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...American public was lucky to have an Inspector General like Schiavo, who knew her job and cared about what she was doing. The FAA should have a watchdog with teeth. JOAN HEDENKLINT Lidingo, Sweden...
Move over N.R.A.! The FAA poses a greater threat to the lives of Americans. GORDON TUBB London, Ontario...
...operates with the concept of "an acceptable level of accidents,'' typical cost-vs.-benefit thinking. Technical maintenance and pilot training are not only important safety items, they are also very expensive. There is a big difference between the minimum standards employed and the highest standards reasonably achievable. When the FAA watchdogs are not watching, guess which the public is offered? KNUT ANFINDSEN, Retired Flight Captain Stabekk, Norway...
After reading about the ancient computers and costly inefficiency of the IRS, I had to check the date of your story to make sure I wasn't reading your earlier article about the FAA. I am not sure which makes me angrier: the waste of my tax dollars on worthless fixes or a system that allows cheats to get away with tax scams. We must urge Congress to allot the IRS enough money to achieve the efficiency that is our right. The public will pay one way or another, and I prefer to get a system that will take...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Three commercial pilots who reported seeing at least one missile in the air while flying over the same New York airspace where TWA Flight 800 exploded have the FAA on rumor control all over again. Pilots of Northwest, Delta, and USAirways flights heading westward over New York City toward Philadelphia on March 21 all reported what they though were possible missile sightings. What the pilots may have seen were two D-5 Trident missiles fired at that time by the submarine USS West Virginia off the coast of Florida, says the FAA. Because the night was very clear...