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Direct the FAA to mandate all-cargo airlines comply with newly established Flightcrew Member Duty and Rest Requirements

Created by J.H. on December 28, 2011

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.

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