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Slam and Jam
The Atlantic Monthly reports on the nation's air-traffic-control system. "For all the reports of equipment failures and "close calls" and controller burnout, the nation's air-traffic control system is in fact far less precarious, in terms of safety, than people imagine it to be. The real threat to the system's integrity has as yet received little attention.... Renegade slowdowns deliver a clear threat within the agency, yet a threat so technical that it remains invisible to the outside world." The story finds that "many of the public concerns about air-traffic control -- that the equipment is dangerously old, that safety is compromised, that poorly monitored aircraft threaten to collide in midair -- are largely unwarranted."
Tags: Newark International Airport; LaGuardia; JFK; aviation; Lufthansa; United Airlines; Continental; hubs; FAA; unions
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Airport Security
CBS reporters, led by a former Federal Aviation Administration security team employee, test eight major airports -- JFK, LaGuardia, Baltimore, Reagan National, Atlanta, St. Louis, Ft. Lauderdale and Los Angeles -- for security flaws. They enter through checkpoints with lead-lined film bags where weapons could be hidden invisible to the X-ray machines. The result is the same both six months after Sept. 11 and a year after Sept. 11: In 70 percent of the cases the security personnel fails to open the lead-lined bags.
Tags: terrorism; safety; bombs; 9/11; whistleblowing; airlines; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Flier Beware
Robert Kolker investigates La Guardia Airport, where there's always potential for airplane collisions. Kolker discovers that since January 1998, there have been six near-misses -- planes have come within hundreds of feet each other as they've perpared for landing.
Tags: New York Magazine; Robert Kolker; La Guardia Airport; airlines; crashes; FAA; danger; safety; collisions; planes
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How the Government Turned La Guardia Into a Flyer's Nightmare
The Journal reports that La Guardia airport in New York has become the unlucky exemplar of air-traffic gridlock because of efforts by Congress and the Clinton administration to improve air service. The paper tells us how the FAA is trying to remedy the situation by forcing airlines to slash many flights.
Tags: flight; New York airport; air traffic; La Guardia; airlines; FAA