Laura Brown

Probe finds FAA hid Dallas airport safety errors

Report: FAA managers intentionally misclassified 62 safety errors Misclassifications an attempt to shift blame away from air traffic controllers A similar underreporting of safety errors was reported at the airport in 2004...

Headlines from Around the World

Italy: Italy's top court has awarded a man the right to disconnect the feeding tube that has kept his comatose daughter alive for 16 years. Catholic politicians and the Vatican are opposing the move, saying that it amounts to...

David Thomson on Julianne Moore

Do you remember The Hours? Nicole Kidman gave an unexpectedly fierce portrait of Virginia Woolf, writing her books, trying to maintain a marriage and a household, but advancing on her suicide in an English country river....

United 747 latest jet to test higher-mileage, lower-emission flight system across Pacific

By Julie Johnsson | Tribune reporter A United Airlines jumbo jet soaring across the Pacific Ocean Friday will test a new means of flying, and landing, designed to save fuel and reduce carbon emissions. United's Boeing 747 will...

Last-minute ballots present challenge for Nevada County election officials

GRASS VALLEY - The downside of the convenience and cost savings of mail ballots was apparent Wednesday: Election officials spent the day after Election Day counting thousands of vote-by-mail ballots that were handed in at the...

Nevada County farmers face tough road

By Laura Brown Sun News Service GRASS VALLEY — Farmers are reeling from the combined effects of a late spring frost, a smoky pall during the summer caused by wildfires and a statewide drought. Chris Bierwagen’s peach and apple...

McCain Plane Aborts Landing in New Mexico, FAA Says (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain's presidential campaign jet aborted a landing seconds before touchdown in Albuquerque, New Mexico, today because a C-130 military aircraft was slow in exiting the runway, the...

Brown not giving up on county seat

GOP candidate challenges Bell for council By ANGIE BASIOUNY • The News Journal • November 1, 2008 New Castle County Council candidate Laura Brown is hoping the third time is the charm. Brown, a human resources director for a...

Medevac copter pilot sought air traffic controller help

But air controller not trained, medevac crash report says The pilot of the medevac helicopter that crashed in Prince George's County last month asked an air traffic controller for turn-by-turn landing instructions before he...

Controller Not Required to Know Procedure, FAA Says

A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said yesterday that an air traffic controller who was unable to assist in a rare landing procedure requested by the pilot of a Maryland State Police medical rescue helicopter before...

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