"The FAA is providing new, and possibly damaging information
about the safety of these rudders and the NTSB owes it to the many
families of the victims of the crash and to the traveling public to
find out whether traveling on these planes is dangerous."
Source: investigation into the November, 2001
crash of AAL 587. Schumer's demand came after the rudder separated
from an Air Transat Airbus A310 -- an aircraft similar to the
American Airlines jetliner that went down in Queens. After the
March 6th Air Transat incident, the FAA ordered the rudders
inspectd on all A300s and A310s flying in the US.
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