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National Airspace System (NAS) isn’t as safe as the FAA would have you believe
NASA, with the help of it’s Aviation Safety Reporting System
(ASRS), a few thousand interviews and $8,500,000 dollars has collected a stockpile of evidence that the National Airspace System (NAS) isn’t as safe as the FAA would have you believe. The media is catching on. Officials at NASA are engaged in damage control, and well they should be. The federal aeronautics and space agency has risked its research credibility with its rationale for sitting on the findings of an air-safety survey that took years and $8.5 million to conduct. The Associated Press reported this week that NASA had rejected its request for data regarding the agency’s interviews with 24,000 commercial and private pilots. The NASA explanation for withholding the findings cited the potential detriment to the welfare of the airline industry and public confidence in the aviation system. Was it the idea, then, to maintain false confidence in aviation safety by suppressing disturbing findings? The agency’s chief administrator has since declared NASA never would put industry profits ahead of issues of public safety. If so, trying to keep a close secret was not the smartest way to project public safety as first priority. …The information gleaned by the Associated Press suggests the pilot survey revealed more problems and dangerous incidents than are reported to the Federal Aviation Administration and other government agencies. …NASA’s decision to sit on the findings is all the more disturbing because the information would be an invaluable addition to other well-documented concerns. Among these are congested airways, outmoded equipment and a shortage of experienced air-traffic controllers. |
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National Airspace System (NAS) isn’t as s afe as the FAA would have you believe
HilldaBeast wrote in news:uf6_i.958$8x6.464
@newsfe02.lga: NASA, with the help of it’s Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS), a few thousand interviews and $8,500,000 dollars has collected a stockpile of evidence that the National Airspace System (NAS) isn’t as safe as the FAA would have you believe. The media is catching on. The FAA never told me it's safer than I thought it was. that makes you a liar. Bertie |
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National Airspace System (NAS) isn’t as safe as the FAA would have you believe
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:31:21 -0500, HilldaBeast
wrote in : Was it the idea, then, to maintain false confidence in aviation safety by suppressing disturbing findings? It appears that the "idea" was to refrain from releasing misleading data: http://technology.newscientist.com/c...ty-survey.html The agency commissioned a telephone pollster to ask 29,000 pilots about their near misses, runway collisions and technical problems. At first, the poll seemed to show that these events had previously been alarmingly under-reported. Engine failures, for instance, were cited in NASA's survey at four times the rate recorded in the Federal Aviation Administration's incident records. The problem is that NASA appears to have counted some incidents more than once. Pilots were given anonymity, so NASA can't tell when several reports of an incident refer to the same event. Explaining the gaffe to the House Committee on Science and Technology on 31 October, NASA chief Mike Griffin admitted the figures were "simply not credible". "NASA can't tell when several reports refer to the same event" |
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