Update: FAA investigators testify
Two whistleblowers and four other Federal Aviation Administration inspectors testified Thursday that the FAA looked the other way as Southwest Airlines missed inspections on some of its planes. According to a report in USA Today, the testimony included allegations of attempts at revenge, orders to destroy incriminating documents and suspicion of a conspiracy that ran all the way to the FAA’s Washington headquarters. Said Rep. James Oberstar, D-Minn, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, “”If this was a grand jury proceeding, I think it would result in an indictment.”
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