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Meanwhile Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole announced that the FAA will require the 14 largest air carriers to report how often each flight is more than 15 minutes late for any cause except a mechanical problem. The flights will then be assigned a code that will show up on the computers of ticket and travel agents; travelers who ask will be given some idea of the reliability of the schedule for each flight. Similar reports will be required on the frequency of lost, delayed, damaged or pilfered baggage...
Such an oversight is almost unthinkable: a takeoff without extending the flaps, said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Spokesman John Leyden, is like driving off in a car without closing the door -- and far more dangerous. Yet such a lapse, notes University of Michigan Aeronautic Engineer C. William Kauffman, "would explain some of the things that were observed -- the aircraft using a lot of runway, not climbing very high, stalling...
...ultimate determination of a "probable cause" is made by the full NTSB after a public meeting that may not be held for nine to twelve months. Whatever the cause of the Detroit disaster, the doubts and conflicting reports are unnerving for airline passengers and officials alike. Notes newly appointed FAA Administrator T. Allan McArtor: "You work so hard to build into your system safety margins, procedures, mechanisms to deal with the human frailty. When these break down, it just stuns...
...Eastern's mechanics say they are under enormous pressure from management to work fast on the ground so that planes can spend more time in the air earning money. Supporting that charge, the airline's pilots since June have written more than 1,000 letters of complaint to the FAA and hundreds to Congress about Eastern's allegedly sloppy maintenance...
Serious accusations have been made by John King, a twelve-year veteran mechanic at Eastern's Logan Airport maintenance base in Boston, who was fired three weeks ago after he went public with complaints he had made to the FAA. Last week King described three incidents that he said occurred in Boston...