Issued: 31-MAY-1996 | To: FAA | A-96-25 |
IMMEDIATELY EVALUTE THE PRACTICES OF & TRAINING PROVIDED BY ALL AIR CARRIERS FOR ACCEPTING PASSENGER BAGGAGE & FREIGHT SHIPMENTS (INCLUDING COMPANY MATERIALS) & FOR IDENTIFYING UNDECLARED OR UNAUTHORIZED HAZARDOUS MATERIALS THAT ARE OFFERED FOR TRANSPORT. THIS EVALUATION SHOULD APPLY TO ANY PERSON, INCLUDING RAMP PERSONNEL, WHO ACCEPTS BAGGAGE OR CARGO FOR TRANSPORT ON PASSENGER & CARGO AIRCRAFT. (Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action) |
Issued: 31-MAY-1996 | To: FAA | A-96-26 |
REQUIRE ALL AIR CARRIERS, BASED ON THE EVALUATION PERFORMED UNDER A-96-25, TO REVISE AS NECESSARY THEIR PRACTICES AND TRAINING FOR ACCEPTING PASSENGER BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT SHIPMENTS AND FOR IDENTIFYING UNDECLARED OR UNAUTHORIZED HAZARDOUS MATERIALS THAT ARE OFFERED FOR TRANSPORT. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 31-MAY-1996 | To: FAA | A-96-27 |
IN COOPERATION WITH RSPA, PERMANENTLY PROHIBIT THE TRANSPORTATION OF CHEMICAL OXYGEN GENERATORS AS CARGO ON BOARD ANY PASSENGER OR CARGO AIRCRAFT WHEN THE GENERATORS HAVE PASSED EXPIRATION DATES, & THE CHEMICAL CORE HAS NOT BEEN DEPLETED. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 31-MAY-1996 | To: FAA | A-96-28 |
IN COOPERATION WITH RSPA, PROHIBIT THE TRANSPORTATION OF OXIDIZERS MATERIALS (E.G., NITRIC ACID) IN CARGO COMPARTMENTS THAT DO NOT HAVE FIRE OR SMOKE DETECTION SYSTEMS. (Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action) |
Issued: 31-MAY-1996 | To: RSPA | A-96-29 |
IN COOPERATION WITH THE FAA, PERMANENTLY PROHIBIT TRANSPORTATION OF CHEMICAL OXYGEN GENERATORS AS CARGO ON BOARD ANY PASSENGER OR CARGO AIRCRAFT WHEN THE GENERATORS HAVE PASSED EXPIRATION DATES, & CHEMICAL CORE HAS NOT BEEN DEPLETED. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 31-MAY-1996 | To: RSPA | A-96-30 |
IN COOPERATION WITH FAA, PROHIBIT THE TRANSPORTATION OF OXIDIZERS & OXIDIZING MATERIALS ( E.G., NITIRC ACID) IN CARGO COMPARTMENTS THAT DO NOT HAVE FIRE OR SMOKE DETECTION SYSTEMS. (Closed--No Longer Applicable) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-56 |
Expedite final rulemaking to require smoke detection and fire suppression systems for all class D cargo compartments. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-57 |
Specify, in air carrier operations master minimum equipment lists, that the cockpit-cabin portion of the service interphone system is require to be operating before an airplane can be dispatched. (Closed - Unacceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-58 |
Issue guidance to air carrier pilots about the need to don oxygen masks and smoke goggles at the first indication of a possible in-flight smoke or fire emergency. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-59 |
Establish performance standard for the rapid donning of smoke goggles; then ensure that all air carriers met this standard through improved smoke goggle equipment, improved flightcrew training, or both. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-60 |
Require that the smoke goggle currently approved for use by the flightcrews of transport-category aircraft be packaged in such a way that they can be easily opened by the flightcrew. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-61 |
Evaluate the cockpit emergency vision technology & take action as appropriate. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-62 |
Evaluate and support appropriate research, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration research program, to develop technologies and methods for enhancing passenger respiratory protection from toxic atmospheres that result from in-flight and post-crash fires involving transport-category airplanes. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-63 |
Evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of the Douglas DC-9 procedures involving the partial opening of cabin doors and similar procedures adopted by some operators of other transport-category airplanes for evacuating cabin smoke or fumes and, based on that evaluation, determine whether these or other procedures should be included in all manufacturers\' airplane flight manuals and air carrier operating manuals. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-64 |
Require airplane manufacturers to amend company maintenance manuals for airplanes that use chemical oxygen generators to indicate that generators that have exceeded their service life should not be transported unless they have been actuated and their oxidizer core has been depleted. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-65 |
Require that routine work cards used during maintenance of Part 121 aircraft (a) provide, for those work cards that call for the removal of any component containing hazardous materials, instructions, for disposal of the hazardous materials or a direct reference to the maintenance manual provision containing those instructions and (b) include an inspector\'s signature block on any work card that calls for handling a component containing hazardous materials. (Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-66 |
Require manufactures to affix a warning label to chemical oxygen generators to effectively communicate the dangers posed by unexpended generators and to communicate that unexpended generators are hazardous materials; then require that aircraft manufacturers instruct all operators of aircraft using chemical oxygen generators of the need to verify the presence of (or affix) such labels on chemical oxygen generators currently in their possession. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-67 |
Require all air carriers to develop and implement programs to ensure that aircraft components that are hazardous (other than chemical oxygen generators) are properly identified and that effective procedures are established to safely handle those components after they are removed from aircraft. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-68 |
