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Aeronautics

Air Safety Survey Update: "contempt for the flying public"

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 7, 2008

Runaround on Air Safety, editorial, NY Times

“The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has grudgingly released data from a four-year survey of pilots about the safety of American aviation. The information was released the day before New Years, with no interpretation of the findings and in a format that is very difficult for outsiders to analyze. If the agency intended to show contempt for the flying public, it succeeded.”

Black Hole – What part of 16,208 pages from NASA is comprehensible?, editorial, Washington Post

“Release of the requested data, which are sensitive and safety-related, could materially affect the public confidence in, and the commercial welfare of, the air carriers and general aviation companies whose pilots participated in the survey,” wrote NASA associate administrator Thomas S. Luedtke. That rationale was beyond unacceptable. Mr. Griffin was right to reverse course and promise Congress that the data would be released by the end of the year. Who knew he would do it in such a snit?”

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