[zipper]

Too often true. The FAA often seems to be more of an advocate of short-term airline profits than advocates of public safety.

Some of it happened at Colgan Air, and the FAA is plenty interested now, only because the public is interested.

WASHINGTON — The co-pilot of the commuter plane that crashed last February near Buffalo said shortly before takeoff that she felt so ill that she would have called in sick had she not just flown across country to report to work, according to data released Monday by investigators.

Co-pilot, Rebecca Shaw, 24, could be heard sniffling and sneezing during the two hours before the Feb. 12 crash that killed all 49 people aboard the flight and one person on the ground, said an expanded National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) transcript of the cockpit recording.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-27-buffalo-plane-crash_N.htm

[parsifal]

Thank you for being honest, and even when you dislike the source, having the courage to look at the evidence.

parsy, who wishes there was more of this

[CharlesWayneCT]

But it doesn’t say that she was forced to work sick. It says that she used bad judgment because she had already flown across the country. My guess is the flight was going to get her back toward home.