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Man Who Grounded Dreamliner Says FAA Should Ground 737, Too
The FAA is risking its reputation and public safety, says former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. He’s right.
“The flying public has to be assured that these planes are safe, and they don’t feel that way now.”
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It’s a daily miracle that the general public accepts the existence of the aviation industry.
Every day, around 100,000 flights take off and fly between towns and cities around the world, each carrying fuel with the stored energy of a cruise missile jammed up alongside scores of families, tourists, business-people and pets. That we tolerate and even welcome this state of affairs is a tribute to the generations of engineers and administrators — and regulators — who’ve made traveling by air safer than driving the car to the mall.