Posted on 07/28/2009 1:07:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Aircraft design standards aren't tough enough for planes to withstand collisions with growing numbers of large birds, safety investigators examining an Oklahoma crash that killed five men said Tuesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration requires the bodies of commercial aircraft to withstand a collision with a bird weighing 4 pounds or 8 pounds depending upon the section of the plane — standards that haven't been updated since the 1970s, investigators told the National Transportation Safety Board.
An FAA advisory committee spent 10 years examining whether the standards should be updated and then disbanded without reaching a conclusion, investigators said.
"I think that ridiculous," NTSB chairman Debbie Hersman said. "That's a tremendous waste of time and expertise." She said the agency needs to be "publishing rules and getting on with what's feasible."
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NTSB chairman Debbie Hersman said. "That's a tremendous waste of time and expertise."
How about all of the wasted taxpayer dollars.
Where is the accountability?
I would assume that an advisory committee must have at least 3 members. And an expert would expect to draw at least $70K per year. So that is 2.1 million dollars minimum down the rabbit hole.
If they did not come up with a recommendation in the first year they should have been canned.
Paint really mean looking hawk faces on the nose of airliners, with external loud speakers that make screeching hawk like sounds.
Almost grasping the obvious.
New wave of obesity strikes bird population, FedGov handouts blamed
or
Windmills fail to control bird population: Bird strike deaths to soar.
Maybe I can get a job wrting headlines at the World News Daily.....
So the rules for bird strikes haven’t been upgraded since the 70s.... so? Have birds somehow become more obese in the last 30 years?
Nope.. we just aren’t allowed to kill nuisance geese now like we were back then.
How the “canadian goose” aka crapulus maximus became a protected species is beyond me.
The Envirowackos want it this way. Don’t move the geese. You might upset them.
Why do I think this is an indirect reference to the ever-increasing out-of-control population of "Canadian" geese in the Northeast?
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