Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"The Global Discovery program has missed every intended delivery date since the ATR 500 was purchased in September 2008, cost nearly 4 times its original anticipated amount of $22 million, and is currently in an un-flyable state. The aircraft has never flown in Afghanistan as originally intended and, because the DEA removed all aviation operations from Afghanistan in July 2015, it likely never will. Moreover, despite the DEA’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, as of March 2016, the DOD continued to spend appropriated funds in an effort to make the aircraft operational and flyable."

Source: Excerpt from a Justice Department Office of Inspector General Report on the Drug Enforcement Agency's Global Discovery Program. The audit was triggered by a whistleblower report.

FMI: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/a1616.pdf