FAA-ilure

[hockeybeat]

It's good to know that the organization that monitors air safety is in bed the airlines.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/08/america/FAA-Misleading-Testimony.php

The two FAA inspectors who exposed maintenance and inspection problems at Southwest Airlines were at the center of last week's hearing. They told lawmakers their jobs were threatened and their reports of noncompliance were ignored for years by superiors.

Committee Chairman Oberstar of Minnesota said then that as long as the FAA viewed the airlines as customers "that culture of safety will not take hold and is not going to permeate the organization." Sabatini assured the committee he would immediately work to correct that internal problem of perception.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23999441/

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=165748&title=airplane

 

[Football_Bat]

This came up a month ago when the Southwest inspection thing first broke.

Hope you're not flying American through D/FW today. The FAA has grounded 500 flights because the airline couldn't get all their MD-80s inspected in the two weeks the FAA gave them.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Heckuva job, Sabatini.

 

[spnited]

One of our guys got stranded in San Antonio after the Final Four when his flight was cancelled.

 

[lono]

One of our guys got stranded in San Antonio after the Final Four when his flight was cancelled.

I'm stuck, too, hoping to leave today at 5:30 p.m., instead of 9:20 a.m. as originally scheduled.

 

[trifectarich]

Is it any wonder the airlines have a lower approval rating than Bush and Cheney? On the other hand, I guess we've all been rather fortunate that we haven't seen a higher number of crashes and real emergencies because of these problems.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Is it any wonder the airlines have a lower approval rating than Bush and Cheney? On the other hand, I guess we've all been rather fortunate that we haven't seen a higher number of crashes and real emergencies because of these problems.

We haven't seen them because the "problems" that are grounding the planes aren't going to cause the planes to crash.

 

[lono]

**** the airlines.

**** the FAA

That is all.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Just got back from the airport.
Unshirted hell is breaking loose.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Just got back from the airport.
Unshirted hell is breaking loose.

Dogs and cats living together?

 

[cougargirl]

When it comes to customer service, the airlines are the least sympathetic. By miles.

 

[thegrifter]

Wondering if American will hook me up with a whole other airline for my flight on Saturday. Just don't see them getting a handle on this **** by then.

 

[deskslave]

Wondering if American will hook me up with a whole other airline for my flight on Saturday. Just don't see them getting a handle on this **** by then.

They might. Or you might be better off making a reservation on your own, hoping your flight does actually get canceled, and getting reimbursed that way.

 

[lono]

Wondering if American will hook me up with a whole other airline for my flight on Saturday. Just don't see them getting a handle on this **** by then.

They automatically moved me to another airline today and got me on the flight.

 

[dog428]

Might I just point out that this is about the ... oh, I don't know ... 20th or so government agency to completely **** the bed since our boy W has been in office?

If you're scoring at home, the FAA joins FEMA, the FDA, OSHA, Homeland Security, the EPA, the Ag Dept.'s Food Safety Agency, the Labor Dept.'s Mine Safety Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission as federal agencies to suffer from an embarrassing scandal or a monumental failure of duties in the last few years.

I'd love to hear someone defend this bull****. Look at the list of failures. Look at the history of appointments of unqualified leaders in these agencies. There's just no legitimate excuse for it.

We're flying on planes that haven't passed inspections. We're eating tainted meat. Our kids are playing with poisonous toys. We're sending workers off to mines and factories that are essentially coffins. And when **** goes massively wrong somewhere, no one from the federal gov't shows up for three ****in' days.

This is the last eight years around here.

 

[STLIrish]

Might I just point out that this is about the ... oh, I don't know ... 20th or so government agency to completely **** the bed since our boy W has been in office?

If you're scoring at home, the FAA joins FEMA, the FDA, OSHA, Homeland Security, the EPA, the Ag Dept.'s Food Safety Agency, the Labor Dept.'s Mine Safety Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission as federal agencies to suffer from an embarrassing scandal or a monumental failure of duties in the last few years.

I'd love to hear someone defend this bull****. Look at the list of failures. Look at the history of appointments of unqualified leaders in these agencies. There's just no legitimate excuse for it.

We're flying on planes that haven't passed inspections. We're eating tainted meat. Our kids are playing with poisonous toys. We're sending workers off to mines and factories that are essentially coffins. And when **** goes massively wrong somewhere, no one from the federal gov't shows up for three ****in' days.

This is the last eight years around here.

That's because "government" is bad. And "the free market" is good. Remember? Who wants all those pesky bureaucrats getting fat off our tax dollars and regulating our economy to death?
Oh, right, the rest of us who actually have to live in this country.