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Article: The FAA Should Require Child Safety Seats
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 13, 1994
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Reports that certain child safety seats may be ill-equipped for
air travel should not lead passengers to conclude that children are
safer on a parent's lap when they fly {news story, May 27}.
A study sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration
concluded that required use of child safety seats would "decrease
the expected number of infant fatalities in air transportation, but
increase the expected number of {non-infant fatalities} in
automobiles," based on the assumption that families would drive to
their destination rather than purchase a ticket for their child.
Yet this argument reaches far beyond the FAA mandate of
promoting aviation safety and may be behind the agency's refusal ...