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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...FAA officials very likely would have continued with their charade if not for a phone call to my home late in the week after the ValuJet crash. An anonymous FAA employee had tracked me down through a reporter. I needed to know, the voice said nervously, that in the days after Weintrob grilled the Atlanta inspectors about ValuJet, the Atlanta staff took a good look at the airline. Ten days later, they put their fears in writing to headquarters. Did I understand? the caller demanded. The field staff in Atlanta had recommended in February that ValuJet be grounded. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...person on the line had just left the FAA building to call and tell me that one of the FAA associate administrators had gone into his office for a meeting to discuss the secret memo. He had the memo with him right now, the caller insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...dialed the Inspector General's investigations office. "Send an investigator with a subpoena over" to the FAA, I demanded. For once, government wheels turned quickly, and the investigator rushed to the FAA. The meeting was already over, though, and FAA officials said they knew nothing about the memo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...next morning, the FAA called a press conference to offhandedly release a tall stack of ValuJet documents. Buried in the middle was the innocuous-looking report from the Atlanta staff. I practically lunged at the copy handed to me. Skimming several pages on Valujet's troubles, I stopped short at the field inspectors' bombshell: that "consideration should be given to an immediate FAR-121 recertification of this airline." Official FAA jargon, yes, but the meaning was clear: ground ValuJet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...memo from the field, written three months before the May 11 crash, proved highly embarrassing to the FAA and helped force the agency to re-evaluate its self-assured contention that ValuJet was a "safe airline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

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