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...Force would give regular training for pilots on civilian Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems; would implement new procedures to rely more heavily on radar and contact with controllers in identifying unexpected aircraft, and will conduct a special review of military operations in the region in cooperation with the FAA. While U.S. military craft will continue to guard coastal air space from intruders, commercial airliners hopping from Miami to Manhattan should not fear that they will be mistaken for hostile military planes...
...Jersey National Guard Colonel Thomas Griffin said that the airliner was never in danger and his pilots were only trying to identify a plane that should not have been in that sector of airspace, which is often restricted to military planes simulating combat. Transcripts obtained by TIME show that FAA controllers were upset at the cat-and-mouse game they felt the F-16 was playing. "You're supposed to keep your guy away from my guy," a New York controller griped to a Navy controller in Virginia, "and it's not looking like it's working that...
Both Pentagon and FAA officials expressed concern that some hotdogging may have occurred in the first flyby. Confirmation will have to await completion of a probe by the National Transportation Safety Board. Major General Donald Sheppard, head of the Air National Guard, attempted to put events in a positive light by noting with satisfaction that his pilots--and airline passengers as well--are learning about the sensitivity of the crash-avoidance gear installed on airliners in recent years. Such onboard units "are alerting us to things that happened all the time that we never knew before," he said. "This...
ValuJet maintenance chief David Gentry said his company accepted blame, but he insisted that it was SabreTech's job to equip the canisters with safety caps and pack the shipment properly. Failure to prevent this incompetence was laid to inspectors for the FAA, who complained that overwork and understaffing had made it tough to oversee the fast-growing ValuJet. Yet an FAA manager said he called for a review of ValuJet's authorization to fly three months before Flight 592 plunged into the Everglades shortly after taking off from Miami. The manager, John Tutora, said his report was ignored...
With travelers already leery following the crashes of TWA Flight 800 and a ValuJet plane, the FAA has gone out of its way to show its safety-mindedness. The latest step: last week the agency ordered emergency inspections of Boeing's venerable 737 jets. Reason: tests detected that rudder power control units (PCUS) might jam when extremely hot hydraulic fluid reaches a very cold "slide" (it's like a valve), although such a jam has never been reported in some 69 million flights of 737s worldwide. The rudder affects a jet's orientation. Each of the 2,700 737s...