NASA’s air-safety project criticized
A government watchdog office sharply criticized NASA for abandoning a massive air-safety survey project without publicizing its purpose or results. NASA’s inspector general said
the agency should interpret and analyze the results of its interviews with some 30,000 pilots, but NASA in a written response continued to reject that idea, saying that the interviews, which ran from 2001 to 2004, were less relevant with the passage of time, reports the Associated Press. The program came to light when NASA last fall rejected an Associated Press request for the results, stating that disclosing the information could have a negative effect on airline profits and public confidence in the air lines. Congress launched an investigation, and NASA’s own inspector general began its audit. According to the report, the audit criticized the way the project was run from the beginning and that posting partial results online did not help the public understand the project.
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