By Chelsea Conaboy on December 4, 2018
After decades of improvement, life expectancy has trended downward for three years, the worst reversal in a century.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Airline safety, Aviation Safety, Climate Change, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Medical Errors, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Paul Feldman on June 14, 2018
As the nation’s fleet of small recreational and commercial drones keeps soaring — the government projects nearly 3 million will be in the skies by 2022 — safety concerns are rising even as federal enforcement stalls.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Aviation Safety |
Big Companies in Legal Scrapes Turn to Science-for-Hire Giant Exponent
By Myron Levin and Paul Feldman on December 13, 2016
The Fall of Icarus is the Greek myth about a youth who gets a pair of wax-and-feather wings but soars too close to the sun–melting the wings and casting him into the sea. In the 1990s, a consulting firm called Failure Analysis Associates ran tongue-in-cheek ads aimed at corporate lawyers that retold the myth as…
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Aviation Safety, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Food Supply, Product Hazards and Recalls, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Rick Schmitt on July 13, 2016
Congress today sent to President Obama legislation to address the growing safety threat posed by thousands of drones entering the nation’s airspace. The safety measures are contained in a bill to continue the funding of the Federal Aviation Administration, whose legal authority is due to expire on Friday. The Senate today approved the legislation following…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Airline safety, Aviation Safety |
By Stuart Silverstein on April 11, 2016
Editor's note: See update at bottom of story.
For nearly five years, Darrell Whitman was a federal investigator who probed whistleblowers’ complaints about being fired or otherwise punished for exposing alleged corporate misconduct. He wanted to help whistleblowers, viewing them as a crucial line of defense against employers who violated health and safety standards or wasted taxpayer dollars. But now Whitman, 70, is…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Aviation Safety, Environmental Safety and Health, Whistleblowers, Workplace, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Rick Schmitt and Stuart Silverstein on February 10, 2016
Editor's note: Editor's note: See the update at the bottom of this story.
On a Saturday night in early December, while relaxing at his Martinez, Calif., home, Chinese exchange student Owen Ouyang decided to have some fun. He went out to the front yard and launched a sleek new drone he had recently purchased online for about $1,000. The 2.8-pound drone, advertised as “easy to fly,” proved anything…
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Airline safety, Aviation Safety |
on July 7, 2011
Airline pilots who commute hundreds of miles to work might show up too exhausted to perform their jobs safely. That concern is raised by a National Research Council report that found that one in five airline pilots lives at least 750 miles from work. As the Associated Press reports, the study’s researchers looked at the home addresses of…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Aviation Safety, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Christine Young on May 25, 2011
Children weighing 40 pounds or less should sit in approved safety seats, rather than on their parents’ laps, when flying. That’s a key recommendation in a joint statement issued this week by the Federal Aviation Administration and the American Association of Flight Attendants. The FAA will continue, however, to allow children under age two to fly for free…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Aviation Safety |
By Patrick Corcoran on May 13, 2011
Federal authorities say that the deployment of inexperienced air traffic controllers at some of the nation’s busiest airports may explain the soaring number of near-collisions in American skies last year. As the Associated Press reports, the Department of Transportation, which oversees air traffic through the Federal Aviation Administration, testified before a Senate subcommittee that the…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Aviation Safety |
By Patrick Corcoran on April 19, 2011
In the latest in a series of embarrassments involving air traffic controllers, a controller in Ohio was suspended after being caught watching a movie on a DVD player while on the job. As reported by the Associated Press, the controller, who was working at an Oberlin, Ohio, site that handles high-altitude air traffic, unknowingly piped…
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