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Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY July 16, 2024 at 8:57 AM Hundreds of passengers at the two major Chicago airports were stranded and ordered to shelter in place due to possible tornados hitting the ...
The driver of an aircraft tug was sent to the hospital in critical condition after an incident at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Saturday, according to the Chicago Police Department.
United employee, 64, critically injured after American Airlines airplane wing strikes tug vehicle at Chicago O’Hare Airport Caitlin McCormack February 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Instead, every Chicago jet flight was directed to use O'Hare, which had opened to airlines in 1955. Lighter aircraft like turboprop Lockheed L-188 Electras and Vickers Viscounts could have continued to fly out of Midway, but O'Hare's new terminal opened in 1962, allowing airlines to consolidate their flights. From July 1962 until United ...
In its most recent safety report, IATA, the trade association of the world’s airlines, called 2023 “an exceptionally safe year,” with a total of 30 accidents in the commercial aviation sector.
An Air Malta crewman performing a pre-flight inspection of an Airbus A320.. Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation.This includes preventing aviation accidents and incidents through research, educating air travel personnel, passengers and the general public, as well as the design of aircraft and aviation infrastructure.
A preliminary investigation of the incident demonstrated to FAA investigators that a "damaged database file" may have caused the outage of the FAA's Notice to Air Missions system, responsible for notifying pilots of safety hazards. [4] The FAA told CNN that there was "no evidence of a cyberattack" on its NOTAM system. [4]
The FAA has come under scrutiny after a series of potentially catastrophic near-miss aviation safety incidents, persistent air traffic control staffing shortages and a January 2023 pilot messaging ...