Word: faa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commuter airline industry, responding to the FAA findings, acknowleged some shortcomings and attributed many of the problems to the industry's rapid growth in recent years...
...FAA inspections covered about 20 percent of 172 commuter air carriers. They followed seven commuter accidents over a four-month period in late 1987 and early 1988 resulting in 56 deaths...
...announcing the results of the inspection of the 35 commuter carriers, FAA Administrator Allan McArtor said in a letter to all commuter airlines...
...FAA said that it found in its inspections some of the airlines failed to fill management positions or filled them with "inexperienced or unqualified people." For example, the agency said, a chief pilot at one airline was not aware of regulations on how much rest pilots should be allowed...
...areas of training, the inspectors found that at times pilots did not complete required competency checks, training records were incomplete or did not exist and testing standards were obsolete, the FAA said...