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New rule reduces risk of fuel tank flammability on passenger jets

U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters (L) and John Hickey, Director of Aircraft Certification Service for the Federal Aviation Administrator (R) listen as National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairman Mark Rosenker (C) speaks during a news conference to announce a new rules designed to prevent fuel-tank explosions on passenger jets at the NTSB Training Facility in Ashburn, Virginia on July 16, 2008. The rule requires that within two years all new aircraft must include technology designed to reduce the risk of center fuel tank fires and all aircrafts built after 1991 be retrofitted with it. (UPI Photo/Patrick D. McDermott)

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