Word: sayen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Collision Course. The spreading sickness has brought on a showdown in the bitter feud between Clarence N. Sayen, boss of the gold-plated Air Line Pilots Association and Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood ("Pete") Quesada (TIME, June 20). What sparked the showdown is a dispute over where the FAA inspectors sit in the new jetliners. Quesada says they must have the forward observer's seat (across from the flight engineer's seat) so that they can see if the pilot is obeying FAA rules. But Sayen maintains that that seat is reserved for the third pilot, issued...
...Strategy: Harassment. Sayen's strategy is to keep the airlines in turmoil until the public becomes angry and starts to blame Pete Quesada. Sayen figures that the public will side with the pilots rather than a Government agency. The trouble with this reasoning is that 1) the pilots lost much public support by their strike at Christmas against American, the nation's biggest airline (TIME, Jan. 5, 1959), and 2) Quesada is only bearing down on the pilots to eliminate carelessness, make flying safer. Sayen has also laid down this week a strike deadline against National Airlines...
...clip Quesada's power, Sayen has persuaded California Democratic Senator Clair Engle and Mississippi Democratic Representative John Bell Williams to introduce identical bills in the Senate and House. They would give the Civil Aeronautics Board the right to review all the FAA rulings, in effect making the FAA as slow and cumbersome as the CAB. The bills also call for public hearings before the FAA can suspend a pilot's license. Cries Sayen: "The law which concentrates such power in one man that he can, by hastily conceived, dictatorial, unnecessary and arbitrary actions, provoke such chaos while attempting...
Behind all the flimsy excuses is the fight of President Clarence N. Sayen of the Air Line Pilots Association against Federal Aviation Agency Boss Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Ever since Quesada took over the agency last year, he has cracked down on sloppy flying, particularly in jets, told his inspectors in planes to keep a sharp eye out for violators. A.L.P.A. President Clarence Sayen fought back, accused FAA inspectors of endangering lives through "petty, ridiculous harassment of flight crews." He even tried to have FAA funds earmarked for inspector training shifted to other uses. Says he: "It is a foolish waste...
...action would almost certainly lead to a crackup. Making his decision in an instant, the National pilot kept going, lifted the plane off the ground, circled around and landed safely. Still, an accompanying FAA flight inspector filed a complaint against the pilot for rule-book infringement. Though A.L.P.A. Boss Sayen hammered away at FAA's rigid judgment, Quesada had the last word: investigation showed that the pilot had failed to safety-catch a fuel-flow lever; it had slipped out of position to cut off the fuel to one engine on takeoff. The FAA rules on fuel-flow levers...