Word: faa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeking traces of the six-passenger craft. The principal object of the search was House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, 58, who was in Alaska campaigning for Congressman Nick Begich. With Boggs and Begich in the plane were Begich's assistant, Russel Brown, and Pilot Don Jonz. According to FAA authorities, Jonz filed a flight plan that would have taken them through the rugged Chugach Mountains, 547 air miles southeast to Juneau...
...considered one of the best of Alaska's bush pilots, he has gained a reputation of being something of a daredevil during his 15 years of flying. He lost his license in 1966 for flying an overweighted airplane in Florida, but was back in good standing with the FAA in 1968. There may still be some questions about his judgment, although flying in Alaska is a dicey enterprise. When the Jonz plane took off from Anchorage, cloudy, turbulent flying conditions were forecast...
...measures. While a few carriers such as Eastern, TWA and American are making serious attempts to maintain effective surveillance and deterrent devices, others are deliberately dogging it to try and force the Federal Government into picking up the tab for airline security (e.g., magnetometers, sky marshals, X-ray equipment). FAA officials and the pilots are becoming more fed up by the day. Said Captain Al Bonner, vice president of the Air Line Pilots Association, which recently called a 24-hour protest strike: "The public, we feel, should stand up with us by refusing to fly on airlines that continue...
With all its advantages, area navigation has clearly earned its place in the airliner's cockpit. It has strong support from FAA Administrator John Schaffer, who has set aside 16 high-altitude corridors for R-Nav flights, despite the opposition of some FAA controllers who feel that it would rob them of authority and perhaps eventually their jobs. Commercial pilots, almost to a man, are fully convinced that R-Nav has the potential of making air travel faster, safer and more dependable than ever before...
...allay public jitters, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it was investigating the airlines involved for failure to screen passengers before departure. An offense against that rule, which was adopted by the FAA last February, could bring fines of $1,000 each. The FAA charged that neither United nor PSA had prescreened passengers on the flights that were hijacked, and Frontier admitted that its metal-detection devices at Albuquerque were not working on the day Chavez-Ortiz pulled his protest hijack. In addition to using metal detectors, airlines are supposed to scrutinize passenger behavior at ticket counters to spot potential...