Less than a third of global airlines in the Americas, Europe and Asia provide training to company officials on how to deal with the onslaught of media attention that follows an airline disaster outside their home market, according to a survey by Kenyon International Emergency Services. Houston-based Kenyon, which counts about 150 international airlines as clients, is best known for its disaster management responses to such horrific events as the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S., the 2002 bombing in Bali and the 2005 tsunami in South Asia.
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The FAA is making progress on rolling out new performance-based navigation procedures, says Nicholas A. Sabatini, associate administrator for aviation safety. Sabatini, speaking at an FAA air navigation workshop in Arlington, Va., said the agency has commissioned 35 Required Navigation Performance (RNP) procedures, and three more will be published this week. The FAA is also on track to publish a total of 25 RNP procedures this fiscal year and an additional 50 area navigation standard instrument departure and arrival procedures.
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The U.S. Air Force has approved the system critical design review for the Space-Based Space Surveillance system and authorized the $400-million SBSS Pathfinder mission to proceed with a December 2008 launch. A full SBSS constellation is to be launched in the next decade, but the cost of that program, which is to replace an aging network of ground telescopes and radars, is under scrutiny by the Air Force.
