Pilots Say Cockpit Dangers Being Ignored

Photo from source, CNN

Gaaah. With The Other Half regularly working (ok, not lately, but soon) on airplanes--this gives me a wiggins. Hopefully, they're exaggerating?

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Pilots: Cockpit dangers being ignored

Regulators have largely ignored a series of dangerous incidents in which cockpit windshields in commercial airliners shattered in midflight, sometimes forcing emergency landings, according to an American Airlines pilots' group.

Since 2004, at least 10 windshields have had problems on Boeing 757s, mostly the result of wiring problems with windshield heaters that cause smoke to fill the cockpit and sometimes make those windshields crack, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Four incidents have been on American Airlines planes, the NTSB says. . .

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