Southwest is flying 38 jets that lack final safety verification
Southwest Airlines currently flies more than 3 dozen jets without being able to verify they comply with all mandatory federal safety standards, according to govt documents that also reveal US regulators recently considered grounding the planes. Congressional investigators and the US DoT’s inspector general’s office are stepping up scrutiny of such issues involving operation of used foreign aircraft Southwest introduced into its fleet over the years, according to the documents and people familiar with the details. In letters to the FAA over the past 2 weeks, the carrier indicated it previously found dozens of problematic repairs on other planes, done before it bought those aircraft. The problems included substandard or improper fixes. <br/>
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Southwest is flying 38 jets that lack final safety verification
Southwest Airlines currently flies more than 3 dozen jets without being able to verify they comply with all mandatory federal safety standards, according to govt documents that also reveal US regulators recently considered grounding the planes. Congressional investigators and the US DoT’s inspector general’s office are stepping up scrutiny of such issues involving operation of used foreign aircraft Southwest introduced into its fleet over the years, according to the documents and people familiar with the details. In letters to the FAA over the past 2 weeks, the carrier indicated it previously found dozens of problematic repairs on other planes, done before it bought those aircraft. The problems included substandard or improper fixes. <br/>
