Does there seem to be an inordinate amount of bad press for the FAA
these days?

http://www.local6.com/news/16144687/detail.html
Former Top FAA Official Raises Concerns About Safety In The Skies

POSTED: 12:00 am EDT May 3, 2008
UPDATED: 6:39 pm EDT May 3, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Federal Aviation Administration's former top
man in Central Florida claims when he raised safety concerns about
unqualified mechanics, the government turned on him and
retaliated.

Gabe Bruno was removed as the FAA's top man in Orlando after he
questioned the priorities of higher ups, Local 6's Tony Pipitone
reported.

Bruno said he insisted the FAA track down and thoroughly retest
about 2,000 mechanics licensed through an outlaw school at
Sanford-Orlando International Airport. The school gave passing
grades to anybody willing to pay for them, Pipitone reported. ...

The issues he warned about included improperly trained mechanics,
FAA coziness with big airlines and a lack of effective maintenance
oversight, Pipitone reported.

Pipitone said Bruno's examples included the grounding of Southwest
and American Airline jets in recent weeks, crashes of a Chalk's
Ocean Airways seaplane in Miami in December 2005 and an Air
Midwest jet in Charlotte in January 2003.

"The FAA has been pounding it into the inspectors for the past
several years that the customers are the airlines, not the flying
public," Burno said.

In all, there were 41 dead, blamed ...

The Bush Administration's management of the FAA and our
Government takes maleficence and megalomania to new heights

The FAA management ranks are full of goons and political
hacks on one mission

DESTROY THE UNIONS IN THE FAA
KISS THE AIRLINES AND BIG BUSINESS ASS

The result is a disaster waiting to happen

As the fat man on thin ice called the FAA spews lies and
spouts their wonderful safety record the big crash looms

Any day now their will be a pink mist and bodies by the
hundreds raining from the sky

Any day now

Larry Dighera wrote:
> Does there seem to be an inordinate amount of bad press for the FAA
> these days?
>
> http://www.local6.com/news/16144687/detail.html
> Former Top FAA Official Raises Concerns About Safety In The Skies
>
> POSTED: 12:00 am EDT May 3, 2008
> UPDATED: 6:39 pm EDT May 3, 2008
> ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Federal Aviation Administration's former top
> man in Central Florida claims when he raised safety concerns about
> unqualified mechanics, the government turned on him and
> retaliated.
>
> Gabe Bruno was removed as the FAA's top man in Orlando after he
> questioned the priorities of higher ups, Local 6's Tony Pipitone
> reported.
>
> Bruno said he insisted the FAA track down and thoroughly retest
> about 2,000 mechanics licensed through an outlaw school at
> Sanford-Orlando International Airport. The school gave passing
> grades to anybody willing to pay for them, Pipitone reported. ...
>
> The issues he warned about included improperly trained mechanics,
> FAA coziness with big airlines and a lack of effective maintenance
> oversight, Pipitone reported.
>
> Pipitone said Bruno's examples included the grounding of Southwest
> and American Airline jets in recent weeks, crashes of a Chalk's
> Ocean Airways seaplane in Miami in December 2005 and an Air
> Midwest jet in Charlotte in January 2003.
>
> "The FAA has been pounding it into the inspectors for the past
> several years that the customers are the airlines, not the flying
> public," Burno said.
>
> In all, there were 41 dead, blamed ...


Orlando or Dallas it does not matter

From sea to shining sea the FAA is a giant cluster ****
If an expert or someone of moral fiber within the FAA
identifies safety concerns or management wrong doing the
management goons and sycophants in the FAA will turn on
their own like sharks in a feeding frenzy and eat them

Disband the FAA and start over. It is the only way the mess
will be fixed

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