The Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday that it will order U.S. airlines to install a new safety device on thousands of planes to prevent fuel tank explosions such as the one believed to ...

ASHBURN, Va. | A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion ...

ASHBURN, Va. -- A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion ...

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) - July 16, 2008 The new safety requirement, announced by Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, applies to new passenger and cargo planes that have center fuel tanks like TWA 800, a ...

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced Wednesday a new safety requirement for airplanes, the Associated Press reports. New passenger jets and cargo planes ...

ASHBURN, Va. – A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion ...

Panama-based Copa Airlines will retrofit its Boeing 737s with Honeywell’s air separation module (ASM), becoming the first announced customer for the fuel tank safety system component. ASMs serve as ...

The FAA is prepared to grant extensions to operators working to meet the December 2014 deadline for installing fuel tank flammability reduction means (FRM) systems in half of their aircraft, but will ...

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an ...