In a victory for airline pilots, the government has acknowledged
that regulations it had issued in January 2003 allowing it to
revoke the licenses of pilots suspected of being security threats
cannot be lawfully enforced.
"We are quite
pleased with the outcome. The 'guilty until proven innocent'
attitude toward U.S. pilots that was embodied in the regulations,
and which the government has now been forced to abandon, is simply
unacceptable. Guaranteeing due process under the law is a
cornerstone of our country's legal system."
Source: Captain Duane E. Woerth,
president of ALPA, commenting on the successful legal challenge of
TSA regulations that had been dubbed the "Pilot Insecurity Rules,"
and which a judge has now declared unenforceable.
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