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...studies of repair-station parts bins were mind boggling: 43% of the parts bought from manufacturers were bogus; a shocking 95% were fraudulent when they came from parts brokers. With brokers, the repair stations had very little chance of buying genuine parts. Again the FAA argued that the parts we found were authentic; they were just missing their labels...
...after three years of investigation and 160 convictions [of bogus-parts sellers], the FAA has made few substantial changes in parts oversight. It isn't against the law to make bogus parts; it is only illegal to claim falsely they are certified by the FAA...
...FAA announced a plan to overhaul the entire air-traffic-control system. Four years later, nothing had been done. "The air-traffic system is overloaded," declared Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota. It was the fall of 1985 when he demanded that the FAA begin dealing with the atc dinosaur. But he would fail to hold the agency's feet to the fire, and his House Aviation Subcommittee would allow the FAA to waste hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade of time...
Thirteen years and nearly $1 billion later, the FAA had to admit its ambitious program was an utter failure. In 1994, under Hinson, the program was canceled. In spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent and the manpower exerted, no new system had been produced, installed or was operating, and every attempt to see the program to its end only prolonged the disaster...
...FAA intended to build a custom computer network from the ground up and consolidate 230 terminal and en route centers into 23 facilities. The system was designed to be phased in over a 20-year period, in a building-block approach with five segments. Through all this, only the first segment, the least complex of all, has been partially completed. The FAA is still years away from fielding any major new equipment. Because of these delays, the FAA has had to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to keep the antiquated systems at terminal and en route centers...