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...glitches contributed to yet another bad week for the airline industry, which has recently been hit by a frightening succession of near disasters. The FAA launched investigations of the two incidents and a check of computer operations at the agency's 22 control centers in the U.S. What apparently happened at Nashua was that a technician performing routine maintenance on the electrical system accidentally cut off its power. The FAA has not yet determined what caused the electrical problem in Leesburg...
...FAA officials were taking a hard look at Eastern Air Lines, where some workers have complained that they have been forced to cut corners on maintenance. Since mid-July, the agency has conducted inspections of Eastern's operation at Boston's Logan International Airport. After an FAA visit last Thursday, the airline canceled or delayed several flights to make aircraft repairs...
Controversy about Eastern's maintenance record flared up earlier in the week after the airline fired John King, 45, a Boston-based mechanic. Eastern said King was sacked because he had falsely accused the airline of violating safety procedures. As King tells it, he notified the FAA of problems with Eastern's maintenance procedures, including the fact that some repairs were not recorded in the mechanics' logbooks. In one instance last May, says King, his supervisor did not want to record a fuel leak on an Airbus A-300 jet because the plane might have to be taken...
Individually, each of these incidents could be a rare mistake or malfunction. But together they form a pattern of blunders that calls into question Delta's competence. Said Acting FAA Administrator Robert Whittington: "Each incident apparently involved human error, and this is a matter of great concern to us." The agency will examine, among other things, the carrier's pilot-training programs and long-range navigation procedures...
...FAA Nominee McArtor, for one, hardly needs to be convinced. "I think airline service is rather poor," he told Senators last week. "I have stood ) in line and have been delayed and have been denied and have been bumped and canceled and lost my bags and have been frustrated along with the rest of the passenger public...