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...White House, with Lincoln Beachey perched at the controls. Beachey, then considered the best pilot in America, buzzed the White House again and again and flew stunts around the Washington Monument, to the awe of Wilson. Today the airspace above the White House is designated P-56 by the FAA--the P standing for "prohibited area"--and it is rigidly policed by air-traffic controllers...
Inside the center, it was even worse. "The whole world fell apart," said an FAA employee on duty. First, the system started rebooting, distorting the critical information the radars displayed. When no quick fix could be found, the controllers who direct the almost 7,000 flights a day that flow through the airspace were switched to the emergency system. Some of them were not up to speed on that version, though, and they became confused and started yelling, "The backup system isn't working!" The problem was caused by what an agency spokesman called a glitch in the software--installed...
Sources tell TIME, however, that even the FAA's technical specialists have doubts about the new software. They are concerned that the system has not been adequately tested and say there have been problems with it more than half the time in the 17 centers across the country where it is in use. The morning after the failure at the Los Angeles center, FAA techies warned employees that the center in Albuquerque was vulnerable to a similar software anomaly and that the installation at the Miami facility would be postponed...
...Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) too must work harder to find a way to update an aging air traffic control system. The delays that have plagued the system this summer are nothing more than a result of the success of deregulation. The more planes and companies in service, the more congested the skies. Finding a way to handle this traffic will be essential to the long-run health of the system...
...Boeing 747 to explode. But beyond that general consensus, nobody knows exactly why. Except, of course, the rabble-rousers: Federal investigators, who've spent much of the last four years up to their elbows in this convoluted case, bristle at conspiracy theorists' continued accusations that the NTSB and FAA are covering up the true cause of the crash. Early speculation that terrorist action brought the plane down was quickly discounted, but several passengers' family members and a few enthusiastic intrigue-seekers have clung to the idea that Boeing is hiding the truth about the 747's safety records...