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Old 22-October-2007, 08:31 PM
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Has anyone read CNN's article on Nasa's latest air-safety survey, and thier refusal to disclose the findings?

First off, I didn't know that Nasa conducted research on public aviation saftey, so I'm happy to say at least I learned something from the article.

But, This doesn't sound good for Nasa PR, despite the fact that the article fails to ask or say why Nasa's findings are so different than the statistics from the FAA. In other words, it doesn't say that Nasa's data is good, but automatically makes Nasa sound evil for not making the findings public. Go figure.

Anyway, most of it read like a "So what" to me, until I got to this paragraph:
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In its space program, NASA has a deadly history of playing down safety issues. Investigators blamed the 1986 and 2003 shuttle disasters on poor decision making, budget cuts and improperly minimizing risks. NASA decided to go ahead with a 2006 shuttle launch and is moving ahead with one this week despite safety concerns by NASA engineers in both cases
Does that infuriate anyone else like it does me? Slander and misrepresentation is apparently okay if you are a multi-million dollar news agency. Bleck.
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Does that infuriate anyone else like it does me? Slander and misrepresentation is apparently okay if you are a multi-million dollar news agency. Bleck.
Yes; absolutely.
But; CNN is not the source of it. It's the AP. The same phrase is used in other national sites such as MSNBC and USAToday.

We need to know, We need to know, We need to know.

Why? Isn't the important thing to know what the numbers mean?
Something that is yet to be compiled when the report will be released.
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This should be NTSBs turf. NASA gets a lot of crap foisted on it. It should be the NSA--and leave one A out.
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Still NASA is involved in incident reporting. Their incident database can be searched online from that page; interesting how many incidents regarding inconsiderate/disobedient people and
cell phones/personal eletronic devices there are....
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