FAA Holds Off On New Fire-Resistance Test

A six-month deadline to develop a new protocol for testing the fire resistance of aircraft insulation has come and gone, and FAA said yesterday it is "not going to speculate on when this whole effort might be done." The study was ordered following the crashes of TWA 800 and Swissair 111 (DAILY, Nov...

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