LAW & REGULATION

The U.S. airline industry may not be able to fulfill a government deadline requiring that all of its 1,368 oldest planes meet strict safety standards by mid-1994, the General Accounting Office said. It urged the Federal Aviation Administration to push for completion of the repair program or hundreds of planes may be grounded. The GAO reported that as of April 10, only 28 of the older planes had been repaired completely while 705 had been partially repaired. It said that airlines in precarious financial condition had done the poorest job of fixing older aircraft.