FAA Thumped again

No big surprise here. The politically Correct destruction of once was a
proud professional organization is evident. Rather than Air Safety, Gay
Pride celebrations and promoting unqualified minorities into management
is the new priority of the "Politically Correct misaligned unsafe FAA"

I trust my IFR skills but I am not so sure any longer of the
organization that "supposedly" protects our nations air safety. I
believe the FAA is a disaster waiting to happen.

We have lost 2 out of 5 Space Shuttles I believe due to PC nonsense in
NASA. You know, the demeaning and ambivalent treatment of the technical
skills in favor of PC doctrine and feel good politics.

The FAA is the same ticking time bomb

Maybe a Mid-Air over Kansas between two "Heavys" with around 700 on
board that drops body parts and flaming wreckage for 50 square miles
will get someones attention and push the FAA back toward it's mission of
Air Safety rather than Gay Pride Celebrations.


NEW YORK — Federal Aviation Administration officials received 52
warnings prior to Sept. 11, 2001, from their own security experts about
potential Al Qaeda attacks, including some that mentioned airline
hijackings or suicide attacks, The New York Times reported.

The Times said in Thursday editions that a previously undisclosed report
by the 9/11 commission that investigated the hijack attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon detailed warnings given to FAA leaders
from April to Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terrorist group
and its leader, Usama bin Laden .

The commission report, written last August, said five security warnings
mentioned Al Qaeda's training for hijackings and two reports concerned
suicide operations not connected to aviation.

The Times said that a classified version and a partially declassified
version of the 120-page report were given to the National Archives
(search) two weeks ago. The Times story cited the declassified version
of the document.

Al Felzenberg, former spokesman for the 9/11 commission, which went out
of business last summer, said the government had not completed review of
the report for declassification purposes until recently. He said the
Justice Department delivered the two versions of the document to the
Archives.

An Archives spokeswoman said the unclassified version of the document
was not yet available Wednesday night.

The Times gave these highlights from the commission report:

Aviation officials were "lulled into a false sense of security" and
"intelligence that indicated a real and growing threat leading up to
9/11 did not stimulate significant increases in security procedures."

It takes the FAA to task for not expanding the use of in-flight air
marshals or tightening airport screening for weapons. It said FAA
officials were more concerned with reducing airline congestion,
lessening delays and easing air carriers' financial problems than
thwarting a terrorist attack.

Information in this report was available to members of the 9/11
commission when they issued their public report last summer. That report
itself contained criticisms of FAA operations.