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...When Senators reviewed the report last March at a hearing of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the recommendations for enforcement action had been deleted. Also missing were critical comments about Continental's management, the company's strike problems and the shortage of personnel. Expunged were Langdon's criticisms of lax enforcement of regulations by Western Pacific regional officials of the FAA. Whole pages and key paragraphs had disappeared, but some words had been added. "Continental Airlines personnel and management remained cooperative" was changed to "Continental Airlines personnel and management were very cooperative...
...soon as I arrived at LAX, I phoned my great-uncle in Pasadena. "Uncle!" I cried. "In this time of national emergency, with the specter of another failed Presidency on the horizon, can I count on you to do your part as an American citizen...
...chief complaints by the taxi drivers focused on "police harassment," which they said includes excessively rigid enforcement of traffic laws, unwarranted parking tickets, insulting behavior, and comparatively lax enforcement of the cabs' right to stay in areas designated as taxi stands...
Discipline has been lax, signs of major problems have gone unheeded, and industrial managers have artificially inflated output targets and promised to finish projects ahead of time just to please political leaders, Oleinik said...
Despite the holiday weekend, the air traffic around LAX was not unusually heavy. The unidentified experienced controller covering Flight 498 had only ten radar transponder blips to track on his screen. "It was busy, but we weren't to the point of saturation," said Air Controller Karl Grundmann, another of the men on duty. Flight 498's controller told the pilot to descend from 7,000 ft. to 6,000. At 11:53, he issued a warning to the Aeromexico jet: "Traffic 10 o'clock (slightly to the airliner's left), one mile northbound, altitude unknown." Re- sponded 498: "Roger...