Thursday, December 11,1986/The Battalion/Page 13
By Jim Earle
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policy dangerous
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Sheela, 36, pleaded guilty in July to charges
that included the attempted murder of Raj
neesh’s physician with a poison-filled syringe.
She is to be deported to her native India when
she gets out of prison.
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