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...That would be a very interesting challenge," Dole said of the Inspector General job. "You could do some good. But be sure you know what you're getting into." I thought I knew what she meant; only later would I fully understand her warning...
...people died when an Avions de Transport regional plane, flown by American Eagle, crashed into a soybean field in Roselawn, Indiana. A design flaw made the French-Italian plane become violently uncontrollable in cold weather. Pilots and aeronautical engineers knew what the problem was: the de-icing boots on the ATR wings were not big enough. Those are the rubber sleeves on each wing that can be expanded to crack sheets of ice. But the FAA determined that lengthening the boot would cost too much money. It took three plane crashes, the third one scattering human remains and debris over...
...existed, I was told. No charts or graphs like that here, the FAA said. In fact, no such research had been done, no such conclusions reached. But I'd seen them, I argued; I'd held them in my hands! That didn't matter; suddenly none of the officials knew what I was talking about...
...would take the deaths of more than a hundred people aboard a ValuJet plane that burst into flames, smashed into the Florida Everglades and sank in a murky swamp to expose chronic weaknesses in the FAA. The 110 souls on that flight probably never knew what caused the fire that took their lives. At first, government investigators could not pinpoint the reason for the disaster, either. [It was later found that the fire was apparently caused by dangerous oxygen generators loaded into the cargo bay without being carefully handled according to regulations.] But the tragedy would expose what...
...administrator, David Hinson, echoed [Pena's] assurances. A former executive at Midway Airlines and McDonnell Douglas, Hinson had always seemed genuinely determined to streamline the FAA and address safety as well as commercial interests. Yet I knew he had to have seen the agency's own account of the differences among air carriers. Hinson had to realize that within a few days of the disaster, records had revealed that the crashed plane was a used DC-9, serial number 901VJ, that had been plagued with faulty equipment and emergency landings since January. Watching Transportation and FAA officials, I realized there...