WASHINGTON - Boma lipereka chindapusa kwa nthawi yoyamba motsutsana ndi ndege zapaulendo omwe akuyenda pabwalo la ndege, dipatimenti yowona zamayendedwe idatero Lachiwiri.
Dipatimentiyi idati idapereka chindapusa cha $ 175,000 motsutsana ndi ndege zitatu chifukwa cha gawo lawo lotsekereza anthu okwera ndege usiku wonse ku Rochester, Minn., Pa Ogasiti 8.
Continental Express Flight 2816 inali paulendo wochokera ku Houston kupita ku Minneapolis itanyamula anthu 47 pamene mvula yamkuntho inakakamiza kuti itembenukire ku Rochester, komwe inatera pafupifupi 12:30 am - anakana kutsegula terminal kwa okwera omwe adasowa.
Continental Airlines ndi mnzake wapaulendo wandege wa ExpressJet, omwe amayendetsa ndegeyi ku Continental, aliyense alipitsidwa chindapusa cha $50,000. Mneneri wa ExpressJet a Kristy Nicholas adati ndegeyo ingapewe kulipira theka la chindapusa ngati ikugwiritsa ntchito ndalama zomwezo pophunzitsa antchito awo momwe angagwiritsire ntchito kuchedwa kwa phula.
Dipatimentiyi inapereka chilango chachikulu kwambiri - $ 75,000 - pa Mesaba Airlines, kampani ya Northwest Airlines, yomwe inapezedwa ndi Delta Air Lines chaka chatha.
"Ndikukhulupirira kuti izi zitumiza chizindikiro kwa makampani ena onse oyendetsa ndege kuti tikuyembekeza kuti ndege zizilemekeza ufulu wa oyenda pandege," Mlembi wa Transportation Ray LaHood adatero m'mawu ake. "Tigwiritsanso ntchito zomwe taphunzira pakufufuzaku kuti tilimbikitse chitetezo kwa okwera ndege omwe akuchedwa kwanthawi yayitali."
Okwera ndege ya Flight 2816 adadikirira pafupifupi maola asanu ndi limodzi m'ndege yocheperako pakati pa makanda akulira komanso chimbudzi chonunkha ngakhale anali mayadi 50 okha kuchokera pamalo okwerera ndege. Woyendetsa ndegeyo anachonderera mobwerezabwereza kuti okwera ndegewo atsike ndikulowa pamalo okwerera ndege.
Kutacha analoledwa kutsika. Anakhala pafupifupi maola awiri ndi theka ali mkati mwa terminal asanakwerenso ndege yomweyi kuti amalize ulendo wawo wopita ku Minneapolis.
Passenger Link Christin wayamikira zomwe dipatimentiyi yachita.
“Kugamula kuti panali kulakwa kapena kunyalanyaza kuli kofunika kwambiri kwa ine kuposa kuchuluka kwa chindapusa,” anatero Christin, mphunzitsi pa William Mitchell College of Law ku St. Paul, Minn.
Chilangochi chimatumiza uthenga osati kumakampani oyendetsa ndege okha, komanso kwa mabizinesi ambiri "kuti pali sheriff watsopano mtawuniyi ndipo angachite bwino ndi makasitomala awo," atero a Dan Petree, wamkulu pasukulu yabizinesi ku Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. ku Daytona Beach, Fla.
A John Spanjers, purezidenti wa Mesaba, adati ndegeyo "ikupitilirabe kuwona kuti ikugwira ntchito mokhulupirika."
"Komabe, chithandizo chamakasitomala ndichofunika kwambiri, ndipo tikuwunikanso mfundo zathu ndi njira zoyendetsera ndege zina zandege kuti tichite mbali yathu kuti tichepetse kuchedwa kumeneku," adatero Spanjers.
Continental idanenanso kuti chindapusa chake chinali chocheperako poyerekeza ndi zomwe zidaperekedwa ku kampani ya Delta.
Kupatula chindapusacho, Continental idabwezanso ndalama zonse kwa wokwera aliyense ndipo "inapatsa aliyense wokwera chipukuta misozi kuti avomereze nthawi ndi kusapeza kwawo," idatero dipatimentiyo.
Zomwe dipatimentiyi idachita zikubwera pomwe Congress ikuwunika malamulo a ufulu wa okwera omwe angayike maola atatu kuti ndege zizitha kudikirira okwera pamasitima asanawapatse mwayi woti atsike kapena kubwerera pachipata. Izi zipatsa woyendetsa ndegeyo mphamvu yoti awonjezere kudikirira kwa theka la ola ngati zikuwoneka kuti chilolezo chonyamuka chayandikira.
Muyesowu ukutsutsidwa ndi Air Transport Association, yomwe imayimira ndege zazikulu. Akuluakulu aku mafakitale ati kuletsa maola atatu kumatha kubweretsa mavuto ambiri kuposa momwe kungachepetsere pakuwonjezera kuchuluka kwa ndege zomwe zathetsedwa ndikusiya okwera ali pabwalo la ndege kuyesa kupanga maulendo atsopano.
Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., ndi Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, olemba nawo ufulu wa okwera ndege, adanena m'mawu ogwirizana kuti adakondwera ndi zomwe dipatimentiyi ikuchita, koma malamulo akuyenera kuyikabe. khazikitsani miyezo yoyendetsera ndege kwa makasitomala awo komanso kuti aziyankha oyendetsa ndege kuti akwaniritse zomwezo. Kupatula kapu ya maola atatu, biluyo idzafuna kuti ndege zizipereka chakudya, madzi amchere, kutentha kwa kanyumba kabwinoko komanso mpweya wabwino, komanso zimbudzi zokwanira kwa apaulendo pakachedwa.
Kevin Mitchell, wapampando wa Business Travel Coalition, gulu la ogula lomwe likuyimira oyenda bizinesi, adati akuyembekeza kuti chindapusachi chithandizira kukakamiza makampani opanga ndege kuti athane ndi nkhawa za momwe amachitira anthu okwera panthawi yochedwetsa tara pambuyo pazaka zambiri zokopa anthu. popanda malamulo.
