The major airlines will voluntarily install fire detectors in the cargo compartments of the airplanes that do not already have them, aviation executives say.

But another aviation executive suggested that the Chinese customers might have second thoughts.

Clark is even more critical, accusing European aviation executives of being short-sighted, protectionist and, only "paying lip service to the new order".

Mr. Dichter, an aviation executive, said there was no other way to travel.

Her second husband was William Clymer Bidlack, an aviation executive.

The conference followed the three-hour drill observed by aviation executives and two hours of briefings for them.

She saw safety in a relationship with an older, American aviation executive, who brought her to this country in 1975.

The retired aviation executive was 93 and lived in Miami Beach.

Slots are now bought and sold for up to $3 million each, aviation executives say.

One aviation executive called the static electricity theory "scientific speculation."