1982 The Airbus A300 FFCC is certified, becoming the first wide body airliner with cockpit accommodations for only two to be certified.2003 A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.
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When I worked as an FAA "licensed" (certificated) "Airman", it seemed odd to me then that I was FAA certificated as an "Airman"; and I'd never worked on an aircraft aloft, in the air; but Flight Attendants who did the majority of their work aloft; were not FAA certificated as "Airman".
I understand that is changed; that for several years F/A's have been FAA certificated as are mechanics, flight engineers, pilots, parachute riggers, and possibly at one time; on-board aeronautical telegraph radio operators? Are F/A's FAA certificated "Airmen" now? When did they obtain the new designation? Why did airlines oppose the obvious so long?
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Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:35 pm
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Joined: Oct 08, 2002 Posts: 306
In the fall of 2003, Congress established a flight attendant certification requirement under the Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act (the Act).
Although flight attendants perform safety- and security-related functions, they previously had never been certificated like pilots, mechanics, aircraft dispatchers, parachute riggers, and others whom Congress calls airmen, collectively.
Congress acknowledged that flight attendants perform vital crewmember functions onboard air carrier aircraft, including emergency functions for aircraft evacuations, firefighting, first aid, and response to security threats. Flight attendants are considered safety-sensitive employees subject to FAA drug and alcohol testing requirements and flight time limitations.
The Act distinguishes between this certificate and an airman’s certificate. This certificate is not an airman’s certificate as specified in Title 49 of the United States Code (49 U.S.C.), section 44703; it is a separate kind of certificate as specified in 49 U.S.C., section 44728.
After December 11, 2004, no person may serve as a flight attendant aboard an aircraft of an air carrier unless that person holds a certificate of demonstrated proficiency issued by the FAA.
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