[Panzerlied]

Bush’s fault.

[GOP Poet]

Well lets hope both are now former FAA officials.

[Don Corleone]

Another reason NOT TO FLY!

[rockinqsranch]

It would have been most helpful to the readers of this article to have a listing of at least the top most egregious errors the article is about. Otherwise we have a couple of people getting married, and by doing so raising some eyebrows.

I’m concerned, but I don’t know about what.

[mikey_hates_everything]

"a former FAA official who worked for Raytheon at the time the contract was awarded. Raytheon won the contract, worth nearly $1 billion."

Imagine what that former federal employee is making now working for the contractor, before he probably got fired. This is going on all over--federal employees retiring and becoming overpaid contractors affiliated with the agency they retired from. But it's the federal salaries of people who stay with the gov't, trying to make it in the same region as these overpaid contractors, who are the problem and it's THEIR salaries and jobs that need to be cut, right? No one talks about the federal contractors who typically have more slots and are making much more almost across the board.

[oldbill]

At the senior management level, the FAA is a Peyton Place awash in incompetence.

Back in the Clinton years, the order when out to “increase opportunities for women and minorities who were underrepresented in the management ranks”.

As a result, women and minorities were dumped into the management positions regardless of ability or experience. White males were even told, off the record of course, that their career advancement is over.

The women and minorities who were then placed in the junior management positions have now advanced to the senior management positions. They haven’t gotten any smarter or wiser, just older. Not a few, perhaps including this woman, were bashful about using their sex (all interpretations) to advance their careers. And not a few developed political connections to further advance their careers of incompetence (remember Linda Daschle?).

[Major Matt Mason]

The FAA attributes the spike in errors to a new “self-reporting” system that encourages air traffic controllers to anonymously report their own mistakes.

Yeah, this worked out real well. What genius came up with this idea? Never let it be said that government bureaucrats are competent.

[bvw]

Another big reason to completely privatize or at least regionalize Air Traffic Control. Abolish the FAA and the TSA.