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...agency said that PBA was guilty of potentially dangerous cost-cutting practices. Among other violations, the FAA contended that the airline falsified safety records, failed to train its pilots properly, postponed aircraft inspections and allowed unqualified mechanics to maintain electrical gear. The emergency grounding gives credence to suspicions that were aroused in September by a tragic error. A propeller-driven PBA plane crash-landed and burned shortly after taking off from a Naples, Fla., airport; one passenger was killed and four others were injured. It was the first fatality in PBA's history. FAA investigators found that a member...
...FAA also revoked the pilot's license of Chairman John Van Arsdale Jr. He. was charged with failing to land a plane promptly after it developed troubles in its hydraulic controls. Van Arsdale, who has resigned, was replaced by Edwin Putzell, a retired lawyer and PBA board member. "I'm so shocked right now," Van Arsdale said. "I just can't believe it's happening. We had offered to cooperate with [the FAA] in any way they wanted...
...accord will reduce competition and hurt new airlines. Declares Michael Muse, chairman of Muse Air, a Dallas-based discount carrier: "If you take away the airlines' prerogative of scheduling flights when the passenger wants them, then you take away deregulation and put everything in the hands of the FAA. That was certainly not the intent of the people who wrote the deregulation legislation...
...drop of 2,850, or 17%, since President Reagan fired striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization in 1981. Says Delta Chairman Garrett: "The main reason for the delays is that the air-traffic system has not been brought back to where it was by the FAA." The agency has promised to add 1,400 controllers by Sept. 30 of next year...
...delays stacked up last month, the FAA issued a stern warning to the airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules...