Word: ntsb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious charge against Butterfield is that the FAA has been slow to respond to the recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent agency that has the responsibility in the federal hierarchy of promoting safety in all modes of transportation. The NTSB has also taken over the job of investigating aircraft accidents from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...Explanation. Executives at McDonnell Douglas, however, talked the FAA out of issuing the directive. Instead, the company was permitted to send out its own "service bulletin" recommending some less fundamental changes than the NTSB wanted. McDonnell Douglas was supposed to modify the doors of planes still on its assembly line, as the ill-fated Turkish Airlines DC-10 then was. Three inspectors signed records indicating that the modification was made on that plane-but Douglas Division President John Brizendine conceded last week that it was not. Why not? "We do not yet have an explanation," he said...
Raising Pilots. One of NTSB's first recommendations may well be to raise minimum pilot qualifications. At present, air-taxi pilots can operate with only a commercial pilot's rating, which requires 200 hours of flying time. Pilots for the first-level trunk carriers need an air-transport rating, which requires a minimum of 1,200 hours. Some of the larger third-levels, like Philadelphia's eight-plane Altair, demand that their pilots have trunk-style experience. But the smaller third-levels, many of them Mom-and-Pop outfits with one or two single-engine planes, generally...