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The FAA - Online Term Paper

The FAA

has hindered the development of airline safety because of
its policy of safety, its regulation of the airline industry, and it needs
to be separate from the Department of Transportation.
has hindered the development of airline safety because of
its policy of safety. Part of its policy is the cost-benefit rule, which
was an executive order issued by President Ronald Reagan in February 1981.
This rule stated that the FAA could issue new rules only if they could show
the potential economic benefits outweighed the likely costs. (Calonius,
91) This rule made it hard to justify any significant advance in safety on
older airplanes because the costs may not be able to be recovered by the
end ...

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industry either.
In August 1990 the FAA issued a rule that required airlines to install
fire-resistant cabins into new planes. The materials were also supposed to
be installed into the cabins of in-service planes that required a “
significant” amount of the cabin replaced. The FAA failed to define what a
substantial amount of the cabin was. The airlines also weren't required to
report the materials that were installed. This problem was not corrected
until 1991, after Pan Am flight 811 had an electrical fire in the cabin.
Three people received severe burns, while many others
inhaled smoke and poisonous gases. The amount of smoke and gases could
have been reduced if the proper cabin materials had been installed. (Oster,
245-46) This rule was changed soon afterward to remove the loopholes.
Another part of the FAA's safety policy that has hindered airline
safety is the way it enforces the safety rules. The FAA uses investigators
to enforce its safety rules. These ...

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Added: 6/27/2008 06:55:47 PM
Category: Government
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