Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blind Spots. Sauer's was not the only alarm sounded at the meeting. United Airlines reported that in three years of monitoring 175 pilots for symptoms of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, they discovered that 20% showed some tendency toward the condition. Two of these pilots had such attendant...
Most of the country's major airlines subject their pilots to examinations with more rigorous standards than the FAA'S. American Airlines' testing includes brain-wave monitoring and screening for "prediabetic" and heart problems. Pan American, Trans-World Airlines and United are similarly strict. The Mayo Clinic...
The principal characters in the Houston skyjacking and in an unsuccessful attempt two days later at New York City's Kennedy Airport seem to give Hubbard's theories even more credence. Charles Tuller, who led the band that took over the Eastern jet, could not sustain his marriage...
With such men, Hubbard believes, the threat of force is actually "counterproductive." In fact, the skyjacker seems to respond to greater force with increasingly violent tactics of his own. A good example, says Hubbard, is the sky-marshal program. "Before marshals arrived on the scene, skyjackers were arming themselves with...
However efficient the "drive to your gate" scheme seems, it does have a few drawbacks. Architects at the St. Louis firm of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, principal designers of the Texas airport, admit that airlines will have to add personnel to service each gate. In Kansas City, J.J. O'...