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Robert Sturgell, Acting Director of FAA, Interviewed on The News Hour

April 10, 2008

Interviewed tonight on The News Hour, Robert Sturgell of the FAA said there had been a two-fold breakdown between the FAA and Southwest Airlines.  That’s what led to this massive re-inspection process.
Now, Sturgell says that we have the safest airlines in the world.  (That’s why so many are grounded, I guess.)  He said air worthiness [...]

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The High Cost of Negligence, Incompetence, and Cancellation of Flights

April 10, 2008

Who knows how much American Airlines spending and losing to do something right?  Wouldn’t it have been easier and far less costly and less inconvenient to have done it right the first time?
The FAA started the snowball rolling down the hill by failing the American citizens.  But, in reality American Airlines and the others affected [...]

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FAA Whistleblowers Put the Fear of God (or Fines) in Airlines

April 9, 2008

Well, let’s hear it for the whistleblowers.  Their testimony last week before Congress must have put the fear of God in the airlines.  American Airlines canceled over 1,000 flights today, with more to come tomorrow.  All this is an effort to catch up on inspections that have gone undone and without notice until a few [...]

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