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Regional Airline Summit Yields Action Plan

Steve Scott

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

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The nation's top-level federal aviation safety regulators have taken immediate steps to monitor the regional airline industry's pilot training and reduce the threat of fatigue on the flight deck. The voluntary measures emerged from the June 15 "call to action" meeting between Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials and 50 representatives from the major air carriers, their regional partners, aviation industry groups and labor. The one-day safety summit was called to address pilot training, cockpit discipline, fatigue and other flight safety…

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