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'Not gonna put up with that': FAA hearing gets tense after employee elbowed into silence

www.rawstory.com 'Not gonna put up with that': FAA hearing gets tense after employee elbowed into silence

A National Transportation Safety Board hearing over the deadly Washington, D.C. plane crash has uncovered startling revelations in the past two days, but one supervisor at the Federal Aviation Administration was reprimanded during a discussion and required to move his seat to distance himself from a...

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the NTSB chair has been going after the FAA, saying that the FAA failed to adhere to 15,000 close call warnings at Reagan National Airport between planes and choppers, failed to act, failed to move the helicopter route so that there would not be a disaster. Failed to listen to controllers who warned of a possible disaster. And she says the FAA has been dragging its feet and not cooperating in this investigation.
This is precisely why the FAA and NTSB are two separate agencies: When you're looking into why a crash happened, it often develops that the FAA wasn't doing some things it should have been doing. And, of course, if the FAA was investigating itself, it would be tempted to downplay how that happened or how big a deal it was. Since it's a totally separate organization that does investigations as the one that enforces airline safety day-to-day, though, they can just state the facts and if it hurts someone's feelings or career prospects, oh well.
It's a leftover from an earlier and more honorable time in American governance.
- It's a leftover from an earlier and more honorable time in American governance.
  Oof... Yeah that's about right.
  
  Factually correct, but let's not pretend previous governments gave a hoot about honorable conduct and integrity beyond appearances. So maybe it's more accurate to call it simply a less dysfunctional time in US-American governance.
  
  You really think the country has been this fucked up the whole time? You think this isn't new? Don't kid yourself, it has not "always been like this". They want you to forget, they want you to accept this as normal...
  THIS IS NOT NORMAL
  The current administration of this country is a bizarre, grotesque aberration. If this were normal, there wouldn't be so much to ruin.
  
  Are you really gonna make me list all the heinous shit the US has done and worked to normalize before Trump?
  No this isn't normal. But wasn't before either. Now a lot of people in the US are no longer in a position to pretend otherwise. And if there's anything good that could come out of the Trump administration, it's that those people might start to understand the meaning of solidarity.

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