Articles tagged “safety”

Days after Lebanon was ready to sue an American TV series for an unfair portrayal of its capital city, a car bomb exploded and demonstrations over took the city leading to a drop in tourism that the country badly wanted to avoid.

What makes the Grand Canyon beautiful is what can also make it deadly with no resources for help beyond the rim and trails that host humans, mules, and intense heat.

This is pretty bizarre as far airport stories go, but it's better the ammonia fumes spread throughout the airport rather than a plane where passengers would have no chance to breath fresh air.

Sometimes the no-fly list can seem arbitrary. Why was Wade Hicks Jr. on it, only to find out he was cleared to fly a few days later?

Looks like the TSA “3-1-1” liquid system is here to stay as the DHS tests technology that would expedite the security scanning process and more accurately tests for explosives.

Airlines focused on their immediate bottom lines are against safety rules that limit pilot’s flying time or extend training, perhaps forgetting that the fall out from one crash lasts longer than just one quarter.

It’s a question that causes friction in social travel sites all the way to up to the Peace Corps, but organizations’ past actions suggest that it is up to individuals’ discernment to stay out of harm’s way.

It's great that American is fixing this issue, but they can do so without reminding passengers of the mistake itself. It's not as if fixing a mistake no other airline has ever had is something to brag about.

Turns out birds like hanging out at airports more than any other creature, so developing a strategy to shoo them off runways is an on-going battle.

The clamps seem more like PR band aids than devices meant to protect. After American blamed disconnected seats on soda and other spills, it's hard for consumers to trust what they're being told.