Word: faa
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...glitches contributed to yet another bad week for the airline industry, which has recently been hit by a frightening succession of near disasters. The FAA launched investigations of the two incidents and a check of computer operations at the agency's 22 control centers in the U.S. What apparently happened at Nashua was that a technician performing routine maintenance on the electrical system accidentally cut off its power. The FAA has not yet determined what caused the electrical problem in Leesburg...
Individually, each of these incidents could be a rare mistake or malfunction. But together they form a pattern of blunders that calls into question Delta's competence. Said Acting FAA Administrator Robert Whittington: "Each incident apparently involved human error, and this is a matter of great concern to us." The agency will examine, among other things, the carrier's pilot-training programs and long-range navigation procedures...
...first five months of this year, consumer complaints to the Transportation Department about poor airline service reached 9,812, an 81% increase over the same period last year. The number of flight delays of 15 minutes or more at the 22 busiest U.S. airports, as compiled by the FAA, rose by 13% in the first three months of 1987 compared with the first quarter of last year. Says Nozomu Kaneda, of Kingston, N.Y., an IBM technician who flies often: "Delays occur so frequently that I feel lucky whenever one lasts less than an hour." A Government study of service...
...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...
...FAA Nominee McArtor, for one, hardly needs to be convinced. "I think airline service is rather poor," he told Senators last week. "I have stood ) in line and have been delayed and have been denied and have been bumped and canceled and lost my bags and have been frustrated along with the rest of the passenger public...