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With regard to jet engines, Welch said GE notified the Federal Aviation Administration about an employee's safety concerns in 1992, before the engineer went to the FBI as a whistle-blower. The FAA and the Defense Department investigated, Welch said, and found no problem. "So far on this one, everything appears fine," he adds. "Air Force One has those engines. The President is flying everywhere with them. And everyone feels comfortable...
Geraldine Frankoski, director of the Aviation Consumer Action Program, points out what she considers to be a built-in conflict of interest at the FAA that works to the detriment of safety. By law, she notes, the FAA is responsible for fostering and promoting civil aviation, a mandate that includes safeguarding the financial health of airlines, "while also administering and regulating safety. They can't honestly do both...
Maybe not; perhaps the law should be changed to make the FAA stress safety above everything else. Doubtless the airline-safety record, good as it is, could be improved in other ways. But all such discussions keep coming back to a point conceded by some of the sharpest critics: a passenger runs a far greater risk of injury or death getting into a car to drive to an airport than he or she does boarding a plane once there...
Meanwhile, at the FAA...
...groped and ridiculed by female co-workers during a 1992 cultural-diversity training session. Air-traffic controller Douglas P. Hartman filed a $300,000 suit against the Transportation Department, claiming the agency had ignored his earlier complaints. "It was ugly. I was shocked. I was stunned," said Hartman. The FAA is dropping any sensitivity workshops that it believes could lead to future harassment lawsuits...