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Sensitive to public alarm, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole has sped up programs to bolster the FAA's staff and equipment. She has proposed a fiscal 1988 budget supplement of $51.5 million to hire 955 more air-traffic personnel, including 580 more controllers. That would bring the total ranks of controllers to 15,805. Meanwhile, the FAA is in the midst of a ten-year, $16 billion project to upgrade air-traffic computers, radar and other systems so that controllers will be able to handle swarms of planes with far greater precision...
...been forced to adopt because of the low fares they have been charging. One area in which airlines may be tempted to cut back is aircraft maintenance, and several airlines -- among them American, Eastern and Pan Am -- have received hefty fines for violations of federal regulations. Even so, the FAA has been slow to step up its inspections in keeping with the growth of airline fleets, according to a General Accounting Office study published in May. From 1981 until 1983 the ranks of FAA inspectors actually shrank, from about 1,750 to 1,500. But at least partly in response...
...result, disclosed last week: the weapons passed through 20% of the time on average. At Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, two-thirds of the concealed armaments escaped detection. The FAA blamed the failures not on faulty metal detectors or luggage X rays but on guards who failed to pay attention...
...FAA's glowing new capability is attracting curiosity from other federal agencies. The Defense Department, which must monitor the flow of aircraft into the U.S.'s air defense identification zone, is said to be fascinated by the new system. So is the Drug Enforcement Administration, which desperately seeks to know the identity of every aircraft entering U.S. airspace, especially those from the south. They are particularly impressed with an FAA feature that allows controllers to place an electronic cursor over an individual blip, press a key and see all the available aircraft data displayed on the screen. Any blip that...
...first time, the FAA can view all of the nation' s airways on one display screen. -- A "magician" exploits bank cash machines...