A flock of geese can cause the problem, but this seems to be recurring. It's not a common problem. We have had it occur at facilities before. |
About 75 miles east of Boston they started getting smoke in the cockpit. |
Inspectors will try to determine why the canopy came off the aircraft. They need to look at the maintenance of the craft before making a decision. |
It is scheduled to take effect. |
That could have been a reason. That's what we're going to find out. |
The air traffic operation continues to run smoothly, even though we are experiencing delays in the system. |
The New York-New Jersey metro area is a very busy airspace, but it's a very safe airspace. |
The program office has been working on this for the past several months. |
They worked through the night to install the antenna. |
This announcement is not in response to the union's press conference. This is an announcement we'd been working on for a number of months. |
This is very rare. Occasionally, about two or three times a year, we get calls about smaller pieces falling off, but nothing like an entire canopy. |
We basically slowed the system down a little bit until we can correct the problem. |