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...plan's takeoff may be delayed in Congress. Some lawmakers believe that the FAA should first spend the $7.6 billion surplus already set aside in a fund for aviation improvements. Meanwhile, strain on the system keeps growing. By 2001, the FAA predicts, annual air-passenger traffic will increase an additional...
After a major air crash, it can take the Federal Aviation Administration months or even years to act to prevent a repeat tragedy. Last week the FAA proposed an order to require DC-10 operators to modify their planes to prevent the kind of hydraulic failure that caused a United Airlines DC-10 to crash in Sioux City, Iowa, last July, leaving 112 dead. Expected to take effect this summer, the order calls on U.S. airlines to install a hydraulic shutoff valve in the tail section of 243 DC-10s at a collective cost of $7.7 million...
...agency acted more swiftly to address another threat to safety. Last week, just six days after a Northwest crew flying from Fargo, N. Dak., to Minneapolis was found to have been intoxicated on the job (though without incident), the FAA ordered its inspectors to notify airlines whenever a crew member is suspected of using drugs or alcohol before a flight. The directive also gave inspectors more latitude to ground flights in such cases. As for the three members of the Northwest crew, the FAA revoked their licenses...
...more babes in arms. Last week U.S. airlines asked the Federal Aviation Administration to require that children under two be strapped into safety seats whenever they fly. In the past year two unsecured young children were killed in air crashes. Under present FAA rules, infant safety seats are not mandatory; some parents have reported that they were not allowed to bring them into the cabin...
Pregnant crew members have special concerns. The FAA says women who fly throughout the first seven months of pregnancy may exceed the recommended radiation doses for fetuses and slightly boost the risk of birth defects. Some experts feel such women should consider taking leaves or working on less exposed routes, especially from the eighth to the 15th week of pregnancy. Others emphasize that the radiation is much less hazardous than other dangers of everyday life. Says Dr. Wallace Friedberg, head of radiobiology at the FAA: "If my wife was a flight attendant and pregnant, I would not tell...