UPDATE:FAA Whistle-Blowers Threatened Over Southwest Warnings

[Omaha Steve]

Source: DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Two Federal Aviation Administration inspectors were threatened with dismissal when they tried to bring safety violations at Southwest Airlines (LUV) to the attention of FAA managers, they told a House Transportation committee hearing Thursday.

Douglas Peters, an FAA aviation safety inspectors, became emotional as he recounted how the acting manager of the FAA office charged with overseeing FAA, picked up a framed picture of Peters' family as he delivered the threat to himself and his wife, also an FAA employee.

"'You have a good job here and your wife has a good job over at the Dallas ( FAA flight standards office). I'd hate to see you jeopardize yours and her careers trying to take down a couple of losers,'" Peters said he was told by Bobby Hedlund, the Acting Manager of FAA's Southwest Certificate Management Office.

Peters and Charalambe Bobby Boutris, another inspector who was part of FAA's Southwest Airlines team in 2007, said they believe officials in FAA headquarters also deliberately looked the other way with respect to their reports of record- keeping and safety violations at Southwest.


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[hobbit709]

1. The mantra of the bush regime

"The public be damned, corporate profit is God"

[kestrel91316]

2. WTF??

".......I'd hate to see you jeopardize yours and her careers trying to take down a couple of LOSERS......"

Oh, ok, I get it. People are supposed to rat out the GOOD employees who are actually DOING their jobs properly.

Silly me, thinking we should go after people who AREN'T doing their jobs.

[Elspeth]

5. Add a gun and it's a mob shakedown

,,

[DeepModem Mom]

3. K&R!

[libnnc]

4. kick