NATION/WORLD
Wednesday, November 16, 1994
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Board suggests strict commuter airline rules
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board recommended yesterday that the strict rules governing major airlines be extended to smaller commuter carriers, whose safety record has caused concern in recent years.
The recommendations, following a nine-month investigation of commuter airline safety, go to the Federal Aviation Administration for action.
Regional airlines feeding passengers to major carriers — and often operating under the colors of those carriers—have proliferated in recent years. Several crashes, including in Hibbing, Minn., Columbus, Ohio, and
most recently in northern Indiana, have focused attention on that segment of the industry.
Current rules impose tougher standards on planes with 31 seats or more. The safety board recommended extending those rules to planes with 20 seats or more, and those of 10 to 19 seats "wherever possible."
The changes would tighten safety inspections of aircraft, reduce the number of hours pilots can fly and require dispatchers to assist crew in ground duties.
The safety board also called for improved training for FAAS inspectors, suggested that flight simulators be required for pilot training and
urged major airlines to take a hand in improving the safety of commuter operators that fly under their name plates.
FAA Administrator David R. Hinson said his agency is also developing a proposal to require that pilots of computer planes receive the same training as those in the larger craft.
Ground proximity warning systems have recently been required for the smaller planes, and new collision avoidance systems must be installed by next February, said Greg Feith of the safety board staff.
The safety board also recommended that a separate safety official be appointed for each airline.
Airborne toilet paper bomber suspected of being drunk
The Associated Press
INDEPENDENCE — The ammunition was squeezably soft, but authorities weren't laughing after a pilot buzzed downtown rooftops and dropped several rolls of toilet paper from his plane.
The pilot, a 37-year-old independence man, was arrested when he landed his plane around 2:30 a.m. yesterday. He was being held in the county jail on $100,000 bond on suspicion of flying an airplane while under the influence and littering.
Montgomery County Sheriff Jack Daniels said the pilot, who hadn't been formally charged by late yesterday afternoon, was drinking with friends when he bragged he could hit Main Street from his plane with a roll of toilet paper.
He purchased a generic four-pack
of toilet paper at a convenience store and then swooped over town, dropping several rolls, Daniels said.
Residents who heard and saw the airplane called authorities. One witness said the pilot nearly hit a 500-foot cable television tower.
Authorities said the man is a pipeline pilot pilot for Pipeline Services Corp. of Dallas and was flying a rented, single-engine Piper.
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