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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...
...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...
...plane had missed one approach to Kennedy and gone around a second time, according to the FAA's Bergen. CNN reported that the plane ran out of fuel before it crashed...
Control tower officials said the plane may have lost power in one of its four engines. Bergen, the FAA spokesperson, said the agency had reports the plane lost a second engine as well...