FAA Travesties
An eye-opening NPR piece just released recounts flagrant, appalling retaliation against FAA whistleblowers. The article has whistleblowers describe how they were investigated, decertified, even physical assaulted. From NPR:
They did things blatant, they tried to run me off the road…A guy used to knock me down at work all the time. He'd walk by — if nobody was looking, he'd knock me down.
This abuse came from a female employee who reported managerial cover-ups of incidents of planes flying too close to each other. Another whistleblower reported the same type of incident, stating:
I estimate that it was 800 feet or less...It was the closest we had seen two airplanes come together in my career — and everyone else's, too.
That whistleblower also faced “quick and intense” retaliation.
The malfeasance at the FAA is out of Control. Someone... Congress... the OSC... the American people... need to demand that a complete and total house-cleaning take place. Start at the top with Sturgell, and work your way down to the Facility Managers.
Posted by: Angus | June 27, 2008 at 12:10 AM