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

12771MR. ANDERSON:Thank you, sir.23QBY MR. ANDERSON: (Resuming. )My last question would be, could you share456789with us some of your impressions, rather than goingthrough individual responses -- but, we can do that ifyou like -- to your NPRM. Could you just share with usyour feelings on what was received? -- and feel free togive examples if you like.A Okay, as I said, there were about a thousand10pages of comments.We received comments from the11121314industry, nitrogen inerting, system manufacturers,foreign regulatory authorities, universities and such.There was admittedly a lot of people whothough there wasn’t even a problem that needed to be15solved,and there were others that thought we should go161718192021well beyond what we were doing right now. So, therewas a full gamut of comments, which I think is verypositive. I mean, that is the kind of input we like toget.There was comments about temperature,controlling the fuel –– temperature, comments about22ventilating,insulating the tanks, nitrogen injection23to cool the fuel on the ground.There was a lot of24comments received about nitrogen inerting.Quite25frankly, those people that had a system felt theirCAPITAL HILL REPORTING, INC.(202) 466-9500