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...Diego airline pilot launched the legal challenge to the FAA rule, citing Fourth Amendment prohibitions of unreasonable searches. San Francisco's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FAA, and the high court leaves that decision intact -- ending the case, but not the controversy. "There's not really a serious drug problem in the federal work force," says a spokeswoman for the American Federation of Government Employees, which has filed several anti-drug-test lawsuits. "We think the government could be better spending the $79 million that it's got committed to drug testing this year...
Production of MD-80 jetliners has returned to profitability after serious problems, and the company's newest hope, the 325-passenger wide-bodied MD-11 jetliner, is going through beat-the-clock flight testing to get FAA certification in October. Even so, first deliveries to airline customers will be later than originally promised, and revving up construction lines will require an investment of $2 billion this year. McDonnell maintained that his action was necessary to get the company ready for tougher days ahead, saying, "We cannot guarantee jobs where they do not exist...
...more than $1 million each, thermal neutron analysis systems are designed to spot plastic explosives that can elude most other inspections. The FAA has installed TNA machines at two airports, New York City's Kennedy and Miami International, and plans to require U.S. airlines to purchase 150 of them, at a cost of $175 million. But the presidential commission contends that the machines are duds: if set to find a small bomb like the one that shattered Pan Am Flight 103 (apparently between 1 and 2 lbs.), they produce excessive false alarms...
...generate gamma rays; an array of detectors identifies the substance. But other items containing nitrogen, including wool sweaters and padded ski boots, can set off warnings. The manufacturer, Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego, says the false alarms can be reduced with further experience. At the moment, says FAA administrator James Busey, "we have no other system available...
...terrorist threat to flights within the U.S. than to international ones. Nonetheless, the commission urged that domestic travelers undergo the same tight screening that the Federal Aviation Administration now requires of U.S. airlines on international flights. The panel, headed by former Labor Secretary Ann McLaughlin, asked the FAA to station a security manager at major U.S. airports. FAA administrator James Busey, who praised the report, said some of the recommendations, including one for more sensitive metal detection, might go into effect within a "few weeks...