Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited Oklahoma City as a part of the Biden Administration’s “Investing in America” tour.

The agency's preliminary review determined it was unintentional as the contractors worked "to correct synchronization" between databases.

The FAA will require airlines to give flight attendants at least 10 hours of rest time in between shifts, the same as pilots, to help reduce fatigue. Current rules allow as little as 8 hours of rest.

Regulations require 1,500 hours of flight time for pilot certification. Regional airline Republic Airways wanted graduates of its flight school to be eligible in half that time. The FAA said no.

The current standard requires a minimum of 1,500 flight hours for a co-pilot.

The temporary ban will remain in place until the statue's removal on Wednesday. The FAA says it was putting the ban in place for "Special Security Reasons."

The engineers, who are deputized to approve safety assessments for the Federal Aviation Administration, are raising concerns about their ability to work free of pressure from supervisors.

Nearly 4,000 incidents of disruptive behavior have been logged on planes this year, according to the FAA.

Federal aviation regulators have called for investigations into Boeing 777 jets equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney 4000 engines.

After incidents of Trump supporters engaging in threatening and disruptive behavior on flights to and from Washington, D.C., last week, the FAA enacts a "zero tolerance" policy.