Southwest Airlines Incident Highlights Cracks In Federal Oversight
In a report that received limited attention when it was released in December, the Transportation Department's inspector general raised questions about the Federal Aviation Administration's safety checks of airliners. According to the report, the agency had failed to perform on-time inspections of the major airlines in more than 300 instances [PDF] between fiscal years 2005 and 2009. Full Story »
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