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Inspector General employees have been barred from talking to the press. The office will no longer get involved in Department of Transportation or FAA policy issues, even though the Inspector General's Act says that is one of the office's purposes. Safety issues are now beyond the scope of the Inspector General's office...
...FAA wanted peace with the Inspector General and the NTSB, but it wanted harmony by persuading us to lay off, to leave its officials to do their jobs as they always had. Planes are not falling out of the sky, the FAA kept saying. Aircraft are not crashing. Stated over and over, this agency mantra was a blanket justification for business as usual...
...fact, planes were falling out of the sky. After I resigned, I tried to get one final piece of information out of the FAA that had mystified me for years: the monetary value of human life...
...know very well what you mean," an FAA public-affairs official said in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, "but I don't think you're going to get that from us. Do you expect anybody here to say what is the value we give to human life and then sign off on it and be left open to ridicule for the rest of our lives?" The question angered the official, and the request was denied...
...truth is, no one needs government officials to put a dollar value on his or her life or on the lives of loved ones. We consider ourselves priceless. So should the FAA...