GM Asks U.S. FAA to Bar Public Tracking of Leased Corporate Jet

[Are_grits_groceries]

Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., criticized by U.S. lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public’s ability to track a plane it uses.

“We availed ourselves of the option as others do to have the aircraft removed” from a Federal Aviation Administration tracking service, a GM spokesman, Greg Martin, said yesterday in an interview. He declined to discuss why GM made the request.

Flight data show that the leased Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV jet flew Nov. 18 from Detroit to Washington, where Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner Jr. spoke to a Senate committee that day and a House panel the next day on behalf of a $25 billion auto-industry rescue plan.
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An FAA spokeswoman, Laura Brown, said she couldn’t immediately determine whether her agency had granted GM’s flight-privacy request. “We do this routinely” for aircraft owners, she said yesterday. “They don’t have to have a reason” for requesting the block, she said.

The FAA tracking data don’t identify who is aboard the flights.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afrKemH3i.2Y&refer=home

Boohoo! They got caught so............

[tularetom]

1. Busted!

Assholes

[droidamus2]

2. So..

The lesson these dipshits learned from having Congress call them out on using private jets when coming to Washington to beg for money is not how bad it looks but that they shouldn't let people know they are using private jets. I say the first requirement for any 'bailout' of the big three is to can all three CEO's. (and for the fun of it make them fly home on Jet Blue)

[babylonsister]

3. Maybe they're afraid their trip to Cancun will be found out...

unless it wasn't them. Now I don't know...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4535790

[goforit]

7. Wow ...you've got a point. Also they don't wantya to know the collusion mtg with Big OIL.

[pscot]

4. Tone deaf

Lke the man said.

[machI]

5. My first thought was

Was General Motors 'told' to remove the public's ability to track the plane?

I can see a few politicians not wanting the public to know a big corporation was flying public servants around on their jet.

[Uncle Joe]

6. That is an interesting take on it, I believe you may be on to something.

I guess we should pay close attention to any Congress-critter supporting this proposition, I would view that as a red flag.

[wtmusic]

8. No honest, those underage girls in the Dominican Republic

help make quality GM parts...:shrug: