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...flight. In 1991 a thrust reverser on a Lauda Air Boeing 767 deployed in midair, sending the plane into a death plunge over Thailand. That jet was No. 283 on Boeing's assembly line. EgyptAir Flight 990 was jet No. 282. In the two months before the crash, the FAA took steps to require airlines to make two fixes in the thrust reversers used on 767 engines, including one to prevent the accidental deployment of a disabled reverser. One of Flight 990's thrust reversers had been deactivated just before the fatal flight...
...enough to justify the expenditure. For most people,"on-demand aircraft charter" is far cheaper than fractional ownership, especially if they fly fewer than 20 times a year. Aircraft charter varies in cost from $40 to $400 a seat per hour. Charter operators and pilots must meet more stringent FAA safety standards than fractionals--and usually an on-demand charter can be arranged in much less time. JAMES K. COYNE, PRESIDENT National Air Transportation Association Alexandria...
...their plane is late or their flight is canceled," she says. "But the big problem is that one in four planes is late. Fix that, and you don?t need the cosmetics." Fixing that, however, means both costly overhauls for the airlines and slow-in-arriving upgrades of outdated FAA equipment. "Until then," she adds, "the airlines can hand out all the lollipops they want. But people are still waiting. Planes are still overbooked." United did promise to fill one need that ranked high in passenger-satisfaction requests: instituting a toll-free line for customer complaints. Let's hope...
...first climbed into the sky did not disperse, largely obscuring the fingernail paring of a moon that was out that evening. Stars were probably erased completely. Up and down the New England coast, other pilots began flying into the same soup. A number of them radioed the FAA for permission to land at alternative, inland airports, where visibility was better. But Kennedy, who never made radio contact throughout the trip, pressed on. Below his right wing, he may have seen the eastern tip of Long Island slipping past...
DIED. DONALD ENGEN, 75, head of the National Air and Space Museum and a much decorated Navy pilot; when the glider in which he was a passenger crashed near Minden, Nev., while he was on vacation with his wife. A gliding enthusiast who headed the FAA in the 1980s, Engen oversaw the exhibition of such gems as the Spirit of St. Louis, which Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic...