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FAA may be overtaken by events in the marketplace.” 4 They noted that on July 1, 1997, American Airlines had placed defibrillators aboard all of its commercial jets, trained 2300 pursers to use the device, and was pressing Congress for a federal Good Samaritan law to indemnify medical professionals from malpractice suits. However, other airlines began to follow American’s lead. US Airways would become the second U.S. domestic airline to begin carrying portable cardiac defibrillators on some of its planes and the first to install hand-held heart monitors that