Controversy Over Curious FAA Omission Of Cargo Operations From
Crew Rest Regs Grows
The latest in a series of aviation related petitions to the
White House asks that the FAA reconsider its recent announcement of
new crew rest regulations for commercial operations... regs that
surprisingly and inexplicably omitted cargo operations.
The petition, entitled, "Direct the FAA to mandate all-cargo
airlines comply with newly established Flightcrew Member Duty and
Rest Requirements" notes that, "On Dec. 21, the FAA released new
requirements for airlines to mitigate flight crew fatigue, which is
a factor in many aviation accidents. However, the FAA elected to
exempt all-cargo airlines such as UPS, FedEx, and Atlas because
they feel like it's okay for a cargo planes to crash more
frequently. The FAA attaches a value of $6.2 Million to each human
life, and have ruled that the cost to these corporations to include
them in the new rules have exceeded $6.2M per life they expect to
save. As cold as that sounds, FAA's logic is flawed and a good read
of their regulatory impact analysis shows costs have been greatly
overstated while benefits have been greatly understated. They
assume 1 crash will only kill the crew, ignoring a potential
catastrophe a large cargo jet crash can cause."
A growing number of aviation organizations, companies and
persons have called for the FAA to include cargo flights in the
recent a plans... announced after years of delays.
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