home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- BUSINESS, Page 61Business NotesAIR SAFETYShape Up And Fly Right
-
-
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-