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...FAA is under unprecedented pressure to do something. This week Congress will hold a hearing on runway incursions that is expected to get heated. Jim Hall, head of the National Transportation Safety Board and a close ally of Vice President Al Gore, will testify in detail about four of the most serious runway incursions of last year, and he will call on lawmakers to take swift action. "Runway incursions are the No. 1 problem in aviation today," says Hall. "The FAA has run off the runway and is in a ditch on this one, and they better get out quick...
...action by the FAA has been on hold since an Oakland grand jury began investigating similar charges. The inquiry involves several Alaska Airlines employees suspected of "pencil whipping"--falsifying, in the parlance of the industry--documents to indicate that maintenance checks had been done on some MD-80s when they were not. According to sources close to the investigation, the inquiry was widened recently after federal investigators suspected that more planes had not been properly checked. There has been no suggestion that the plane that crashed last week was part of any investigation. But the question remains: Was there some...
...Pacific Ocean on January 31 should make white-knuckle fliers feel a little safer. "This is a great aspect of U.S. civil aviation," says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson. "Day one you have an accident, and day 10 you have an MD-80-series airworthiness directive." On Thursday the FAA ordered an "urgent airworthiness directive" for all 1,100 MD-80-series jets similar to the one that went down en route from Mexico to San Francisco. The move follows a deep-ocean search effort that pulled damaged pieces of the MD-83's horizontal stabilizer, known as a jackscrew...
While truly anxiety-prone passengers may find little solace in the FAA's efficiency in the wake of the latest air disaster, at least they can take comfort in one trend. "There's no thread between this and other recent accidents," says Thompson. "Each accident is unique, and when there is a snafu with faulty mechanics, it's fixed pretty quickly...
...fares and solid investment backing from the likes of George Soros, the company seems as if it has a shot. Nearly one-third of start-ups since '92 have failed, but optimism abounds. JetBlue isn't the only start-up ready to take wing. Twenty-four others are awaiting FAA certification...