Word: faa
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...arrives, computers across the country could start going down like rosebuds in a hailstorm. In congressional hearings early last year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) roundly criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for its lack of progress towards a Y2K solution. To address the problem, the FAA and the OMB worked together to lay out an aggressive timetable...
...investigated the FAA progress, and though it?s true that they?ve made many positive gains since last February, don?t be fooled. The FAA is far from out of the woods, and the flip side of its shiny Krugeraand of reassurance is a dull and gritty kopek of uncertainty and unanswered questions...
WASHINGTON: Children's pajamas are flame-retardant ?- maybe airplanes should be too. That?s the brilliant conclusion the FAA has finally come to in the wake of the crash of Swissair flight 111. The agency, expecting new tests to show that the insulation in the bodies of almost all of the world's 12,000 passenger jets may catch fire when exposed to heat, officially recommended that the planes be retrofitted with new flame-retardant insulation...
...cost of adding the insulation would run into the billions, which may be one reason why the FAA isn't sounding an urgent alarm. It hasn?t issued an "airworthiness directive," the FAA's term for something that must be done at once. Instead, the agency suggests that the retrofit be performed at each plane?s next scheduled maintenance check, or thereabouts. The FAA has known about the potential insulation problem for years -- its Chinese counterpart reported the problem in 1996 after a Chinese Eastern MD-11 caught fire in Beijing. Hopefully, no more fresh evidence will come along...
That's one reason some 300 of the FORTUNE 500 companies have installed smoke hoods on their corporate jets. And it's why safety-minded staff members of the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board--which investigates air crashes--regularly stow smoke hoods in carry-on luggage when they...