The Nation - News from Nov. 23, 1988

While there have been improvements, pilots at Delta Air Lines continue to have problems with cockpit crew coordination and at times skirt established procedures, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA said that while Delta’s management “has taken strong and positive action” in response to a critical review of the airline’s operations 14 months ago, much of its program has yet to be fully implemented. Delta’s cockpit operations and its training program came under intense FAA scrutiny in the summer of l987 after a series of errors by Delta pilots brought the airline close to having serious accidents.