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Transportation Security Agency Permits Stadium Flyovers for FAA-Known Pilots.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2002

By Maryanne George, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 6--While football fans at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University will be watching players on the field Saturday, police and school officials will be nervously scanning the skies for planes towing banners, hoping they recognize all the planes.

The flights were banned by the Federal Aviation Administration for security reasons after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. But the new Transportation Security Administration has begun issuing waivers to known pilots -- those who have been known to the FAA in the past -- prompting protests from U-M, MSU and other college officials as well as the National Football League and Major League Baseball.

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