Congress Dictating Airline Safety Matters
Replacing FAA Responsibilities

The House aviation committee on July 29, 2009, introduced a bill to allegedly improve airline safety. Comments from an aviation old timer and former FAA airline operations inspector:

• By law, it has been the responsibility of the people in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to make these decisions. There is a small number of former professional airline pilots and military pilots that had the background, the competency, and the responsibility, to determine safety problems and recommend corrective actions (that are rarely taken by FAA management).
   
• The reason why a half century of preventable airline disasters have occurred, and why the easily accomplished measures to prevent airliners from being hijacked, are the following continuing problems:
   
  • Political patronage places unqualified people in key safety positions.
     
  • To gain political points, unqualified female, black, or other people are placed in key safety positions.
     
  • The practice exists in the FAA is the standard practice of one section in the FAA to get rid of an incompetent manager by promoting the person to a higher position of authority in some other section of the FAA. The next section then has the problem.
     
  • The practice of one incompetent manager promoting another incompetent person, that does not create any waves.
     
• The proposal by the House committee is standard window dressing that has been repeated over and over again for the past half century. The comments are those of amateurs that have no idea of the problems in the FAA−or are covering up for them.

How does this affect the air traveler? In the book, Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, by former FAA inspector Rodney Stich, provides overwhelming evidence of the consequences:

• Everyone that flies is subject to the danger of aviation disasters occurring.
   
• Thousands of people perishing in preventable and forewarned airline disasters in the United States since 1950.The seemingly every few month series of airline disasters have been greatly reduced, due to conditions the circumvented the internal FAA problems. But preventable airline disasters continue to occur.
   
• The primary blame for the hijackings of four airliners on September 11, 2001, was with the people in the government agency responsible for ordering the known measures that would have prevented each of the four airliners from being hijacked: and that was the FAA, a matter that has been carefully withheld from the American people by the lapdog and sometimes paid media people, by the 9/11 Commission, and by members of Congress.
   
• Further blame lies with the public−and most of the airline crewmembers−who chose to remain ignorant of the problems exposed by a few insiders.

Further information at www.unfriendlyskies.com.

For those who want to know about the criminal aspect to the 9/11 hijackings, check www.defraudingamerica.com, and read the book, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, Mafia, and al Qaeda, available at amazon.com in print and e-book format, and elsewere.

Have a nice flight!