Word: faa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Airlines DC-10 over Windsor, Ont., though the crew managed to land the plane safely. After investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board sent a number of recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration for implementation as an "airworthiness directive." The directive, a drastic order with compliance supervised by the FAA, would have forced McDonnell Douglas and airlines flying the DC-10 to make certain design changes in the cargo door...
...Explanation. Executives at McDonnell Douglas, however, talked the FAA out of issuing the directive. Instead, the company was permitted to send out its own "service bulletin" recommending some less fundamental changes than the NTSB wanted. McDonnell Douglas was supposed to modify the doors of planes still on its assembly line, as the ill-fated Turkish Airlines DC-10 then was. Three inspectors signed records indicating that the modification was made on that plane-but Douglas Division President John Brizendine conceded last week that it was not. Why not? "We do not yet have an explanation," he said...
...maker had enjoyed high reputations. The DC-10 went into service in August 1971, and had a safety record above average for a relatively new aircraft. Thirty-one airlines now fly a total of 128 DC-10s; passengers praise the craft as spacious and quiet, and the FAA says that they are all safe (the agency finally issued its airworthiness directive about cargo doors on March 6, three days after the Turkish Airlines disaster...
Freelandia received its license to operate from the FAA on August 7, 1973. Because it is an air club and not an airline, Freelandia is not subject to the Civil Aeronautics Board's now-skyrocketing uniform commercial rates. Hence the bargain...
...attorney for the FAA in San Francisco has said that Freelandia is entirely legal, as long as the club sticks to the charter of air travel clubs, which stipulates, among other things, that it cannot advertise...