Since that time, 280 airlines have trained pilots at Moses Lake, according to port officials.

The airline now includes them on all flights and has trained its 24,000 flight attendants to use them.

A Continental official said that the airline had been training DC-9 pilots since 1972 to operate planes within those limits.

Such changes must be approved by the bankruptcy court, but, meanwhile, the airline has been hiring and training new pilots to replace the striking ones.

And now more airlines are getting them and training their employees to use them.

The airline had also hired and trained 1,100 substitute flight attendants, in case their union stages a sympathy strike.

The final investigative report suggested that airlines train their pilots to deal with unusual situations.

Many smaller airlines still train in their own planes because they consider that method cheaper than simulator training.

She notes optimistically that some airlines are now training crew members to speak directly to one another.

Part of the problem, the safety board said, is that the airline trains its personnel in Denver.