FAA to require airlines to reduce flammability levels in jet transports

US FAA yesterday issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to require operators "of more than 3,200 existing and certain new large passenger jets" to reduce flammability levels of fuel tank vapors "on the ground and in the air to remove the likelihood of a potential explosion from an ignition source,"...

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