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...that every bag is checked for bombs. On U.S. domestic flights, carry-on is X-rayed, but checked luggage generally is not. The industry has resisted mandatory checks, arguing that there is a shortage of machines, the checks are too slow, and they register too many false positives. The FAA planned to phase in a check-all-bags requirement starting in 2009, but after the Sept. 11 attacks, it said it might move that...
...airlines do so-called positive bag matches, which are already common overseas. That means airlines will have to match every bag on a flight with a passenger, to ensure that no one can place a bag with a bomb on a plane and then fail to board it. The FAA move will be over the objection of U.S. airlines, which have argued that such bag matching is impractical in a system that handles 1.4 billion bags a year, and of dubious value in an age of suicide bombers...
...plane on a piece of foil that scrolled past. They were really only capable of recording basics like altitude. It wasn't until we got into the digital flight data recorders (in the 1960s) that we started gathering more sophisticated data. And one of the side effects of the FAA mandating modern flight data recorders is that some airlines use their FDR data to improve airplane performance...
...Although the FAA says it has no evidence that the crash was a terrorist attack, New York city went into lockdown mode immediately following the disaster, declaring a "Level 1" alert, shuttering all three city airports, and closing down traffic on bridges and tunnels entering the city. The Bush Administration said it briefly considered shutting down all airports, but ultimately rejected the idea because it felt there was no credible threat to other flights...
...FAA this spring began requiring operators to replace the engine shrouds on the engines. That action followed one in September, 2000, when the FAA issued an emergency directive to shorten inspection intervals for the CF6. The order had been prompted by a troubling incident two months earlier. A Varig Airlines 767 had to abort a takeoff after one of its CF6 engines had what is called an 'uncontained' failure, in which the engine partially disintegrated and metal flew out of the engine's casing. According to reports, there have been 61 uncontained low-pressure turbine failures with CF6 engines since...