More evidence that the Bush administration's pattern of failure to protect the public is still the administration's approach to public safeguards, from the AP: Nearly nine years after a fuel tank explosion caused the fatal crash of TWA Flight 800, safety officials say little has been done to reduce the flammability of vapors in aircraft fuel tanks. The Federal Aviation Administration announced in February 2004 that it had found a filtering system — called fuel inerting — to make fuel vapors less likely to ignite. The agency said it would propose in fall 2004 a regulation requiring that such systems be installed on Boeing and Airrus jetliners. But no rule has been proposed yet. The National Transportation Safety Board acknowledges that Boeing is producing new planes with improvements that will reduce the risk of fuel tank explosions, but the NTSB stresses that we still have no rules in place to retrofit the remainder of the fleet or to reduce the risk by moving air conditioners away from the fuel tanks.