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Pilot Michael Martin and co-pilot Constantine Kleissaf disappeared for more than a day after talking to lawyers, which made drug and alcohol tests impossible. Martin had flown 737s for only two months. Kleissaf had been at the controls, even though it was his first time in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 and federal regulations require the pilot to take off and fly in bad weather. Next day, after questioning the two, the National Transportation Safety Board reported that Kleissaf had accidentally pushed a button that decelerated the plane. Martin tried to correct the situation manually, then aborted...
...their fuselage in midair. Last April a flight attendant was killed and 61 people were injured when a sizable piece of the fuselage of a Boeing 737 peeled off on an Aloha Airlines flight from Hilo, on Hawaii Island, to Honolulu, on Oahu. A subsequent inspection of all 737s ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration turned up tiny stress cracks in nearly half the planes. In December an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 was forced to land in Charleston, W. Va., after a 14-in. hole blew open in the plane's body...
While not ruling out pilot error, investigators are focusing on the possibility that the plane's electronic fire-alarm system failed and indicated trouble in the wrong engine, leading to a tragic mistake. As other Boeing 737s are being checked, the remains of Flight 92's engines have been sent back to their French co-maker, SNECMA, for examination...
...metal fatigue induced by changes in cabin pressure during thousands of takeoffs and landings have decreased the margin of safety in commercial aviation. Although older jetliners have been subject to special inspections since 1983, the FAA responded to the Aloha accident by ordering airlines to replace the rivets on 737s built before 1971. Last week the agency announced that a similar order for aging 727s would be issued in January...
...backlog of airliner orders already totals 1,102 at Boeing, 555 at Airbus and 320 at Douglas. A carrier that orders a jet today will have to wait as long as three years for delivery. Phoenix-based America West Airlines, which ordered 25 Boeing 737s and 757s last week, will take delivery of the first one in 1992. The jet-building boom may well last a decade or more. One Douglas study estimates that 2,500 commercial airliners -- 40% of the world's commercial-jet fleet of 6,200 planes -- will be retired during the next 15 $ years...