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...announced a plan to overhaul the entire air-traffic-control system. Four years later, nothing had been done. "The air-traffic system is overloaded," declared Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota. It was the fall of 1985 when he demanded that the FAA begin dealing with the atc dinosaur. But he would fail to hold the agency's feet to the fire, and his House Aviation Subcommittee would allow the FAA to waste hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade of time...
...agency embarked on a massive effort to design, buy and install a series of complex, computerized systems to replace the straining, watchful eyes and reflexes of the air-traffic-control workers. These were going to be cutting-edge, glittering new systems--the newest generation of whiz-bang electronics, avionics, software and hardware, many of them custom-designed to keep up to date with the needs and desires of American aviation...
...danger posed by the outdated air-traffic-control system is compounded by a shortage of the special radar needed to help planes cope with bad weather...
Time and again, my office uncovered practices that would shock the public: sloppy inspections of planes, perfunctory review of pilots, lax oversight of airline procedures, disregard for bogus airplane parts, sievelike security at airports, antiquated air-traffic-control systems. Only with a major crash, only with people dead and sobbing survivors filling television screens, does the FAA step up to the plate and make changes. I found the FAA's complacency toward accidents difficult to accept...
...officials, I realized there was no charitable way to characterize what they were doing--they were simply lying to the public about ValuJet's record. It was not the first time I had seen the department react to a plane crash with a blitz of political spin control. But this time their overstatement and vehemence left me outraged...