Who is the FAA Looking Out For?

A Business Week article details the retaliation faced by FAA safety inspectors who blow the whistle on potentially unsafe airliners.

One inspector, for example, sent a letter to the agency warning that airline mechanics for Northwest Airlines were grossly inexperienced and that significant safety problems were discovered on flights during stopovers, such as a “broken lavatory duct that allowed human waste to spill onto vital navigation equipment,” according to the article.

Instead of heeding the warning, the FAA punished the investigator, limiting his access and relegating him to a desk job. Many safety inspectors claim to have “experienced or witnessed retaliation.”

-- Dylan Blaylock

Comments

[Danae]

Excellent.