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<text id=91TT0756>
<title>
Apr. 08, 1991: Business Notes:Trouble
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Apr. 08, 1991 The Simple Life
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 55
Business Notes
TROUBLE
The Malibu Mystery
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<p> It's a record to give pilots and passengers pause: seven Piper
Malibu Mirage aircraft have broken apart in midair in the past
22 months. The manufacturer, Piper Aircraft of Vero Beach,
Fla., insists that the six-seat, single-engine plane is entirely
airworthy. The Federal Aviation Administration has suspicions
to the contrary and last week issued a directive grounding the
518 remaining Malibus in foul weather and limiting the ways the
planes can be flown.
</p>
<p> Prompting the action was a mid-March accident in Florida
that killed a family of four when their Malibu fell apart
during a rainstorm. The FAA has not determined the cause of the
accident and is still investigating the six similar mishaps, but
says it has found evidence of "gross" excess strain on the
wings of the aircraft that crashed. The manufacturer attributes
the accidents to "pilot error and pilot inexperience" in
adverse weather at speeds greater than the planes were designed
to handle.
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</body></article>
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