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No. 7 FAA proposes largest fine ever, $24.2 million, on American Airlines

The government agency proposed millions of dollars in fines against several airlines for a variety of maintenance issues. And then a special report by the Department of Transportation criticized the FAA for being too cozy with the carriers in 2008, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines in particular.


But the biggest fine from the FAA came in August, when regulators hit American with the largest fine in the agency's history, saying that the Fort Worth-based carrier failed to properly inspect and repair wires in the wheel wells of its MD-80 fleet in 2008.

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