupied the observer’s seat in the cockpit of flight JT-43 and that this pilot identified the automatic trim runaway issue at hand and initiated that the trim cut out switches be used.
The preliminary report on the LionAir crash is located HERE.