Air Travel During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Images from a nearly empty San Diego airport on Friday afternoon April 3rd 2020. Closed restaurants, empty chairs. Only a newsstand was open. Nearly deserted food court. Thankfully Qdoba was open.
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Unmanned Aircraft in the National Airspace System
From the Wild West to the National Airspace System: Roadmap for Integration of Unmanned Aircraft into the National Airspace System By David Cain, J.D.1 I. History of Aviation – Unde Vinimus A. Unmanned Aviation i. Early Unmanned Efforts: From Tethered Flight to World War I ii. The Golden Age: Unmanned Flight from World War I…
How the FAA is Getting it Right on Unmanned Aircraft
by David A. Cain, Esq. Reprinted with permission of the author. Originally appeared in Times of San Diego on February 19, 2015. What place do Unmanned Aerial Systems (“UAS”, commonly—if imprecisely—referred to as “drones”) have a place in our American skies? If you own or operate a small UAS, do you know where you can…
49 CFR 821.33 Stale Complaint Rule
In Administrator v. Armstrong, the NTSB relied upon its 2003 holding in Ramaprakash, restating Rule 33 which requires the FAA to provide notice of a proposed certificate action to the respondend within six months of an alleged incident or violation. The full text of the NTSB’s 2012 opinion follows. NTSB Order No. EA-5629 UNITED…
Will NTSB Release CVR Tapes?
Will the NTSB Release Cockpit Voice Recordings? by Dave Alden July 8, 2013 – Legal.com Following the crash of Asiana flight 214 while landing on runway 28L at San Francisco (KSFO) on July 6, 2013, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) conducted a series of briefings. Responding to questions from reporters about the availability of…
Pilot’s Bill of Rights
by Dave Alden (Legal.com – August 8, 2012) President Obama signed into law the Pilot’s Bill of Rights which modifies the procedural steps that must be followed by the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) when conducting a legal enforcement (certificate) action against an individual who is the subject of an investigation relating to the approval, denial,…
What Happened to Air France 447?
June 14, 2009 Legal.com Updated: June 18, 20, 29, July 7; August 16 and 31, 2009 by Dave Alden On June 1, 2009, an Airbus A330-200 registration F-GZCP, similiar to the aircraft depicted, being operated by Air France, disappeared approximately four hours into a flight between Rio de Janeiro and Paris. Source for the two…
Air France 447 Recorder Found
May 2, 2011. Updated June 4, 2011. The French Bureau of Investigations and Analysis (BEA) announced the recovery of the flight data recorder (FDR) and data/memory component from Air France flight 447, lost with all aboard on June 1, 2009 over the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 600 miles northeast of Brazil. Data successfully recovered from the…
737 Fuselage tears, Flight 812 Diverts to Yuma
Legal.com – Dave Alden – April 3, 2011. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a rupture of the aircraft skin at the top of the cabin of this Boeing 737 being operated on April 1, 2011 as Southwest Airlines flight 812, during a scheduled flight from Phoenix, AZ (PHX) to Sacramento, CA (SMF). The…