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Pilots, who are still bound by the FAA's age-60 rule, may now have a case to make. "If I'm safe one day before I'm 60," asks Jack Young, an involuntarily retired Eastern pilot, "how can I be unsafe one day later?" Others may ask the same question. Mandatory early-retirement rules for police, prison guards and fire fighters are now apparently subject to challenge. In fact, the high court unanimously ruled in a companion case last week that the city of Baltimore must provide new, more specific reasons for its rule that fire fighters retire...
Both aircraft were total losses. The pilot walked away from the first, cracked a vertebra in the second. What is more, the Federal Aviation Administration cited him 13 times for the second crash. Among his wrongdoings, said the FAA, was flying too low. That was a hard charge to dodge, since it is difficult to keep your nose up when you are unconscious and going down. In the end he enriched the FAA...
When it is not possible to land, Arnold drops the mail, employing passengers, if he has any, as bombardiers. He orders them to open a window, makes a pass at the lowest FAA-permitted altitude of 500 ft., yells, "Get ready . . ." and then explodes with "Now!" When the drop is dead on the money, as it often is, the involuntary first-time mail bomber gets a rush not unlike the sensation one associates with having just saved the Republic...
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole and FAA Chief Donald Engen insisted that the problems, which were concentrated for the most part among commuter airlines, are being solved without compromising passenger safety. Fully 95% of all carriers are in compliance with federal rules, they emphasized. But public concerns over airline safety violations remain. A week ago, for instance, the FAA grounded Iowa-based American Central. Just one day earlier, a plane operated by Provincetown-Boston Airline, which had resumed flying after a similar suspension, crashed in Jacksonville, killing all 13 Elizabeth Dole people aboard...
...pilot training and falsification of inspection records. Before it was grounded, P.B.A. was the largest commuter airline in the country, carrying 4,000 passengers daily, mostly in Florida and New England. P.B.A. had resumed flying only twelve days before last week's crash. Congress plans to ask the FAA why it returned P.B.A.'s license so soon. "There was a lot of pressure to get this carrier back in the skies again," said Congressman Dan Glickman of Kansas. "We need to find out if the FAA acted properly in reopening the carrier...