[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 787 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 787

 To require the Secretary of Transportation to issue an air worthiness 
      directive related to dense and continuous smoke in aircraft.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 19, 1993

  Mr. Inouye (by request) (for himself and Mr. Akaka) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Transportation to issue an air worthiness 
      directive related to dense and continuous smoke in aircraft.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AIR WORTHINESS DIRECTIVE.

    (a) In General.--Within 90 days following the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall take such actions as 
may be necessary to issue an air worthiness directive which would apply 
to all turbine engine powered aircraft.
    (b) Purposes.--In order to ensure that a pilot will be able to see 
minimum vital flight instruments, approach plats, check lists, 
emergency procedures and, when necessary, flight paths, in order to 
enable an aircraft to be controlled and safely landed during emergency 
conditions of dense and continuous smoke on the flight deck, the air 
worthiness directive issued in accordance with subsection (a) shall 
accomplish the following:
            (1) Demonstrate to the Federal Aviation Administration by 
        actual test that the aircraft ventilation system, based on 
        minimum equipment requirements and smoke evacuation procedures 
        during critical flight conditions, is capable of providing a 
        sufficiently smoke-free flight deck environment to ensure 
        essential pilot vision for continued control of an airplane 
        under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) or Visual Flight Rules 
        (VFR) in the event dense smoke continuously enters the flight 
        deck.
            (2) Provide smoke displacement equipment that positively 
        removes smoke from the critical vision path and provides the 
        requisite minimum vital vision for the required pilot(s).

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