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Topic: Federal Aviation Administration

X (Twitter) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Musk begs for air traffic controllers

Griffin Eckstein
Emergency response units search the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

No survivors: Plane crash kills 67

Charles R. Davis
A United Airlines passenger jet prepares to land at Reagan National Airport on February 5, 2020 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

How NOTAM keeps planes in the sky

Brian Strzempkowski - The Conversation
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Could better FAA regs have saved Kobe?

Bob Hennelly
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Military drones come home

Candice Bernd - Truthout
Robert J. MacLean speaks during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill June 9, 2015 in Washington, DC. The committee held the hearing on the Transportation Security Administration. (Brendad Smialowski/Afp via Getty Images)

The battle over aviation safety

Rick Schmitt - FairWarning
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How deregulation kills people

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Boeing 737 Max (Getty Images)

Union head: Crash report damns FAA

Bob Hennelly
(AP Photo/Cliff Owen) (AP)

Why pilots should sleep in the cockpit

Scott Winter, Stephen Rice - The Conversation
A hexacopter drone is flown during a drone demonstration at a farm and winery on potential use for board members of the National Corn Growers, Thursday, June 11, 2015 in Cordova, Md. Routine commercial use of small drones got a green light from the Obama administration June 21, 2016, after years of struggling to write regulations that would both protect public safety and unleash the economic potential and societal benefits of the new technology. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

Senators push FAA for drone ID rules

Alistair Charlton - GearBrain
(AP)

FAA wants to deregulate drones

Lauren Barack - GearBrain
FILE - In this April 14, 2016 file photo, a drone operated captures videos and still images of an apartment building in Philadelphia. A panel of privacy experts and technology companies organized by the Obama administration has issued guidelines for using drones without being overly intrusive. The suggestions are voluntary, but some business interests involved in the debate hope the guidelines head off tougher regulations that they fear could smother the drone industry in its infancy. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

Drone growth causing concerns

Paul Feldman - FairWarning
(AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Trump's pilot may lead the FAA

Matthew Rozsa
Paul Ryan; Mitch McConnell; Grenfell Tower (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Getty/Leon Neal/Salon)

No taxes? It all burns down

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Jo Comerford, Mattea Kramer - TomDispatch.com
People react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP/The Daily Free Press, Kenshin Okubo)

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