Kimberly Pierceall
FAA Wants to See your Cracked Fuselage
(Associated Press File Photo)
The Federal Aviation Administration appeared a little less regulatory and a lot more humbled recently when it was discovered that Southwest Airlines hadn't had about 50 of its planes undergo required FAA inspections for two years, largely because the FAA inspector assigned to Southwest didn't hold the airline to task.
The FAA fined Southwest $10.2 million, and Southwest looked a little closer at its maintenance records. As a result, last week they grounded about 40 planes and found a few that needed minor repairs near the cabin windows.
Now the FAA has ordered a review into every U.S. airline's maintenance records. Will it affect your favorite airline? Perhaps, if they've been flying older Boeing 737 jets. Also, the order doesn't mean other airlines will need to ground their planes too, potentially cancelling flights.
That will only occur if inspections hadn't been conducted before, as they should have.
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