FAA Recommends Inerting System
The FAA says a ground-based inerting system needs development, which would require pumping of nitrogen into aircraft fuel tanks, reducing oxygen from the vapor space. That recommendation, and 40 new Airworthiness Directives targeting ignition sources, arose from the crash of TWA Flight 800 in July...
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