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...conspicuous number of crashes have involved commuter airlines, including the October wreck of an American Eagle ATR-72 in Indiana that killed all 68 people on board. One reason for the increased number of commuter crashes is simply growth in traffic. Regional airlines that tend to operate smaller, prop-driven planes carried 50 million passengers in 1993, up from 15 million...
...grounded flights serving Chicago and five other Midwestern cities until Jan. 4. The commuter airline, beleaguered after two fatal crashes in six weeks and facing federal orders raising safety standards for all commuter aircraft, cited pilots' desire for more training in icing conditions. After grounding its entire Chicago-based ATR turboprop fleet Dec. 9 -- the models grounded in icy weather -- American Eagle had recently resumed the service with different planes. (An ATR model was involved in the Oct. 31 crash that killed 68 people in Indiana...
Over the weekend, about a dozen American Eagle pilots refused to fly ATR-72 turbo prop jets -- the model that crashed in Indiana a month ago -- believing that they are unsafe in cold, rainy weather, according to a report today in the Chicago Tribune. The management of American Eagle said a number of Sunday's flights had been cancelled. Meanwhile, the Association of Flight Attendants made public a letter sent last week to American Eagle expressing its members' safety concerns surrounding the planes. The flight attendants requested the airline ground the planes during icy weather until a federal review...
...packed ATR-72 plane, American Eagle Flight 4184, heading to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport from Indianapolis, crashed in a northwestern Indiana soybean field during a heavy rainstorm. All 68 people aboard perished...
...American Eagle that crashed in Indiana last week should be temporarily barred from flying in conditions that could cause steering mechanism icing. This development follows mounting evidence that the plane rolled out of control while on autopilot in just such conditions. The FAA has already barred crews of the ATR-72 -- the model of the American Eagle plane -- and of the similar ATR-42 from using the automatic pilot in icing conditions. But in a letter yesterday the government's National Transportation Safety Board urged the FAA to take the planes out of service until further analysis is done. About...