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  • FAA romance led to $970 million contract award, 3,300-percent increase in air traffic control errors

    10/20/2011 8:57:40 AM PDT · by martosko · 16 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 10/20/2011 | Matthew Boyle
    A recent spike in air traffic control errors is likely attributable to a change in the Federal Aviation Administration’s chosen contractor for training air traffic controllers, The Daily Caller has learned. That change was likely the result of an government contracting shuffle orchestrated by an FAA official and her lover -- a former FAA official who worked for Raytheon at the time the contract was awarded. Raytheon won the contract, worth nearly $1 billion. Potentially deadly aircraft incidents attributable to control tower mistakes have increased dramatically in recent years. Professor Jack Williams of Georgia State University told The Daily Caller...