Word: lauber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yesterday afternoon, workers were recovering bodies and beginning to map the location of each large piece of the wreckage of Flight 255, said John Lauber, an NTSB board member...
...respected National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates civil aviation accidents. The number of hours the average airline pilot has spent in jetliners has dropped from 2,234 in 1983 to 818 in 1985. "The demand for pilots is high, and the supply is going down," observes NTSB member John Lauber. "The carriers are getting closer to the FAA minimum training standards...
...Pacific Southwest. Tony Levier, an industry-safety expert, is in agreement. "A lot of these airlines are operating on shoestrings. They may meet the FAA regulations on paper but not in reality." On some commuter flights, both cockpit seats may be occupied by inexperienced officers. That, too, observes John Lauber of NTSB, "can be a lethal combination...
...morning. In other research, Moore-Ede discovered an incident in which a transcontinental flight missed its Los Angeles destination and flew 100 miles over the Pacific because everyone up front had fallen asleep. Controllers awakened them by sounding chimes in the cockpit. NTSB's Lauber confirms that napping occurs and suggests that the problem could be eased if regulations banning all sleeping could be relaxed to permit snoozing by one officer at a time during a high-altitude flight...
...investigators speculated that Kramer had made two critical mistakes: he had not sought permission by radio to enter the restricted area; and although his radar transponder was on, as required, it was not equipped to transmit the mandatory altitude information. John Lauber, heading the investigation for the National Transportation Safety Board, reported that the controller said he did not recall seeing the Piper's blip. Even if he had seen it, said Lauber, "if he doesn't have altitude information, then it's a reasonable assumption for him that the aircraft is not operating in the terminal control area...