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<text id=90TT0757>
<title>
Mar. 26, 1990: Business Notes:Air Safety
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 26, 1990 The Germans
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 61
Business Notes
AIR SAFETY
Shape Up And Fly Right
</hdr>
<body>
<p> After a major air crash, it can take the Federal Aviation
Administration months or even years to act to prevent a repeat
tragedy. Last week the FAA proposed an order to require DC-10
operators to modify their planes to prevent the kind of
hydraulic failure that caused a United Airlines DC-10 to crash
in Sioux City, Iowa, last July, leaving 112 dead. Expected to
take effect this summer, the order calls on U.S. airlines to
install a hydraulic shutoff valve in the tail section of 243
DC-10s at a collective cost of $7.7 million.
</p>
<p> The agency acted more swiftly to address another threat to
safety. Last week, just six days after a Northwest crew flying
from Fargo, N. Dak., to Minneapolis was found to have been
intoxicated on the job (though without incident), the FAA
ordered its inspectors to notify airlines whenever a crew
member is suspected of using drugs or alcohol before a flight.
The directive also gave inspectors more latitude to ground
flights in such cases. As for the three members of the
Northwest crew, the FAA revoked their licenses.
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