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Old October 23rd 07, 12:55 AM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
AirSafetyPatriot
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Default NASA exposes FAA(Update)

AirSafetyPatriot wrote:
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA
is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots
that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference
occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.

NASA gathered the information under an $8.5 million safety project,
through telephone interviews with roughly 24,000 commercial and general
aviation pilots over nearly four years. Since ending the interviews at
the beginning of 2005 and shutting down the project completely more than
one year ago, the space agency has refused to divulge the results
publicly.Just last week, NASA ordered the contractor that conducted the
survey to purge all related data from its computers.

The Associated Press learned about the NASA results from one person
familiar with the survey who spoke on condition of anonymity because
this person was not authorized to discuss them.

Anonymity?
"Purge" data from computers?
Do ya think there is a slight possibility the FAA is lying to the public?
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303841,00.html





Last week, NASA ordered the contractor that conducted the
survey to purge all related data from its computers.
Congress intervened Monday, saying it will launch a formal
investigation and instruct NASA to keep all its data.
Griffin said he already was ordering that all survey data be
preserved.