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From: A1A ]
Posted At: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:50 AM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: More proof the FemiNazi's are taking over Washinton
Subject: More proof the FemiNazi's are taking over Washinton

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Those who say the FAA is not at fault at LEX are idiots

LEXINGTON, Kentucky - Nearly two years before the fatal
crash of Comair Flight 5191,
a control tower supervisor at the Lexington airport reported
staff shortages that "can cost lives."
According to a safety memo filed in September 2004 and
obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press,
the supervisor reported the airport's radar system was not
working properly but that the
air traffic manager refused to call in a mechanical
specialist because it would mean paying
two hours of overtime.The memo went on to complain that
staffing in Lexington
was a "low priority to the powers above us (WOMEN BULL DIKES
RUNNING THE FAA) who were more focused on solving problems
at larger airports,(AND DIVERSITY AND KISSING THE BLACK ASS)
such as Louisville and Cincinnati."Those types of poorly
thought out decisions can cost lives,"
said the supervisor, who made the report anonymously
through a NASA system used by tower operators
and pilots to list safety concerns, which are ultimately
relayed to the Federal Aviation Administration.


Poor ******* had to send in his "safety" concerns about KLEX
"Anonymously". Now that the FAA is spending millions on
Diversity and Gay Pride Celebrations and sending Black FAA
employees to SPA RESORTS on the
American tax dime, who has the time for staffing critical
functions like technicians and controllers?

Kissing the Black and Female and Homosexual Ass must come
first in the new Diversity brainwashed "Get rid of white
males" FAA

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,212341,00.html

Here is some more of your FAA tax money at work
The FAA "Paid for this" with YOUR Tax money

http://www.nbcfae.org/2006AnnualTraining.htm


But, the FAA can't afford to adequately staff
control towers.

I wonder why??

Sure the FAA is short staffed on controllers - no one is arguing that
issue. But people with their shorts in a knot about short staffing
should not confuse pilot error as somehow being caused by that short
staffing or FAA staffing issues as being the cause of this accident.

The NTSB taxied another Comair bird out to both 22 and 26 on Monday
during the dark to observe exactly what the aircrew saw. They haven't
announced those findings yet and probably won't for a while, but they
couldn't help but notice that there were no lights on runway 26 and
there were on runway 22.

Turns out the co-pilot had approx 3500 hours in type as a 1st officer
(kind of high not to be captain isn't it?) and the captain had only been
in to LEX six times in the preceding 24 months -- last time was in June
this year.

The aircrew wasn't having a good day to start with: they started
pre-flighting the wrong aircraft and the maintenance crew had to point
them to the one they were to fly.

No evidence of an airport diagram available in the cockpit at the time
of the accident and they departed on an unlit runway. Captain taxied to
the runway and 1st officer executed the takeoff.

Somehow, I don't think it is the FAA's lack of staffing or controllers'
long work hours that caused this accident.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not saying controllers are not in short supply
or not overworked. I am saying that those making arguments about the two
issues being the cause of the LEX accident are doing a disservice to the
controllers --

BTW, reading the Fox article which did not contain the inflammatory or
bigoted comments offered by A1A pointed out that the article was
triggered by inoperative approach radar that the manager refused to have
repaired until regular working hours. To have it repaired when it failed
would have resulted in 2 hours of overtime. We don't know all the
factors bearing on the manager's decision, but traffic load and weather
surely could have been two. It was also reported that the LEX approach
control radar is not located in the tower cab, so even if there had been
two controllers on duty, would both have been upstairs?

No one on the net seems to be shining the light on Comair (the FAA is
more fun to hate I guess), but shouldn't the LEX Comair workers have
been alerted when the aircrew couldn't find the right aircraft?
Shouldn't the dispatcher in LEX have checked and supplied an airport
diagram if needed? Knowing the captain hadn't been into LEX in the last
60 days, and only 6 times in the preceding 24 months, shouldn't the
dispatcher have been very thorough in providing information. Knowing
that airport construction had recently taken place (since the captain
had last been to LEX), shouldn't the dispatcher and aircrew have been
even more sensitized to safety items?

Sure, the FAA will probably be listed as a contributing factor, but
let's face it. The pilot in command screwed up and the 1st officer
didn't catch it. Those two individuals were the ones pushing on the
go-fast levers.

The AOPA's current safety seminars are focused on the chain of events
leading up to an accident. There is rarely a single factor or incident
that can be blamed for the event. That is the case here at LEX. Let's
quit trying to blame the accident at LEX on the FAA. It seems to me they
are way down the list of culpable suspects who all share the blame.