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injury to the vital public interest in a safe and efficient air transportation system, and may indeed produce consequences diametrically opposite to those which were sought for in 1959.

25. Moreover, the rapidly increased number of airline pilots affected by the rule suggests strongly that elementary fairness and due process now, more than ever before, require a thorough and meaningful review and reconsideration of the rule. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 places upon the FAA certainly a moral obligation--if not a legal obligation--to insure that this admittedly arbitrary age cutoff is, in fact, achieving the public objectives for which it was created, and that it has not, by reason of intervening changes in circumstances, become a rule whose obsolescence would be complete but for its vestigial destructive effects upon individual employment rights. It seems now, in view of all of the foregoing, the proper obligation of the FAA to come forward with clear and convincing evidence that material intervening changes have not, in fact, removed