NASA has just released thousands of pages of pilot complaints that were part of a report which the federal space agency originally classified. Under pressure from Congress, that classification was partially reversed. NASA explains on its website:

"In the interest of timeliness, this first release is by nature conservative to ensure the responses do not contain confidential commercial information or information that could compromise the anonymity of individual pilots. Efforts will be made in 2008 to release additional NAOMS information that was redacted for this release."

A portion of the responses of 4,777 pilots surveyed can be downloaded here. 

The study, called NASA National Aviation Operational Monitoring Service (NAOMS), cost approximately $1 million to conduct and took three-years and eight-months to complete. NASA says the information will now be turned over to the National Academy of Sciences, as well as aviation security experts, to analyze.

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