The FAA got slapped down for ignoring the warnings of an air-traffic controller about the risks of mid-air collisions at Memphis and then for retaliating against the controller who went to the NTSB when the FAA did nothing about it.
Don Brown at Get the Flick has the story. Besides settling with the controller, the FAA eventually changed the procedures at Memphis.
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EBM,
Just because I know you have some animal lovers here....
Check out this blog about Peter from awhile back. Turn in an FAA manager for an unsafe procedure and he'll try to take your dog !
http://www.faafollies.com/?p=147
You've got to ask yourself a couple of questions. Who got fired for jeopardizing safety ? Who got fired for trying to silence the guy that was trying to protect the pubic's safety ?
They ought to fire these guys for sheer stupidity.
Don Brown
Do You Speak EEL?: Translating FAA Bobby Sturgell - PART III
http://ejectsturgell.blogspot.com/2008/11/do-you-speak-eel-translating-faa-bobby_30.html
Exiting FAA Acting Administrator Bobby Sturgell: “You’ll notice I’m throwing lots of new runways, equipment, money, jobs, acronyms, programs, kudos, and concocted self-serving study “results” at communities right before I get chucked out of office. That’s on purpose. The concocted study results are a translucent attempt to make me appear to have actually been a regulator, rather than a simple aeromercantile shill. The runways, programs, and other rewards are called ‘bribes’. They are intended to buy the silence and cooperation of those that receive them. As for the other folks, I’ll just abuse them. For fun, I once again will try to blame Air Traffic Controllers, pilots, Congress, co-workers, community residents, Israel, India, the Philippines, potash miners, unions, Mother Nature, and even my economic co-conspirators the airlines on my way out the door, for all of my own failures. The remaining other folks, well, I’ll just tell FAA ‘Safety Officer’ Nick Sabatini to intimidate. My best strategy is comprised of the bribes, though. This provides me job security in the private sector for years to come, and might make everybody forget those 3,500-and-climbing aviation fatalities that occurred on my FAA watch”.
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.com/2008/10/failed-faa-pilot-bobby-sturgell-racks.html
http://www.bobbysturgell.net
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