Aero-News: Quote of the Day

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"When the public pays for five years of government work designed to help us improve flying safety, I think the public deserves to get a report back on what was learned. NASA won't do the work, so I am asking the GAO to bring back some answers to the committee that we can then share with the country."

Source: Congressman Bart Gordon (D-TN). This week, Gordon called on the Government Accountability Office to look into the results from over 24,000 interviews with pilots, conducted over four years under NASA oversight as part of the National Aviation Operations Monitoring System (NAOMS) project.

FMI: www.nasa.gov/news/reports/NAOMS.html, www.faa.gov, www.gao.gov, http://gordon.house.gov/