2000
DECEMBER
December 21, 2000
Bumpy Skies
After a background report, Ray Suarez leads a discussion on Americans' growing dissatisfaction with air travel.

SEPTEMBER
September 12, 2000
Rough Road
After Kwame Holman's background report, Margaret Warner leads a panel discussion on the tire recall.

September 11, 2000
Wanted: Mechanics
Ted Robbins of KUAT, Tucson, reports on the search for skilled airline mechanics.

September 8, 2000
Unsafe Trucks
In the second of two reports, Betty Ann Bowser examines efforts to curb fatigue among truck drivers.

September 7, 2000
Rough Road
In the first of two reports, Betty Ann Bowser investigates the dangers posed by trucks on the nation's roadways.

September 6, 2000
Rough Road
Kwame Holman reports on the Congressional hearings on the recall of Firestone tires used on Ford SUVs.

AUGUST
August 22, 2000
Road Troubles
After a background report and discussion with a Firestone official , three experts assess the fallout from the tire recall.

August 22, 2000
Final Report: TWA Flight 800
After a background report, two experts discuss the crash of TWA Flight 800 and the National Transportation Safety Board's two-day meeting about the incident.

August 10, 2000
Unfriendly Skies
United Airlines suffers under repeated weather delays and labor problems.

August 8, 2000
The Money Pit
Correspondent Paul Solman, of WGBH, Boston, examines a federally-funded construction project of epic proportions.

JULY
July 26, 2000
The Crash of the Concorde
Lee Dickinson, former member of the National Transportation Safety Board and now director of the Washington Office of Exponent Failure Analysis, which does aviation investigation work, discusses new information about Tuesday's Concorde crash.

July 25, 2000
Concorde Crash
An Air France Concorde bound for New York crashed after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing all 109 on board, and 4 people on the ground.

July 12, 2000
Stacked Up
Why delays are making air travel a waiting game, a discussion about the trouble with air traffic.

JUNE
June 21, 2000
Pumped Up
Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW reports from Chicago, where gas prices are over $2 a gallon, then, a discussion about gasoline pricing.

MAY
May 24, 2000
Flying Giant
United Airlines, the world's largest airline, moves to buy U.S. Airways. Richard Golaszewski, executive vice president of transportation consulting firm GRA Inc., and Mark Orwoll, managing editor of Travel and Leisure Magazine, discuss the potential impact on air travel.

MARCH
March 15, 2000
Paying at the Pump
Gary Ross, chief executive officer at the Pira Energy Group, an international energy consulting firm; Walter McCormick Jr., president and C.E.O. of the American Trucking Associations; Carl Pope, executive director of The Sierra Club; Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Consumer Federation of America and a former senator from Ohio; discuss the continuing price hikes in the oil industry.

FEBRUARY
February 14, 2000
Flight 261: The Investigation
Lee Dickinson, former member of The National Transportation Safety Board and current director of the Washington office of Exponent Failure Analysis, which focuses on aviation investigation; and Michael Goldfarb, former chief of staff at The Federal Aviation Administration and current chief of an aviation consulting firm; analyze the emerging information on the evidence of the crash which killed all 88 people aboard Alaska Air flight 261.

February 3, 2000
Flight 261: The Search for Answers
NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels updates the findings by investigators on the plane crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261 that killed 88 people. Lee Dickinson, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board and the director of Exponent Failure Analysis, an engineering and investigative firm that specializes in transportation accidents, talks about the latest information.

February 1, 2000
Alaska Air Flight 261 Down
Lee Dickinson, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, and the director of Exponent Failure Analysis, an engineering and investigative firm that specializes in transportation accidents, talks about Monday's crash.