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Such an oversight is almost unthinkable: a takeoff without extending the flaps, said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Spokesman John Leyden, is like driving off in a car without closing the door -- and far more dangerous. Yet such a lapse, notes University of Michigan Aeronautic Engineer C. William Kauffman, "would explain some of the things that were observed -- the aircraft using a lot of runway, not climbing very high, stalling...
...Eastern's mechanics say they are under enormous pressure from management to work fast on the ground so that planes can spend more time in the air earning money. Supporting that charge, the airline's pilots since June have written more than 1,000 letters of complaint to the FAA and hundreds to Congress about Eastern's allegedly sloppy maintenance...
Serious accusations have been made by John King, a twelve-year veteran mechanic at Eastern's Logan Airport maintenance base in Boston, who was fired three weeks ago after he went public with complaints he had made to the FAA. Last week King described three incidents that he said occurred in Boston...
...FAA officials were taking a hard look at Eastern Air Lines, where some workers have complained that they have been forced to cut corners on maintenance. Since mid-July, the agency has conducted inspections of Eastern's operation at Boston's Logan International Airport. After an FAA visit last Thursday, the airline canceled or delayed several flights to make aircraft repairs...
Controversy about Eastern's maintenance record flared up earlier in the week after the airline fired John King, 45, a Boston-based mechanic. Eastern said King was sacked because he had falsely accused the airline of violating safety procedures. As King tells it, he notified the FAA of problems with Eastern's maintenance procedures, including the fact that some repairs were not recorded in the mechanics' logbooks. In one instance last May, says King, his supervisor did not want to record a fuel leak on an Airbus A-300 jet because the plane might have to be taken...