MARION BLAKEY may become the first chief of the Federal Aviation Administration to have to reply to official letters she wrote herself. In less than a year in her previous job as chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates air crashes, she sent 74 major suggestions for making air travel safer to the head of the FAA, which regulates US aviation. By the time Blakey left the NTSB in September to head up the FAA, not one of the 74 items had been implemented, although some are presumably moving through the FAA’s labyrinthine pipeline.
Will air travel become…
