Southwest Airlines - Safety Scandal
Mar 12th, 2008, 05:48 PM
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diann24: <i>All this might be true and I myself have worked for a large company for over 20 years. The #1 defense contractor in the U.S. I just have to wonder why SW was being targeted when there are so many other airlines out there. I happen to love SW. I fly it reguarly I just wonder if they have had the luck of the Irish, or what since they haven't had any serious crashes. or was the FAA bored and had nothing else to do with there spare time? </i>
It sounds to me that there are some politics involved. Congress has been looking into this stuff so the FAA doesn't want to look bad. Granted, Southwest <i>should</i> be fined because there were violations. But Southwest seems to think that because they <i>voluntarily</i> told the FAA (immediately) about their own lapse last year that they shouldn't be so harshly penalized and they have been fighting the FAA on this.
While I'm certainly not <i>thrilled</i> that Southwest missed inspecting these planes over that period of time, at least the company has been proactive and voluntarily disclosing things to the FAA, voluntarily grounding planes to re-inspect them, etc. as opposed to being evasive and having violations caught by the FAA.
I don't know if Southwest is being made an example of or not. I don't know what the situation is at the other airlines, either, since as I said all of this came about due to what Southwest themselves revealed to the FAA. I do have a feeling that this isn't the last airline that will be in the headlines soon for safety violations by the FAA.
It sounds to me that there are some politics involved. Congress has been looking into this stuff so the FAA doesn't want to look bad. Granted, Southwest <i>should</i> be fined because there were violations. But Southwest seems to think that because they <i>voluntarily</i> told the FAA (immediately) about their own lapse last year that they shouldn't be so harshly penalized and they have been fighting the FAA on this.
While I'm certainly not <i>thrilled</i> that Southwest missed inspecting these planes over that period of time, at least the company has been proactive and voluntarily disclosing things to the FAA, voluntarily grounding planes to re-inspect them, etc. as opposed to being evasive and having violations caught by the FAA.
I don't know if Southwest is being made an example of or not. I don't know what the situation is at the other airlines, either, since as I said all of this came about due to what Southwest themselves revealed to the FAA. I do have a feeling that this isn't the last airline that will be in the headlines soon for safety violations by the FAA.
