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...infrequent today that travelers rarely even think about them. That is the result of decades of aviation safety improvements and an accident investigation culture that looks for problems then fixes them. The recent record in the U.S. has been especially noteworthy. Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) oversight office, led by Associate Administrator Nicholas Sabatini, have made history in the past three years: the .017 accident rate per 100,000 takeoffs has made the U.S. the safest system ever...
...move is a belated retaliation for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration?s refusal to upgrade Venezuela?s air safety ranking, which was downgraded by the FAA a decade ago and prevents Venezuelan airlines from expanding their own number of flights to and from the U.S. Venezuela says it has exhausted "all conciliatory avenues" with the FAA. Its National Civil Aviation Institute insists it has completed internationally-certified improvements that warrant the U.S. upgrade and claims the Bush Administration is ignoring an international air accord, signed by both countries, that guarantees "principals of equality" in air service. But the FAA says...
...increasingly trying to paint him as a region-destabilizing dictator. This month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. needs to form a "united front" against Chavez as he seeks re-election later this year. Statements like this one have given Venezuela even more impetus to regard the FAA?s continued stance as political. And this latest fiasco may just be indicative of larger conflicts ahead...
...micro level, I had an up-close look at the loosening of concerns in one of the places you?d think would be most paranoid about security: a commercial flight. Over the holidays, the FAA temporarily resurrected the post-911 rule forbidding passengers from leaving their seats during the final half hour of any flight headed into Washington?s Reagan National Airport. Inconveniently, the crew of my Reagan-bound flight failed to warn passengers of the approaching limit (as was commonly done), until we had passed it, leaving me not only in need of a bathroom break, but also holding...
Sources: AP, FAA, Airbus; USA Today (2); Washington Post, NPR; Editor & Publisher...