Editing Flight engineer (section)

== Regulation ==
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Unlike commercial pilots, the [[Federal Aviation Administration]] never set a mandatory retirement age for flight engineers. As a result, some pilots would voluntarily downgrade themselves when turning 60.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gibbons |first1=Amy |title=No Place to Go After 60: The Plight of Pilots and Flight Engineers in the Airline Industry |journal=Hofstra Labor Law Journal |date=1985 |volume=2 |issue=2 |url=http://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlelj/vol2/iss2/4 |access-date=28 January 2022}}</ref> This policy was the subject of two [[U.S. Supreme Court]] cases in 1985, when it ruled against [[Western Airlines]] that forced retirement of flight engineers based on the regulations for pilots was a violation of the [[Age Discrimination in Employment Act]]. Earlier in the year it had rejected a policy that prevented pilots from "bumping" flight engineers from their positions upon the former reaching retirement age.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Greenhouse |first1=Linda |title=Forced Retirement at 60 Barred |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/18/business/forced-retiring-at-60-barred.html |access-date=28 January 2022 |work=New York Times |date=18 June 1985 |page=D1}}</ref>