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...Swedish-born Werjefelt, 54, has failed to win over the FAA. It maintains that goggles and oxygen masks are all that flight crews need to cope with cockpit-smoke emergencies, which occur at the rate of 40 to 50 a year on U.S. domestic flights. The agency says studies show that efforts to set up and activate EVAS-like devices could distract pilots from the task of controlling their planes. Many flight crews would disagree, according to John Mazor, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 50,000 commercial pilots. The EVAS, he says, "really works...
...planes. After years of study, airlines still balk at installing individual smoke hoods that could provide each passenger with up to 30 min. of clean air. (Market leader Essex PB&R Corp. of Edwardsville, Ill., offers eight different versions at prices ranging from $160 to $750.) Nor has the FAA mandated hoods for passengers, although crews of commercial airlines have them. The airlines and FAA argue that smoke hoods could make it more difficult for passengers to evacuate a plane. Of course, that can also be difficult when you're blinded and choking on toxic fumes...
...that crash-landed in an Iowa cornfield in 1989. The Swissair MD-11 successfully underwent a thorough inspection just over a year ago, and Swissair's safety-and-maintenance record is solid. But did this model have a history of wiring problems? Since 1992, the FAA has issued a number of airworthiness directives expressing concerns with the electrical systems of MD-11s. Though A.D.s are not necessarily unusual--the FAA issues 400 a year for problems of varying degrees of urgency--several of those issued on the MD-11 refer to potential fire hazards. A 1996 advisory mandated the installation...
...Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA has plans to ground planes if its air-traffic system isn't repaired--and it may have to carry them out. The government's own accountants complained earlier this year that "at its present rate, the FAA will not make it." The Department of Transportation, meanwhile, flunked Horn's report card for its laughably poor efforts to overhaul its 630 most critical systems, which the agency says will be complete, oh, by sometime in 2004. Still, FAA Y2K chief Ray Long insists that air traffic is a top priority, and "there's no doubt...
Seattle, we have a problem?. Last week Continental Airlines mechanics found that fuel leaks in a wing tank had turned a Boeing 737 into a TWA 800 waiting to happen. The FAA ordered a nationwide check of the first two generations of the popular airliner, and after 14 further cases of dangerous wear in wires near fuel tanks were found in older 737s, the federal body yesterday grounded all 737-100s operating in the U.S. Experts believe that the problem is caused by engine vibrations on older versions...