Air Safety Survey: Things That Don't Worry Mike Griffin Worry Me
NASA Releases Heavily-Redacted Airline Safety Study, Washington Post
“NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told reporters in a conference call that the agency had no plans to study the database for trends. He said NASA conducted the survey only to determine whether gathering information from pilots in such a way was worthwhile. Despite the lack of analysis by NASA scientists, Griffin said there was nothing in the database that should concern air travelers. “It’s hard for me to see any data the traveling public would care about or ought to care about,” he said. “We were asked to release the data and we did.”
Editor’s note: With regard to Mike Griffin’s comment “It’s hard for me to see any data the traveling public would care about or ought to care about.” I am really wondering if Griffin even read these documents. I can’t imagine that he’d be so dismissive if he had. Given his snooty, aloof remarks, I doubt that he even bothered to do so.
Oh yes – why is Aeronautics AA Lisa Porter so utterly silent about all of this ?
Below are some of the more troubling comments in this survey – I went through this one section and highlighted the ones that caught my eye. I am part of “the traveling public” and this stuff certainly troubles me.
“Section D – a brief set of questions designed to elicit respondent feedback on the interview experience. Note: The responses to free text narrative questions D3A and D5 were disaggregated from the parent survey responses and were subsequently randomized.”
- IT’S TAKING OVER 3 YEARS FOR NASA TO FIGURE OUT THERE ARE NO SAFETY PROBLEMS?
- I HOPE I WILL BE ABLE TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY.
- PUT SURVEY ON INTERNET AND IT WOULD BE MORE BENEFICIAL FOR SURVEY
- I’M GRATEFUL THAT YOU GUYS ARE INVOLVED IN THIS. FOR YEARS WE HAVE TRUSTED NASA TO DEAL FAIRLY WITH SAFETY ISSUES.
- ASK ABOUT MAINTENANCE AND DEFERRED PLANES; A MECHANIC SAID “I’M NOT HERE TO FIX IT, JUST TO DEFER IT.”
- THE SECURITY PROBLEMS IN THE AIRPORTS. THEY ARE FIGHTING THE WRONG PROBLEMS. IT IS NOT THE PILOTS. PILOTS NEED TO BE ARMED. THEY HAVE AN UNUSAL AMOUNT OF SECURITY PROCEDURES FOR THE PILOTS YET NOBODY TALKS ABOUT SECURITY PROCEDURES FOR MECHANICS.
- ATC GIVES PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO CERTAIN AIRLINES, NAMELY [AIRLINE A] AND PILOTS CONSIDER THAT UNFAIR AND UNSAFE.
- PILOTS NEEDS TO MAKE THE SURVEY QUESTIONS, BECAUSE THESE QUESTIONS ARE STUPID, AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE DESK NEED TO BE DOING THE SURVEY.
- BANKRUTPCY AND FINANCIAL LIABILITY. NEW HIRE QUALIICATIONS. PILOT COMPENSATION FOR LESS EXPERIENCED PEOPLE.
- ATC SYSTEM CAN’T HANDLE NUMBER OF FLIGHTS 2 YEARS AGO
