{"id":253634,"date":"2013-04-23T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253634"},"modified":"2013-04-24T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T15:50:58","slug":"safety-lapses-at-east-texas-regional-airport-lead-to-federal-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253634","title":{"rendered":"Safety Lapses at East Texas Regional Airport Lead to Federal Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/East-Texas-Regional-Airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/East-Texas-Regional-Airport-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"East Texas Regional Airport\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-253693\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212;  An East Texas airport is fined after an investigation found safety lapses.  KETK reports Gregg County paid a $44,000 fine  after a 19-month federal investigation at East Texas Regional Airport.  The Longview News-Journal reports investigators found humps and a hole in the safety area of the airport&#8217;s 10,000-foot runway.  Other issues were lapses in live fire training and an incomplete rescue and fire staff back in the summer of 2011.  <\/p>\n<p>Gregg County Judge Bill Stoudt described the FAA\u2019s concerns as administrative.  \u201cAt no time was that airport ever considered unsafe in terms of any of the flights coming in,\u201d he said.  Airport Manager Roy Miller was hired at the end of December as part of the county\u2019s response to FAA findings that prompted the airport to be placed on a federal watch list of airports subject to unannounced inspections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; An East Texas airport is fined after an investigation found safety lapses. KETK reports Gregg County paid a $44,000 fine after a 19-month federal investigation at East Texas Regional Airport. The Longview News-Journal reports investigators found humps and a hole in the safety area of the airport&#8217;s 10,000-foot runway. Other issues were lapses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=253634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Safety Lapses at East Texas Regional Airport Lead to Federal Fine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 18:11:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253870,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253634\/revisions\/253870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}