Safety Improvements On Slow Track After ValuJet Crash

Major efforts to improve FAA's safety inspections of startup air carriers - recommended by a special task force following the ValuJet accident in 1996 - have run into delays, according to DOT Inspector General Kenneth Mead and FAA Administrator Jane Garvey. They told DOT Secretary Rodney Slater last...

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