The Federal Aviation Administration Enforcement Information System (EIS) database contains current and historical data on FAA enforcement actions against airlines, pilots, mechanics and their designees. The data include enforcement actions from 1999 to September 2007. All types of planes are included: passenger jets, cargo planes, helicopters, corporate/executive planes, military aircraft and foreign air carriers that are traveling in the United States. The data include enforcement actions against a variety of aviation personnel: commercial and private planes, student pilots, flight radio operators and navigators, mechanics, control tower operators, flight instructors and foreign airmen. Violation categories include: maintenance, hazardous materials, security, medical, drug testing, flight operations, aircraft alterations, training and near mid-air collisions.

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• Story No. 15476: The Federal Aviation Administration has failed to control hazardous materials violations by air carriers. Hazardous cargo often travels aboard commercial as well as cargo carriers.
• Story No. 15148: USA Today finds that half of the world's passenger jets contain electrical wire insulation that is considered unsafe by military and other wiring experts. Damaged wire insulation has led to fires and electrical equipment failure for years and may have played a role in two unsolved crashes: the recent Swissair Flight 111 accident off the coast of Nova Scotia and the explosion of TWA Flight 800 near Long Island in 1996.