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DIED. ALF ENGEN, 88, king of downhill skiing, who excelled on the slopes as a jumper, coach and entrepreneur; in Salt Lake City, Utah...
...Senators found occasion last week to vent their anger about the situation during confirmation hearings for T. Allan McArtor, President Reagan's nominee to be the new head of the FAA, replacing Donald Engen, who left office July 2. McArtor, 45, a senior vice president of Federal Express who flew combat missions in Viet Nam and did a stint with the Air Force's Thunderbirds precision-flying team, is expected to win easy confirmation. The Senators, however, put McArtor on notice. "You have got a crisis on your hands," declared Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat. Warned Ted Stevens...
...collision was a postscript to a year in which 828 near-midairs were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency's boss, Donald Engen, noted that the FAA will soon introduce new air-collision warning devices for airliners and more sophisticated computers for the air-traffic control system, but he suggested that the "solution to the midair collision threat will still be the pilot." There is no substitute, Engen said, "for a vigilant airman...
Although the airlines must pay for installing TCAS II, they support Engen's decision to proceed. Many pilots, however, would prefer to wait for more advanced technology. TCAS II can tell a plane to go up or down to get out of danger, but not whether to swerve left or right, the escape maneuver considered safer by pilots. That will come in the FAA's TCAS III system, which is at least two years off, and perhaps as many as five. But, says Engen, "wouldn't you rather go down or up, and miss, rather than sit around...
Langdon, who has since retired, wrote to Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole protesting what he called a "cover-up." Dole did not respond, but FAA Chief Donald Engen says "there is no basis in fact for what Mr. Langdon states . . . When you get down to it, you find it to be a labor-management issue...