NASA Airline Safety Project Update

NASA blows millions on flawed airline safety survey, New Scientist

“Has NASA wasted $11.3 million on a flawed survey of airline safety? likely. 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.”