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...properly repaired and maintained. The 747 that struck a mountain in Japan apparently lost control of its rear navigation system. Boeing has since acknowledged that a repair of the back hull, which it performed seven years before the accident, was improperly done. In view of that, the FAA ordered immediate reinspection of all similar repairs. The agency has been cracking down on improper maintenance practices. Says Engen: "In the past two years, we have put on the ground, or severely restrained, 52 airlines." A grounded carrier may not legally fly until the problems that led to its suspension have been...
...meager to thwart an assault by a force the size of the one al-Qaeda put together when it attacked the U.S. on 9/11--Mohammed Atta's band of 19 hijackers. "The NRC and the nuclear power industry," says a senior U.S. antiterrorism official, "are today where the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] and airlines were on Sept. 10, 2001." Whereas the U.S. has spent $20 billion improving aviation security since 9/11, it has spent $1 billion enhancing nuclear-plant security...
...their credit, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) interceded last week with a proposal to amend its regulations to ensure that it can properly enforce a law that prohibits “obtrusive” advertising in zero gravity. In a regulatory filing, the FAA said that, “Objects placed in orbit, if large enough, could be seen by people around the world for long periods of time...
...FAA does not currently have the authority to enforce the existing ban, but the creation of a fleet of X-Wings is rumored in the works...
...applaud the FAA for its early effort at preventing orbiting atrocities that would destroy sunsets and hinder the work of the world’s astronomers, but the measure is not without its shortcomings...