Monday, July 03, 2006
Gov't at Work - Crash flaw unfixed
Our government in action (OOPS!, I meant "inaction")...
Brian Kates reports in the NY Daily News:
"Nearly a decade after TWA Flight 800 went down off Long Island, killing all 230 people on board, the chief of the National Transportation Safety Board yesterday said industrywide fuel tank problems that caused the crash are 'largely unchanged.'
Acting NTSB Chairman Mark Rosenker slammed the Federal Aviation Administration for 'moving much too slowly' to require explosion-prevention 'inerting' devices that have been on the board's Most Wanted list since shortly after the July 17, 1996, tragedy.
'Ten years after the TWA accident, fuel tank inerting systems are not in place in our airliners, and flammability exposure is largely unchanged,' Rosenker said, referring to devices that pump nitrogen into partially filled fuel tanks to reduce oxygen that can cause explosions.'"
