GOP on the Brink of Weakening Flight Safety Rules

[Judi Lynn]

GOP on the Brink of Weakening Flight Safety Rules
George Zornick George Zornick – Wed May 4, 10:31 am ET

The Nation -- In March, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) introduced a brief amendment to an aviation bill that will fund the Federal Aviation Administration for the next several years. Shuster’s seemingly innocuous amendment called on the FAA to draw up separate flight safety rules for commercial, charter, and cargo airlines, and imposed several procedures the agency must follow in crafting those rules.

The measure, which narrowly passed the Republican House of Representatives on April 1 and might soon be made part of the final aviation legislation, is actually far from harmless. If enacted it will slow down or stop some common-sense flight safety rules from being created through the various stringent procedures it places on the regulatory process. While it’s not as dramatic as recent GOP attempts to gut environmental protection or regulation of Wall Street, Shuster’s amendment is a telling example of how far the current GOP will go to protect industry interests.

The new flight safety rules that Shuster is trying to slow down would create tougher guidelines for how pilots are trained, and how much rest they must get before flying. The rules are a product of a lengthy campaign from families of a recent crash in Buffalo, NY that proved the dangers of lax federal regulation in airline safety.

On February 12, 2009, Continental Flight 3407, operated by the smaller carrier Colgan Air, crashed into a suburb of Buffalo. The young co-pilot had taken an overnight, cross-country flight the day before the crash and slept briefly in an airport lounge in Newark, NJ before piloting Flight 3407.

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. "No one could have foreseen...."

[Diclotican]

2. Judi Lynn

Judi Lynn

Are they NUTTS????. Everyone with half a brain KNOW that FLight Saftey Rules is one of the most important factors, to make aircraft flying secure and safe... Everyone with just an inch of interst in this know, that if pilotes are tired or not are following the procedures ans saftey rules.. Then you are off to a dangrous place... Even today, with all the modern equipment omboard aircraft, one of the most important factors inside the cocpit, is the pilotes.. If they fail, the aircraft are in danger on really failing horrible, with the posible cost of houndreds of humans...

So I ask Again.. Is the Republicans, in this case mr Shuster NUTTS???

Diclotican

[Judi Lynn]

3. He is a Republican, so we do know he's crazy. I believe beyond that, he's stupid.

Who on earth would believe peopl want to feel LESS safe while flying? This man should be sitting in a padded cell, rather than in the United States Congress.

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[Diclotican]

5. Judi Lynn

Judi Lynn

To me, many repulicans this days, looks like they deserve a looooong time in a padded cell. Or is it just that they nut cases are the one getting to congress this days?.. The normal ones are hiding this out as they tries really hard to survive this madness..

Diclotican

[Demeter]

6. Diclotican

It is a national illness. Nobody knows the cure.

The cause is known, however: corruption and corporate domination of the government by fascists. There is no America anymore. We must hope that some other people picks up the banners of democracy, truth, justice, freedom and opportunity, equality, etc.

I am afraid we will need a very old-fashioned bloodletting before the body politic is purged of its fever.

[Diclotican]

8. Demeter

Demeter

True, you in US have a national illness, called, the pure illness of madness.. And as you point out, domination by government by facsist and coporate, and corruption is one of the reasons of why US are in the bad shape it is today. im not sure what the fix are, to repair it, but as you point out some old-fashioned bloodletting wil maybe do the trix of making this madness go away.. To next time

You in US have been so lucky for so many years, to have a government who are, more or less free of corruption and with honnest politicans, who know the rules, and play by the rules.. US can if they WANT be the banner of democracy, truth, hustice freedom and opportunty, equality and it al..If you want. You have been there, you can be there again.. But the populus in USA, have to work hard and long to get there I fear..

But after the corporate got control over the government, and some are over the law, and can "Play the rules" as they see fit, and not been couth when they do, then the natural case, is to try to do more, and when you have no oppotion to fight your corruption, in fact many of them who you are stealing from, are shearing you along, as a hero.. You tend to be more bold, and to do more.. Its like beeing in the school yard when we was young.. The bully who never got hard time, would just go ahead as before, and was more bold as times goes by, mostly becouse he COULD.. When the bully was confronted, and reactions finaly was there.. THEN he was not that bold and secure again.. What US need, are some with enough power, and money, to really mess up the bullies, and to tell the truth as they are.. Sad to say, no one with enough money and power, are willing to tell the truth, as they themself are part of it all.. And if they did, they might be killed... The few who really did it, like your late president Kennedy, was killed by the "powers to be"..

Diclotican

[Demeter]

9. Exactly

[Puzzler]

4. Let the free market sort things out...

... the more people die on one airline, the less people will want to use it. Simple ;)

[tanyev]

10. Yeah, we can have a two tier system of air travel.

A couple carriers who observe safety regulations for those who can afford a premium price, and a roulette wheel of super cheap carriers for everybody else. Survival of the richest.

[AC_Mem]

7. If they pass this insanity

and a crash is a result, I would sincerely hope that not only the airline industry would be sued by the families, but each and every politician who voted to make the airplane a weapon of human destruction.

If we do not get these republicans out of power in 2012, what we are seeing now is just the beginning.

I just don't understand why the GOP hates Americans so badly. My God, they truly want to destroy us!

Annette
already facing my fears as the waters rise 20 miles away from me here in Memphis. How much help do you really think our GOP Tennessee government is going to offer? It will be interesting to see. I'm betting they want the poor who have no insurance to somehow pull themselves up by their sewage-soaked bootstraps.

[the_chinuk]

11. And for this, they're making it tougher to get on a plane?

Doesn't it seem amusing to you all that they're endlessly tightening rules for getting on planes that have had all sorts of safety rules relaxed?

Call me when they start making planes out of whatever they're making the black boxes out of.