Big Airline Safety Hearing Today

In the latest piece of an ongoing story, two FAA whistleblowers stated that supervisors ignored their reports that Southwest Airlines tried to hide its maintenance problems. Furthermore, the inspector-whistleblowers claim that Southwest tried to have them specifically removed from reviewing the company’s planes.

In what should be a highly charged and watched event, both Southwest’s Chairman and CEO will testify today at a hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee about this entire scandal. This story broke a few weeks ago, when it was revealed that Southwest had flown passengers on planes (for up to 30 months) that did not have mandatory, routine safety checks for some equipment performed.

You can watch the hearing starting at 10 a.m. Eastern Time on the committee’s Web site here.

-- Dylan Blaylock