The target: bundled wiring for Boeing MD-80 planes at American Airlines and other carriers.

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The MD-80 was carrying 98 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants, Heires said.

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American Airlines said it has already installed prototypes of the devices on an MD-80 and a Boeing 757.

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What industry experts question is why, until now, inspections of bundled wiring have never been much of a concern during the quarter-century MD-80's have been flying.

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"Either every MD-80 has been flying unsafely for the past 25 years, or this is just grandstanding, " says Michael Boyd, an industry consultant in Evergreen, Colo.

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Over the years WD-40 has had to fight scamsters selling shoddy material under such labels as MD- 50, SP-80, RO-90 and WB-50.

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