Thursday
3 Apr 2008
FAA Grilled by Congress, Told to Clean House
By Annie Jacobsen in category Behind the Scenes, U.S. Homeland Security
Congress wants the FAA to get rid of unethical managers and clean house "from the top down" after hearings today revealed that top FAA supervisors have lost their moral center.
Safety Inspectors testified that that oversight has been tossed to the wayside. One FAA whistle blower received death threats. Airlines and lobbyists appear to have been running the show. The hearing lasted for six hours.
This from the agency that was dubbed "The Tombstone Agency" before 9/11. Meaning some one had to die before the agency changed its ways.
(Photo caption: Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times. From left, the aviation safety inspectors Charalambe Boutris, Douglas Peters, Michael Mills, Paul Cotti, Robert Naccache and Terry Lambert were sworn in during a hearing on Capitol Hill.)