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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.

NTSB chair Jennifer Homedy said the FAA supervisor "elbowed an employee midsentence during the AA 5342 hearing today, and the employee stopped speaking"
Literally, physically ELBOWED them in an NTSB proceeding with the chairwoman present… Are we living in a fucking cartoon?
The browbeating Homedy gave the FAA says it all. Trump’s FAA lobotomy and FAA inaction directly contributed to those 67 deaths. Then, after the crash they went ahead with the cuts anyways.
Remember what happened the last time the FAA sewed its lips to the corporate asshole?

Aviation, food safety, where does the protection of the common pleb end? It’s getting close.
I can’t figure how airlines and aviation sector don’t see that this undermines trust in their services and products. Means less people flying, less people working. It’s like watching someone turn out all the lights and you know they will be the first to say hey why can’t everyone see?
- They just dont care is how, they literally dont care. They just want money at the expense of human lives.
  
  That's what we're saying, they'll be getting less money because of this. It doesn't make sense.
- Close? No, it's here and now. We're literally watching it happen.
- With respect, I believe you meant "fewer", but they clearly view us all as lessers, so that works as well. 😅
  
  The higher, the fewer.