The FAA has proposed fining Alaska $ 44, 000 and recommended that three supervisors in Oakland have their mechanic's licenses revoked, saying the airline operated two planes in an " unairworthy " manner.
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"Defendants knew or should have known from the maintenance history of the aircraft that it was unairworthy and unsafe by reason of a dangerously defective cabin pressure system, " the 11-page lawsuit said.
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The agency proposed fining Alaska $ 44, 000 last year and recommended that three supervisors in Oakland have their mechanic's licenses revoked, saying the airline operated two planes in an " unairworthy " manner.
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"Defendants knew or should have known from the maintenance history of the aircraft that it was unairworthy and unsafe by reason of a dangerously defective cabin-pressure system, " the 11-page lawsuit said.
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The philosophy behind MEL is to authorize release of flight with inoperative equipment only when the inoperative equipment does not render the aircraft unairworthy for the particular flight to avoid revenue loss to the operator and discomfort to the passengers.
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Flight attendant Nancy Chagares says when she heard that a ValuJet plane, just deemed unairworthy by a pilot, had taken off with a new crew and passengers, she didn't hesitate to report it to her supervisors.
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Zendehnam alleges, without offering specifics, that Alaska falsified maintenance records that let unairworthy planes to be returned to service _ allegations that have been the subject of a grand jury investigation in San Francisco for at least 16 months.
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A Federal Aviation Administration report concluded that records were falsified on two MD-80s that made 840 flights in late 1998 and early 1999 . Because of the altered records, the aircraft were considered " unairworthy,"
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A Federal Aviation Administration report concluded that records were falsified on two MD-80s that made 840 flights in late 1998 and early 1999 . Because of the altered records, the aircraft were considered " unairworthy, " FAA documents said.
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Eventually, it would be discovered that the airline often flew aircraft that were unairworthy, and that Transport Canada knew this, but did nothing about it, " losing " a Safety Review that cast the airline in a negative light.
