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It is located at 512 Division Street in Farmington, Minnesota, United States. [2] The primary responsibility of Minneapolis Center is sequencing and separation of overflights, arrivals, and departures, in order to provide safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of aircraft filed under instrument flight rules .
A map showing the borders of the United States' flight information regions as well as that of Canada and other neighboring nations. Old Federal Aviation Administration airspace map of ARTCCs in the United States overlaid with what states they cover Flight Information Regions (FIR) of France FIR and jurisdictional airspace in Japan FIR and jurisdictional airspace in South Korea
As a result of the March 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash and the Lion Air Flight 610 crash five months earlier, most airlines and countries began grounding the Boeing 737 MAX 8 (and in many cases all MAX variants) due to safety concerns, but the FAA declined to ground MAX 8 aircraft operating in the U.S. [56] On March 12, the FAA ...
In late 2018, the German Minister of Defense said that the German government is open to the possibility of opening some official positions to skilled EU citizens. In particular, positions such as medical officers and logistics officers are difficult to fill after the abolition of the mandatory military service in 2011.
The FAA has mandated the use of flight dispatchers/joint responsibility/flight watch since the "Civil Aeronautic Act" was passed in 1938. Canada has adopted a similar approach in the wake of the Air Ontario Flight 1363 plane crash in Dryden, Ontario, in 1989. Due to several more accidents, the FAA is lobbying the ICAO for tighter regulations.
Live updates: Global tech outages hit airlines, banks and businesses The Federal Aviation Administration “is closely monitoring a technical issue impacting IT systems at U.S. airlines,” the ...
The typical instructor is a retired military officer, a graduate of a formal test pilot school, has a master's degree or higher, with over 15 years of flight test experience and 7+ years instructing experience with 5–10 years employment at the NTPS. Roughly half of the staff members are US citizens and half are international.
The FAA increased its scrutiny of the company after a panel blew off a Boeing Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. A Boeing spokesperson said Friday, “We continue to cooperate fully ...