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Thursday, December 11,1986/The Battalion/Page 13 By Jim Earle Airline officers call FAA air surgeon’s policy dangerous 'Now, that’s what I call a Christmas tree!” o cut acra 1 apparent *1 I i vision of t on but was ug. It tvasafe i had taken New YorkCj s, which hat >rk since II ie Ruiz,"said! been usini it the spiel top 50 of iS a Bakkeroftl ssociation. 1* lalifiedlastm merican Airlines purchases icijority of AirCal parent iers weredis s Chicago* t 9,000 ram ht ik anyone eating in iffi eople cheat r income •ORT WORTH (AP) — Ameri can Airlines announced Wednesday that it completed its purchase of a majority of the stock of ACI Hold ing, parent company of AirCal Inc. ^Rmerican bought 60.1 percent, or fpjnost 5.45 million shares, of the ACI stock from the company’s two nrincipal shareholders, The William p&n Co. and George L. Argyros. I The transaction was part of a oergei agreement between Ameri can and ACI announced Nov. 17, under which American would ac quire ACTs stock at $ 15 per share. The Department of Transporta tion earlier authorized American to purchase up to six million shares of ACI stock. Most of the shares were placed in a trust pending approval of the merger, American said. AirCal Inc., based in Newport Beach, Calif., is one of the two larg est regional carriers in California. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration’s top medical officer defended his practice of certifying commercial pi lots Wednesday, but a congressional panel was told there is almost uni versal agreement among airlines that his decisions pose serious air safety problems. Dr. Frank Austin Jr., the FAA’s air surgeon, blamed the controversy on a “difference of medical opinion” and said he is confident his decisions on pilot medical appeals “present no safety risk.” But in an appearance before a House subcommittee, Austin ac knowledged that of 18 to 20 cases about which he had received com plaints, 75 percent of the pilots later were barred from flying by their em ployer and several of the pilots sub sequently suffered heart attacks. The physician, who became the FAA’s top medical officer two years ago, appeared before the House subcommittee on government activ ities and transportation along with three of his strongest critics: the medical adviser to the Air Line Pilots Association and medical directors at two major airlines. “There is almost universal agreement that we have a very se rious air safety problem” in the way the FAA under Austin has handled commercial pilots’ medical appeals, testified Robert Wick, chief medical officer at American Airlines. Wick said that Austin has often overruled recommendations by a panel of cardiac specialists and often accused the FAA physician of “fail ing ... to appreciate the seriousness of many of these (medical) condi tions.” Dr. Gary Kohn, corporate medical director at United Airlines, testified that the FAA certification cases since Austin took over often have re flected “poor judgment” and “irra tional decision making” that has al lowed unfit pilots to be recertified for duty. Both Wick and Kohn said that their airlines have barred a number of pilots from flying even though they were approved by Austin, but Kohn added other airlines, includ ing some without medical depart ments, may not review the FAA deci sions as closely. Among recent cases cited in which Austin found pilots fit to fly at major airlines were: • A pilot whose peripheral vision was so poor that he was considered blind in terms of the right side of his visual field. • A 54-year-old pilot who had a medical condition that caused him to suddenly lose consciousness. • A pilot who had heart disease and extensive heart damage with a good chance of a recurring heart at tack. “Each of these cases has the po tential (of the pilot) controlling an aircraft at a vital point in flight,” said Kohn. Richard Stone, chairman of the medical committee of the Air Line Pilots Association, accused Austin and the FAA of “experimenting with new medical theories” in the cockpit of commercial airliners. “We now have an unknown num ber of pilots with severe medical con ditions being allowed back into the cockpit,” said Stone, who flies for Delta Air Lines. Anthony Broderick, the FAA air surgeon’s boss, said the agency is putting together an outside panel of physicians to review each of Austin’s decisions about which there have been complaints. ranch for sale; paved run way s winsheserted Rajneesh home still popular with Oregon's visitors ^uiriei Dtshff Deported guru’s eludes airport, (AP) ' 12-fool the Port oss snappe"' !g streak f# 'icks, who 1(“ atne ‘ riod, ainingm ] itor’s note — For Sale: Abandoned com bine. Includes 64,000-acre ranch, 140-room ho- el, 95 town houses, 42 quadruplex cabins, 200 A- ame cabins, 52 double-wide mobile homes, 39 mmercial buildings, and airport with paved mway. Must sell. Previous guru deported. * .‘Zf Ming$28.5 million. er with fivt*- T ay nigh !(i'|S' JnEESHPURAM, Ore. (AP) — The signs icks a b jhat point the way to Rancho Rajneesh have been olen, but tourists still find the place, enduring tiles of tortuous gravel road to see the former >w 13 o or ] c | headquarters of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. y in 1^ 1 The white-bearded Rajneesh, who calls him- tlf the “rich man’s guru,” was deported to his ative India last November after spending 4V2 ears presiding over a commune that as many as ,000 red-clad disciples claimed as their home. Some 15,000 jammed Rajneeshpuram during ie sect’s annual summer festivals. The commune was disbanded soon after Raj- eesh departed. 1 the M;i'< Now only a maintenance crew of followers re- mt Portia*’ tains; most of the rest have dispersed around who he world. in their set 1 * 1 Gone, too, is the fleet of more than 90 Rolls- ktyce cars from which the bejeweled Indian uru chose for his daily “driveby.” The driveby was a ritual in which singing and laming disciples tossed flowers on the hood of assessed!* 0 *lecaras Rajneesh slowly drove past. 1 ejected mtingad den. Blad its. ■ last fouf in ged hai d led 129-1 ■v made oaf ith 35seco» l ° ,vard SaB ’ two free f to 129-1 f efore D# ’ ihot after irown the 0 ' all scorers t guard 1 in thethWi The four roadside guard stations, once staffed by armed disciples who screened visitors, stand empty now. At the first, a hand-drawn sign is posted: “Closed. No hotel — no restaurant — no tours — no gas.” Weeds sprout in a soccer field, on a footpath and in flower beds. Only the county road is acces sible; private roads are blocked by boulders or chains. The road winds past the deserted airport and downtown, where the shopping mall once bustled with disciples. Now posters of Rajneesh stare from a window of the closed bookstore at an empty parking lot. The property is for sale, with the original asking price of $40 million lowered to $28.5 mil lion. The 64,000-acre ranch includes orchards, a vineyard and a 65-acre vegetable farm. There also are two lakes stocked with fish and six miles of frontage on the John Day River. Residential buildings, according to advertise ments, include a 140-room hotel, 95 town houses, 42 quadruplex cabins, 200 A-frame cab ins and 52 double-wide mobile homes. Also included is the house in which Rajneesh lived, billed as one of two “luxury housing es tates.” Thirty-nine commercial and industrial build ings are listed, with overall space of 470,000 square feet. The structures include a shopping mall, bou tiques, warehouses and repair garages. The airport on the property has a 4,500-foot paved runway. The Rajneeshees bought the arid, over-grazed property for $6 million. They said they pumped more than $100 million into the ranch. Up to $5 million of the sale revenue will go to the state and to victims of crimes committed by Rajneeshees as part of the settlement of a racke teering lawsuit against sect organizations. Rajneesh, 54, pleaded guilty to two immigra tion charges and returned to India under an agreement with federal officials. He since has visited and been evicted from a series of other countries and at last report was back in India. The pistol-packing and acid-tongued Ma Anand Sheela, who ran the commune’s business affairs as Rajneesh’s top lieutenant, is serving a 4 1 /2-year term in a federal prison. 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