Word: faa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radical Syria-based group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Only two months before the Pan Am bombing, during a raid on suspected PFLP-GC terrorists, West German police found a Toshiba Boombeat portable radio that held 10.5 oz. of plastic explosives. An FAA report on the discovery noted that the device "would be very difficult to detect by normal X-ray inspection, indicating that it might be intended to pass undiscovered through areas subject to extensive security controls, such as airports...
...Seattle Times, citing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, reported that United Airlines filed a "service difficulty report" in January 1987 on the 19-year-old jet after mechanics found cracks and corrosion around the pylon of the Number 3 engine...
Bobbie Mardis, and FAA spokesperson in Oklahoma City where the agency's safety files are kept, said the aircraft's history also included an engine fire...
...FAA spokesperson John Leyden in Washington said the pilot reported losing power in one right-side engine nine minutes after takeoff and, after turning to Honolulu, eight minutes later radioed he had lost power in the other right-side engine...
...deemed the airline safe. But Flight 251's harrowing ride rekindled suspicions that metal fatigue induced by changes in cabin pressure during thousands of takeoffs and landings have decreased the margin of safety in commercial aviation. Although older jetliners have been subject to special inspections since 1983, the FAA responded to the Aloha accident by ordering airlines to replace the rivets on 737s built before 1971. Last week the agency announced that a similar order for aging 727s would be issued in January...