Word: faa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that stand virtually completed at its assembly plants in Renton and Everett, Wash. The company pledges to observe strict safety standards. But the Federal Aviation Administration, taking no chances, announced last week that it would "significantly expand" its inspections of the company's assembly lines to ensure compliance with FAA rules...
...task force was launched last year after a section of fuselage ripped off an Aloha Airlines 737, sucking a flight attendant out of the plane. The group's report on McDonnell Douglas aircraft followed a May FAA order for the overhaul of 1,300 vintage Boeing aircraft. Taken together, the moves were aimed at rejuvenating the 3,300-jet U.S. fleet, which averages 13 years of service per plane and is the oldest in the non-Communist world...
...debt-heavy buyout would affect their maintenance practices. "There sure as hell won't be any scrimping on maintenance here," says United's O'Gorman. "Our rule is that time and cost are not considerations when maintaining airlines." At Northwest, which paid a $650,000 fine to the FAA last month after a 1988 inspection turned up a list of maintenance problems, officials contend that the carrier has an ample cash flow to repay its debt without lowering its maintenance standards. Wall Street analysts tend to accept such views. Says Julius Maldutis, who follows the industry for Salomon Brothers...
Until we know for sure that DC-10s are just as safe as any other airplane, the FAA should ground the plane. The cost in human terms is too great to do anything else...
...pilot did an outstanding job," Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson John Mogul said. "The pilot held the nose off the ground, then lowered the nose slowly to the runway...