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...reported that the crew had underestimated the weight of the plane's passengers and baggage by at least six tons. Spurred by mounting pressure from Congress, the Federal Aviation Administration declared Arrow's remaining fleet of ten DC-8s no longer airworthy because critical replacement parts had not been FAA certified, and the Air Force then suspended Arrow's $21 million military-charter contract. Arrow called the Government's actions "unwarranted...
...summer of unprecedented air disasters, the Federal Aviation Administration was taking no chances. Investigators had discovered a crack in the airplane engine that caught fire on a Boeing 737 jet in Manchester, England, two weeks ago, causing an explosion and fire that killed 55 passengers. In reaction, the FAA ordered U.S. airlines to schedule inspections of all similar JT8D-15 airplane engines made by Pratt & Whitney, the nation's largest manufacturer of aircraft engines...
...associated with midair aircraft emergencies: the National Transportation Safety Board has reported problems with the turbine disks on five occasions in the past two years. But at least two-thirds of the 1,000 commercial jets in the U.S. that use the JT8D-15 are already subject to stringent FAA-approved maintenance programs, and will not require further inspection under the order...
...passenger fleet and causing flight delays of up to seven hours at the beginning of last week. British Airways announced that it had found engine problems similar to the one in the Manchester accident in four of its twelve Boeing 737s, but the airline's officials angrily denied an FAA allegation that the engine cracks were caused by operating the motors at excessively high temperatures. Still, many passengers are nervous. "People are making requests to sit near emergency exits, and there seems to be more than the normal level of cancellations," said one British Airways check-in clerk...
...FAA has also been looking for better ways to warn planes of violent wind shear, like the downdraft that caused a Delta L-1011 jet to crash near Dallas last month, killing 135. The FAA is proceeding with research into radar methods that can give better indications of wind shear. And in Tokyo, FAA officials, along with other U.S. experts, have gathered to assist in the investigation of the Aug. 12 crash of Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747 similar to many flown by U.S. carriers. A 60-page preliminary report released last week by Japan's Transport...