Continental Airlines was fined by the FAA.

The carrier paid a $402,000 fine for alleged safety violations, including improper pilot training, during the airline’s rapid growth after a 1983 reorganization. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that Continental agreed to pay the fine as part of a settlement of all outstanding enforcement actions against the carrier. Many of the infractions, including improper training of 245 pilots and flight engineers, occurred during the months after Continental briefly shut down, reorganized itself under bankruptcy court protection and re-emerged in September, 1983, as a low-cost airline with about one-third of its former employees and routes.