NASA Says Study All But Worthless
Ok, I'm totally confused here. All the data that they've gathered over all these years by talking to these evil pilots that of course everyone knows are simply incapable of reporting things that have happened to them, is just utterly useless. No, the traveling public may not be interested in any of this, but other pilots, the NTSB, and the FAA SHOULD be. This is stuff that should be addressed. In my less than 1500 hours flying, I've had several close calls and encounters that ATC either directly caused or could have prevented. Why aren't we taking this information and working together to find solutions?
NASA Says Study All But Worthless:
Well, suppose they held an aviation safety study and nobody (except, perhaps, one particularly ticked off news agency) cared? NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told a news conference today that it has no intention of trying to glean anything meaningful from a four-year, $11.3 million survey of pilots on air safety and that if anyone else wants to wade through the 16,000 pages of gap-filled responses they're welcome to. Oh, and he doesn't expect them to find anything. "It's hard for me... to see any data here that the traveling public would care about or ought to care about." he told puzzled reporters who thought they might be covering a press conference about aviation safety. Instead they witnessed the political lid being firmly closed on an issue that has dogged NASA for two months and which Griffin clearly wanted no more part of. The release of the data came after a heavily publicized series of stories by the Associated Press on NASA's refusal to release the documents under a freedom of information request. The normally staid news agency made it clear it was less than satisfied with the culmination of its investigation.