Transcript of Hearing 12/12/97 - TWA Flight 800 Investigation

1255123451, again, am very pleased to see that fromboth the Federal Aviation Administration and the BoeingCommercial Airplane Group that that is a commitmentthat the American people now have, that those both aregoing to be addressed.6In addition,we looked in our recommendations7891011at both the short term and long term, because werealize that a lot of this involves design engineering,and you don’t want to put anything on the airplane thatwould cause it to be less safe. But, SO, we had madeshort term and long term recommendations.12so,I thank you for a well thought out, well1314presented presentation.MR. ANDERSON:Mr. Anderson?Thank you, sir.1516171819202122BY MR. ANDERSON: (Resuming. )Q Captain Green, you made I believe animportant point when you talked about the –– rather,extending this problem to handle all airplanes,basically referring to size and type, but that areendangered.Could you expand on that a little more andsort of give your concept of that complexity?23AI think it goes back to a requirement.24Again, as I think we have all been discussing, if we25can establish,which is what we would hope to doCAPITAL HILL REPORTING, INC.(202) 466-9500