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		<title><![CDATA[FAA Expands Polished-Frost Takeoff Ban]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Swickard The FAA announced yesterday that a new rule will extend its prohibition on aircraft takeoffs with "polished frost" -- frost buffed to make it smooth -- on the wings, stabilizers and control surfaces to include FAR Part 91 subpart F, Part 25 and Part 135 operations, effective Jan.30,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:29:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FAA Bans All Polished-Frost Takeoffs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting Jan. 30, 2010, all aircraft contaminated with "polished" smooth frost on wings, as well as on stabilizing and control surfaces will be prohibited from takeoff, according to the FAA final rule published today. Majors and regionals are already prohibited from operating aircraft contaminated with polished frost. FAA's final rule...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:25:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FAA Turned Down Boeing 777 Warnings: Report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=Reuters">Reuters</a>) - The U.S. aviation regulator decided to allow over 130 Boeing Co BA 777 airplanes to continue flying international trips through early 2011, despite warnings about suspect parts that have caused rare shutdowns in midair, the Wall Street Journal reported.In July, the Federal Aviation Administration had asked Boeing to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:16:29 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rockefeller Eyes FAA Extension]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senate lawmakers are considering another three-month extension to FAA's operating authority, the clearest signal yet that a full reauthorization bill is not expected to be passed this year. The current extension expires Dec. 31, so a further one would extend through the end of March. This would be the eighth...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:24:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FAA issues NPRM on ice-detection equipment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US FAA yesterday issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to require "scheduled airlines to either retrofit their existing fleet with ice-detection equipment or make sure the ice protection system activates at the proper time," the agency said in a statement. For aircraft with an ice-detection system, FAA is proposing to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:06:32 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FAA computer glitch causes widespread delays, cancellations]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US FAA's computer system that processes flight plans failed for about 4 hr. yesterday, leading to numerous flight delays and cancellations throughout the country, the second such glitch in the past 15 months. In August 2008, its computer system in Atlanta that processes flight plans went down for several hours...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:22:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FAA's Flight-Plan System Crashes Again, Delays Hundreds of U.S. Flights]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A software configuration problem in one of the routers within the FAA's telecommunications infrastructure system in Salt Lake City shut down the flight-plan and traffic-flow system Nov. 19 for about four hours all over the United States, the FAA said. The routing problem also shut down the system's second data...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:05:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Computer glitch triggers flight chaos]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second such problem to hit the network in just over a year began at 5:00 am (1000 GMT) but was repaired within four hours, the Federal Aviation Administration FAA said. "A router problem disrupted a number of air traffic management services, including flight plan processing," it said in a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:54:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FAA denies Burbank curfew]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US FAA denied an application from the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority to institute a nighttime curfew on air traffic at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. The authority had sought permanently to ban operations from 10 p.m. to 6:59 a.m. local time except for law enforcement, medical flights, emergencies, etc. Passenger airlines...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:11:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Babbitt calls Northwest overfly incident example of pilot professionalism 'problem']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[US FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt yesterday said there is an "extreme need to refocus on professionalism" among airline pilots, citing the "recent very sad example" of two Northwest Airlines A320 pilots who "lost total situational awareness" and overflew their intended destination of Minneapolis-St. Paul. FAA last week revoked the licenses...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:50:19 -0800</pubDate>
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