The Federal Aviation Administration

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The Federal Aviation Administration The F.A.A. (Federal Aviation Administration), established in 1958, deals with the airspace problems, most of the problems they deal with are on the runways of airfields, but they do in fact deal with the other airspace problems as well, including extraterrestrial life. The F.A.A. seems to keep a lot of important information from the public. One main reason that they do this is to keep the public in a state of calmness, if the F.A.A. were to make all there discoveries public and all the information public, the world wouldn't be able to handle it. Runway incursions are the most frequently called upon case in the courts, most runway incursions are the control towers fault but pilot error is the second most called upon case in the courts. The F.A.A. looks at all these cases and determines whether or not the airline would have a chance in court, they also check every plane three times before take off, even after the airline has checked the plane out, if the F.A.A. finds any problem after the airline has said it was safe then the airline may be fined or their licence could be suspended. The F.A.A. regulates airspace but do they do it the right way, do they tell the truth or just their own version; find out in the following. The U.S. Federal agency, F.A.A. began around 1958 to regulate air commerce for the promotion of its safety and development. The agency, established as an independent authority with a civilian administrator, combined the Civil Aeronautics Administration, the Airways Modernization Board, and the Civil Aeronautics Board. It was made a division of the Transportation Department in 1967 when President Johnson started planning the PPB, which stands for the Programming and Budgeting System. This system began the process of the F.A.A., money was a problem in the beginning stages but once everything got started money wasn't a problem. Both the Commercial Airlines and General Aviation had begun growing rapidly. With the purchase of many new jet aircraft, airline assets grew from 3.8 billion to 11 billion between 1965 and 1970; the number of passengers they carried rose from 62 million to 150 million. In the same period the General Aviation fleet increased from seventy seven thousand to one hundred thirty one thousand and in 1970 these aircraft's were flown over 25 million hours. During the 1980's, several of the nations largest airlines became targets for Leveraged Buyouts (LBO's): Continental, Eastern, Frontier, People Express, TWA, Ozark, Northwest, United and American.

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