The incident reportedly occurred on April 10 when a United Airlines 757 was operating a Major League Baseball charter flight for the Colorado Rockies from Denver to Toronto.

We’re deeply disturbed by what we see in that video, which appears to show an unauthorized person in the flight deck at cruising altitude while the autopilot was engaged.

United Airlines statement

As a clear violation of our safety and operational policies, we’ve reported the incident to the FAA and have withheld the pilots from service while we conduct an investigation.”

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As a result, the agency is suggesting that all 787s in the United States undergo repeated inspections. This is because the FAA has received reports that water from the lavatory has been leaking onto equipment bays beneath the cabin floor on several 787s operated by one airline.

However, there is a disagreement between Boeing and the FAA about how prevalent the issue is across currently active 787s.

Why it’s concerning?

According to the Associated Press, Boeing informed airlines about the problem of leaky faucets in November. The FAA stated that one airline discovered a wet carpet in the cockpit of one of its planes and subsequently inspected its entire fleet of Boeing 787 jets, finding the issue on multiple aircraft.

Boeing has attributed the problem to a faulty O-ring in a bathroom faucet, which causes a slow leak of approximately eight ounces of water per hour.

The company claims that the problem is limited to a specific batch of 787s. However, the FAA is advocating for safety measures to be applied to all Dreamliners currently in operation.

According to reports, the FAA is proposing to conduct regular inspections of all Boeing 787 Dreamliners in the United States. FAA is concerned that leaks from the bathroom faucets could result in water seeping into the plane’s flight-critical electronics. Furthermore, this may lead to a “loss of continued safe flight and landing.”

This proposal will be open to public comment for 45 days before it can become an official FAA order.

The proposed order would apply to the 140 Dreamliners in the U.S. carrier fleets. It is intended to be a temporary measure until Boeing develops a permanent solution for the faulty faucet modules.

Reuters has reported that the FAA had previously halted the delivery of Dreamliners for a month starting in February due to a data analysis error.

However, after the recent suspension, Lufthansa (LH) received the first delivery of a Boeing 787. Despite these issues, Boeing claims that it is observing an unprecedented demand for the Dreamliner.

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Due to severe turbulence, the passenger onboard was shattered hard, and following this one person died.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the incident and shared it on Twitter.

NTSB is investigating the March 3 turbulence event involving a Bombardier Challenger 300 airplane that diverted to Windsor Locks, Connecticut and resulted in fatal injuries to a passenger.

— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) March 4, 2023

The US aviation regulatory body, FAA stated, a pilot was flying from Dillant-Hopkins Airport (EEN) in Keene New Hampshire to Leesburg Executive Airport in Virginia when the aircraft was redirected to Bradley International Airport (BDL).

As reported by wfsb.com, the Connecticut Airport Authority expresses that, the private plane was diverted to BDL around 4:00 pm due to a medical emergency. The state troopers also stated that they responded to the call for medical assistance at the airport.

There was a total of three passengers and two cabin crew onboard the private Bombardier Challenger 300.

The state police departed and stated, the NTSB along with the FBI is currently investigating the accident. The NTSB scrutinized the flight data and voice recordings to collect more details on this happening.

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Tens of thousands of travelers were left stranded Wednesday after the FAA sent out a tweet at 7:20 a.m. ordering the airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. ET “to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information” as it worked to restore the NOTAM system.

An engineer “replaced one file with another,” the official said, not realizing the mistake was being made. As the systems began showing problems and ultimately failed, FAA staff feverishly tried to figure out what had gone wrong.

The software that failed and forced the Federal Aviation Administration to ground thousands of flights on Wednesday is 30 years old and not scheduled to be updated for another six years, according to a senior government official.

This system was installed in 1993 and runs the Notice to Air Missions system, or NOTAM, which sends pilots vital information they need to fly, the official said.

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