Article: FAA mulls child safety seats on planes

The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing the use of child safety seats on airliners after an infant was killed in last week's United Airlines DC-10 crash, an FAA spokesman said Thursday.

The FAA does not require infants to be placed in child safety seats, only that the child be held on the lap with the seat belt buckled around the adult, said FAA spokesman Fred Farrar in Washington, D.C.

The Association of Flight Attendants has called on the FAA to examine the rules. The ...

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