University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 30, 1988
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Bush says he will seek speedy Cabinet decision
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The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President-elect George Bush told Senate Republican leaders yesterday that he will seek speedy confirmation of his Cabinet, perhaps with hearings beginning even before he takes office on Jan. 20.
Bush also told the GOP senators he hopes any "honeymon period" with Congress can yield a federal budget compromise, according to participants in a private get-acquainted meeting at the Capitol.
Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., said the president-elect indicated he wanted to meet with "a bipartisan group to discuss his thoughts" before submitting a budget outline of his own.
However, Sen. Lloyd Benten, D-Texas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the 1988 Democratic vice presidential candidate, said Bush "should not be in the position of not sending any budget up."
"This will be his first test of leadership. He has to show what he believes in — national defense, Medicare, revenues." He has to speak to the principal points of the budget. That's part of the price of leadership." Bentsen said. "They just won an election. It's their call."
Republican senators said the vice president indicated during their meeting that he would take up the matter of early confirmations with the Senate's newly chosen majority leader, George Mitchell of Main
Bush called Mitchell to congratulate him shortly after yesterday's secret-ballot election among Senate Democrats.
Bush is to meet with Mitchell tomorrow, sandwiched between meetings today and tomorrow with Rev. Jesse Jackson and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, two Democrats who spent much of the year criticizing Republicans in general and Bush in particular.
Dukakis and Bush will talk at the vice president's residence Friday afternoon in their first meeting since the resignation in their role for the presidency three weeks ago.
Bush aide Steve Hart said the Jackson meeting was "in keeping with what George Bush has traditionally done, which is to be open and talk to people who are interested and conquered."
In 1891, the Senate, then controlled by the Republican, voted confirmation of key appointments of President Reagan's within hour of his inauguration. Democrats now have a majority, in the Senate.
"It would be important to his administration if he could have early action on confirmation, particularly with some of the key people like (James) Baker," Bush's choice for secretary of state, said Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss.
Cochran said that, if Democrats went along, confirmation hearings could be held on Bush's nominations before they are formally submitted.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration told airlines yesterday that it wanted an additional warning device in the cockpits of all U.S. commercial jetliners which would tell pilots whether the critical takeoff alarm system was working.
FAA wants warning device added
The Associated Press
The proposed directive, which is expected to go into effect early next year and give airlines another year to comply, would affect about 3,700 large commercial jets, according to the FAA.
Commercial jetliners have alarm systems that are supposed to warn pilots if the plane's critical control devices such as wing flaps are not in the proper position for a takeoff.
But in at least two recent crashes it was suspected that the alarms failed to sound because of a malfunction. A spot check earlier this year of Boeing 727 aircraft showed 35 cases in which the alarms either failed or did not
The FAA said in a proposed order yesterday that it wanted the airlines to install an additional warning light in cockpits of all large commercial jets, so that, in case of an emergency, to the takeoff warning system was disrupted.
operate properly, according to the FAA.
The modification, which likely would be made during a plane's routine maintenance so as not to interrupt normal service, would apply to aircraft manufactured by Boeing Co. McDonnell Douglas Corp., Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and Airbus Industries, the European consortium, as well as foreign manufacturers of smaller jets such as Fokker and British Aerospace.
"You're talking about the entire (U.S.) passenger fleet of large jet airplanes," Fred Farrar, FAA spokesman, said. Some aircraft but probably only a few — may already have the additional warning devices, which are expected to cost $1,050 an aircraft to install, he said.
Airlines have until February to comment on the proposal, after which the FAA is expected to issue a mandatory requirement, officials said. While the air carriers will have another year to comply, many probably will begin immediately to make the modification in some aircraft.
to make the environment safer. The alarm systems have been a focus of attention in two major airline crashes within the last 15 months.
Investigators also are examining the possibility of an improper flap setting in the crash of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 727 near Dallas last August.
last 15 months.
The crash on Aug. 16, 1987, of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 during a takeoff from Detroit's Metro International Airport was blamed on the failure of the flight crew to set the plane's wing flaps properly for takeoff, inhibiting its ability to gain lift. The crash of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 claimed 154 lives.
Pilot admits possibility of rule-bending
The Associated Press
IRVING, Texas — The pilot of a Delta Air Lines jetliner that crashed Aug. 31, killing 14 people, testified yesterday that some rules might have been bent in readying the Boeing 727 for takeoff but that preparations were adequate.
Ninetv-four people survived.
For instance, the Delta veteran of 23 years said he had used hand signals instead of calling out completion of each item on the prepaid card. He had made a takeoff briefing at the gate instead of on the runway.
Larry Davis admitted seeing deviations from the rules under questioning by aerospace engineer Jeff Gorney as the National Transportation Safety Board opened an inquiry into the crash on takeoff at Dallas International Airport.
"I like to get as much done as possible before we get into the position of getting rushed," said Davis.
off, despite an Federal Aviation Administration rule requiring a "sterile" cockpit once the plane has left the gate.
But he noted that the plane was "waiting in a line of traffic" and added: "I don't believe it was a critical phase of flight, but technically it was (in violation)."
Gorney also said a flight attendant was allowed into the cockpit when the jet was waiting to take
The FAA requires pilots to go through a checklist but does not specifically require averbal a "challenge and response" between pilots. The agency, however, has
made clear on many occasions that such an exchange is preferable.
According to NTSB documents,
Delta procedures Aug. 31 only
suggested a verbal exchange during
some phases of the checklist.
FAA recently chastised Delta for inadequate cockpit discipline and poor coordination and communications among pilots, and Delta has said that it will formalize the checklist process with increased emphasis on verbal challenges.
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