Evaluate and enhance its oversight techniques to more effectively identify and address improper maintenance activities, especially false entries. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-69 |
Review the adequacy of current industry practice and if warranted, require that Part 121 air carriers and Part 145 repair facilities performing maintenance for air carriers develop and implement a system requiring items delivered to shipping and receiving and stores areas of the facility to be properly identified and classified as hazardous or non-hazardous, and procedures for tracking the handling and disposition of hazardous materials. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-70 |
Include, in its development and approval of air carrier maintenance procedures and programs, explicit consideration of human factors issues, including training, procedure development, redundancy, supervision, and the work environment, to improve the performance of personnel and their adherence to procedures. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-71 |
Review the issue of personnel fatigue in aviation maintenance; then establish duty time limitations consistent with the current state of scientific knowledge for personnel who perform maintenance on air carrier aircraft. (Open - Unacceptable Response) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-72 |
Issue guidance to air carriers on procedures for transporting hazardous aircraft components consistent with RSPA requirement for the transportation of air carrier company materials; then require principal operations inspectors to review and amend, as necessary, air carrier manuals to ensure that air carrier procedures are consistent with this guidance. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-73 |
Require air carriers to ensure that maintenance facility personnel, including mechanics, shipping, receiving, and stores personnel, at air carrier-operated or subcontractor facilities, are provided initial and recurrent training in hazardous materials recognition, and proper labeling packaging, and shipment procedures with respect to the specific items of hazardous materials that are handled by the air carrier\'s maintenance functions. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-74 |
Ensure that Part 121 air carriers\' maintenance functions receive the same level of FAA surveillance, regardless of whether those functions are performed in house or by a contract maintenance facility. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-75 |
Review the volume and nature of the work requirements of principal maintenance inspectors assigned to part 145 repair stations that perform maintenance for part 121 air carriers, and ensure that these inspectors have adequate time and resources to perform surveillance. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-76 |
Develop, in cooperation with the U.S. Postal Service and the Air Transport Association, programs to educate passengers, shippers and postal customers about the dangers of transporting undeclared hazardous materials aboard aircraft and about the need to properly identify and package hazardous materials before offering them for air cargo, and mail offered by U.S. Postal Service customers. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: FAA | A-97-77 |
Instruct principal operations inspectors to review their air carriers\' procedures for manifesting passengers, including lap children, and ensure that those procedures result in a retrievable record of each passenger\'s name. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: RSPA | A-97-78 |
DEVELOP RECORDS FOR ALL APPROVALS PREVIOUSLY ISSUED BY THE BUREAU OF EXPLOSIVES & TRANSFERRED TO THE RSPA & ENSURE ALL RECORDS, INCLUDING DESIGNS, TESTING, & PACKAGING REQUIREMENTS ARE AVAILABLE TO INSPECTORS TO HELP THEM DETERMINE THAT PRODUCTS TRANSPORTED UNDER THOSE APPROVALS CAN BE DONE SAFELY & IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF ITS APPROVAL. (Closed - Acceptable Alternate Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | A-97-79 |
DEVELOP, IN COOPERATION WITH FAA & THE AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION, PROGRAMS TO EDUCATE PASSENGERS, SHIPPERS & POSTAL CUSTOMER ABOUT THE DANGERS OF TRANSPORTING UNDERCLARED HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ABOARD AIRCRAFT & ABOUT THE NEED TO PROPERLY IDENTIFY & PACKAGE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS BEFORE OFFERING THEM FOR AIR TRANSPORTATION. THE PROGRAMS SHOULD FOCUS ON PASSENGER BAGGAGE, AIR CARGO, & MAIL OFFERED BY U.S. POSTAL SERVICE CUSTOMERS. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | A-97-80 |
DEVELOP A PROGRAM FOR U.S. POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEES TO HELP THEM IDENTIFY UNDECLARED HAZARDOUS MATERIALS BEING OFFERED FOR TRANSPORTATION. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: U.S. POSTAL SERVICE | A-97-81 |
CONTINUE TO SEEK CIVIL ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY WHEN UNDECLARED HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SHIPMENTS ARE IDENTIFIED IN TRANSPORTATION. (Closed - Acceptable Action) |
Issued: 09-SEP-1997 | To: Air Transport Association | A-97-82 |
Develop, in cooperation with the FAA and U.S. Postal Service, programs to educate passengers, shippers and postal customers about the dangers of transporting undeclared hazardous materials aboard aircraft and about the need to properly identify and package hazardous materials before offering them for air transportation. The programs should focus on passenger baggage, air cargo, and mail offered by U.S. Postal Service customers. (Closed - Unacceptable Action) |