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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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The Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington ruled yesterday that flight training is not required for the third-man engineer on new U.S. passenger planes, complicating labor disputes between pilots' and engineers' unions and airlines, including the Flight Engineers' Union strike against Eastern Airlines and a threatened strike against American Airlines on Friday midnight.
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WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled yesterday that flight training is not a required safety qualification for the engineer third-man member on America's new passenger planes.
The ruling complicates the current labor dispute between the Pilots' and Engineers' unions and the airlines over whether the third man -- in addition to the pilot and copilot -- should be pilot-trained.
The issue is a key one in the current Flight Engineers' Union strike against Eastern Airlines and is also an issue in the strike threatened for Friday midnight on American Airlines.
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Washington
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Yesterday
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ruling complicates labor dispute between pilots' and engineers' unions and airlines; key issue in flight engineers' union strike against eastern airlines and threatened strike against american airlines for friday midnight.
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The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that flight training is not a required safety qualification for the engineer third-man member on America's new passenger planes. This ruling affects the dispute over whether the third man, in addition to the pilot and copilot, should be pilot-trained.