House Hearing Reveals ‘Startling Disclosures’ About Airline Safety
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.04.08 | 3:37 PM ET
The scary news out of yesterday’s House hearing: The “problems at Southwest were far more widespread than has previously been reported,” writes USA Today’s Alan Levin. Federal inspectors who tried to report safety issues, he reports, were “repeatedly thwarted by senior government officials from reporting critical problems that compromised the safety of passengers.”
Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), the chairman of the House committee that held hearings, said, “If this was a grand jury proceeding, I think it would result in an indictment.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Rosemarie Wartha 04.07.08 | 12:18 PM ET
I feel these senior government officials should be required to ride airlines at random intervals with no prior knowledge when or what airlines!!