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...Another report that my office was preparing on FAA inspections was also killed. It was critical of the FAA because the agency had not made improvements in the terrible inspection system we had previously uncovered. Even though an assistant inspector general had already testified to Congress about this report, it was not issued...
...when ValuJet bid for a contract to ferry Defense Department personnel, Defense specialists had scrutinized ValuJet's books, inspected its facilities and talked to its pilots, mechanics and managers. The Defense Department had complaints about virtually everything, and its report was breathtaking in the scope of its condemnation. The answer: No contract. ValuJet is not good enough to fly our people...
...agitated, defensive voice, Pena said an FAA report proved that discount airlines were as safe as the major carriers. But Pena had to know this simply wasn't true. He was protecting an airline just the way government officials had for decades. In fact, the FAA had an avalanche of evidence that proved that ValuJet had been troubled for months and that other marginal airlines were just as unsafe. Conclusions from the report Pena referred to were etched into my memory. It revealed that the cumulative safety rate of discount carriers was skewed because one of them, Southwest...
...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...
...only a few hundred reports of bogus parts. Nevertheless, I knew each report could represent thousands of parts. The number of brokers, on the other hand, is unknown. The FAA says 2,000 to 5,000; some aviation-industry estimates put the number at 20,000. Nobody knows, because brokers are unlicensed, unregistered, untrained--and ungoverned by the FAA. They are the broken link in the FAA's regulatory chain. We found that bad brokers would simply close up shop, move to another building or town, and resume business under a new name...