sees the qualifications of other pilots falsified information about the experience of an unspecified number of them. -- Failure to examine seven planes transponders, which sends out altitude and directional information to traffic controllers, after the planes receive major overhauls. -- Improperly trained workers renovated an unspecified number of cabins to make way for larger business- class seats and modify the passengers emergency oxygen system (Associated Press 12). United in Sioux City, US Air in Pittsburgh, ValueJet in the Everglades -- none of those accidents should have occurred if the FAA had its priorities straight, said Gail Dunham, president of the National Air Disaster Alliance & Foundation. FAA aims to reduce the number of fatal accidents by 80 % over the next ten years. Beginning in June there will be a more thorough FAA inspection of jet engines. Aircraft inspections and the installation of enhanced ground warning system which alert pilots they are about to crash into the ground, mountains or sea are the required safety features for airplanes. Four thousand three hundred aircraft have already started installing the terrain-avoidance warning system (Hilkovitch 4). Improvements that are being made now should make travelers a litter safer in the air. The many deaths of fatal accidents are mostly caused by the dishonest FAA inspectors. These statistics will go down because the problems will be solved and more improvements will be made so there are fewer fatal air crashes. Confidently the FAA is now heading in a more positive direction....
