Southwest Airlines 31, a Boeing 737 aircraft, rolled off a taxiway into the grass and got stuck while taxiing to its gate at Nashville International Airport at 5:30 p.m. Central Time. Passengers left the aircraft via stairs and were bussed to the terminal.

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On the most recent issue, the FAA's process is designed to discover and highlight potential risks. The FAA recently found a potential risk that Boeing must mitigate, the FAA will lift the aircraft's prohibition order when we deem it is safe to do so.

The cockpit voice recorder( CVR) and flight data recorder( FDR) information have been downloaded from the units and are in possession of the Ethiopian authorities.

There is the potential for the resulting event to exceed the capabilities of the airplane to cope with it.

An unsafe condition exists that requires the immediate adoption of this AD without providing an opportunity for public comments prior to adoption, the FAA has found that the risk to the flying public justifies waiving notice and comment prior to adoption of this rule because certain fan blades must be inspected, and, if needed, replaced before further flight.

An air traffic controller sent the Air Canada jet around, the plane made another approach and landed without incident.

The structure as described exceeds obstruction standards and/or would have an adverse physical or electromagnetic interference effect upon navigable airspace or air navigation facilities.

Safety is always the FAA's top priority, and we are concerned about the increasing number of instances where pilots have reported seeing unmanned aircraft flying nearby.

Shining a laser at an aircraft is a federal crime. by The FAA

Shining a laser at an aircraft is a federal crime.

We anticipate receiving valuable data from each of these trials that could result in FAA-approved operations in the next few years, integrating unmanned aircraft into our airspace is a big job, and it's one the FAA is determined to get right.

These companies reached out to us in exploring three key types of commercial operations, what we’re trying to understand is what can we accommodate, what can we accommodate safely, and then what do we learn from that.

We have tried to be flexible in writing these rules, we want to maintain today's outstanding level of aviation safety without placing an undue regulatory burden on an emerging industry.

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In several incidents both inside and outside the transportation industry, e-cigarettes have overheated or caught fire when the heating element was accidentally activated.

We are continuing to work with our administration colleagues to finish the rule, our goal is to get the proposal right.