Today is Drowsy Driving Awareness Day and the National Highway Transportation Association wants you to know that this is a real and present danger on Tennessee roads. Safety officials say that over 20% of all deaths in any year are caused by people falling asleep at the wheel. They report that a growing number [...]
Preliminary Findings of Germanwings Crash Point to Murder/Suicide As the stunned world tries to absorb the preliminary findings of authorities, the horrific reality of a deranged co-pilot killing 149 innocent souls and himself on purpose is hard to stomach. While there were many possibilities floating around until last night, the New York Times first broke [...]
The live flight track of doomed Luthansa Germanwings Flight 4U 9525, an airbus 320, shows the sudden loss of communcation with air traffic controllers and the plane and pilots. This prompted the controllers to issue a distress call on behalf of the flight. Early reports said that the pilots issued a distress call, but that [...]
We watched in 2014 as millions of vehicles were recalled due to faulty Takata airbags and now 2015 begins with a second round of recalls for the same airbag. If you own a vehicle that has been issued an airbag recall, you now have two separate issues with your airbag. The first problem is your airbag could [...]
Opryland Hotel, the Flu, and Hand Sanitizers - They've got more in common than you might guess. We get bombarded with alot of health information. The latest that has impacted thousands of Tennesseans is that this season's flu vaccine is about 23% effective against this year's strain of flu. Basically, the medical elite were outsmarted by [...]
Air Traffic Controller states "The screens just went blank" at Heathrow Airport in London Citing first a "computer glitch" and then a power failure at Stanwick Air Control Center near Hampshire, Heathrow Airport has taken the almost unbelievable action of essentially closing down the airspace coming into and departing from the airport except for those [...]
Tennessee Aviation Attorney Keith Williams to Moderate IATSBA Aviation Law Conference in New York Tennessee Aviation Attorney Keith Williams will be serving as Moderator at the IATSBA Air and Transportation Law Conference in New York next week. He and his panel of fellow aviation law attorneys from across the country will be speaking on: Major [...]
It's hard to talk to teenagers about anything. You have to get them to unplug from whatever has their interest at the moment and then you're fighting every minute to keep their attention. That doesn't mean we still don't keep trying. Even if it seems like they aren't paying attention to a word you're saying, [...]
Two families have retained Keith Williams to further investigate the circumstances surounding the near tragic incident of Southwest Flight 2294. Southwest flight 2294 was traveling from Nashville, TN to Baltimore, MD when the passengers were forced to experience a life-changing event. The Boeing 737-300 made an emergency landing in Charleston, WV after an explosive and [...]
A fire apparently started in a bathroom in an Aurora Illinois flight control tower, which handles the traffic for both the O'Hare and Midway airports in Chicago. The cause of the fire is unknown as well as what, if any damage, was caused by smoke or fire supression systems in the rest of the building. [...]