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Author Schiavo, Mary, author

Title Flying blind, flying safe / Mary Schiavo with Sabra Chartrand
Edition First edition
Published New York, N.Y. : Avon, [1997]
New York, N.Y. : Avon, c1997
c1997
©1997

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 MELB  363.124560973 Sch/Fbf  AVAILABLE
Description x, 373 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: The ValuJet Tragedy -- Ch. 1. Who Does the FAA Work for, Anyway? Not You -- Ch. 2. The Plane Truth -- Ch. 3. The Tombstone Agency -- Ch. 4. Business As Usual -- Ch. 5. See No Evil: Bogus Parts -- Ch. 6. Cash Cows: Where Your Airport Money Went -- Ch. 7. Relative Truth: CULT-ure at the FAA -- Ch. 8. The Second Greatest Thrill -- Ch. 9. Who Watches the Manufacturers? -- Ch. 10. TWA Flight 800 -- Ch. 11. There's No Such Thing As "Safety" at the FAA -- Ch. 12. Airplanes -- Ch. 13. Airlines -- Ch. 14. Airports -- Ch. 15. Straighten Up and Fly Right -- Ch. 16. Flying Healthy -- Ch. 17. Weather -- Ch. 18. When You Have to Fight -- Ch. 19. Silencing the Watchdog -- Epilogue: If We Really Want Change... -- Epilogue: Help Yourself.̃
Summary Air travel safety. US origin
Analysis Airlines
Aviation accidents
Federal Aviation Administration (US)
Government agencies
Management
Overseas item
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (358-373)
Subject United States. Federal Aviation Administration -- Management.
Aeronautics -- United States -- Safety measures.
Aeronautics, Commercial -- Government policy -- United States.
Air travel -- United States.
Author Chartrand, Sabra.
LC no. 97140276
ISBN 0380975327