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They call this "practice." And safety experts say many more drills like this one are needed. My New Mexico maneuvers were part of a two-day program sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and backed by the Air Line Pilots Association to teach pilots how to prevent "loss of...
In a small building on the edge of the Roswell, N.M., airport, we were given a preflight briefing. Even the veteran pilots were getting butterflies as they listened to the flight plan. Knotts explained the sequence of maneuvers we would fly to re-create such real-life accident scenarios as...
PLEADED GUILTY. RICHARD REID, 29, British citizen and terror suspect known as the shoe bomber; to attempting to blow up an American Airlines flight using explosives contained in his hiking shoes; at a hearing in Boston. He faces 60 years to life in prison. "Basically, I got on the plane...
The FAA has not applied its own rule consistently. For many years the agency did not enforce the age limit for pilots of foreign airlines, and even after it began to, in 1978, it issued waivers for several more years. Only in 1995 did the FAA extend the rule to...
The pilots' petition will also probably fail. Both the airlines and the Airline Pilots Association support the Age 60 rule. "It's the 'bloody hand' syndrome," says an aviation expert. "No one wants to support a change and then see a 67-year-old pilot crash a plane full of...