Originally Posted by
UltraFan
And what upsets me most is that nobody is even trying to mention the fundamental contradiction between two main FAA missions - promote aviation and provide oversight thereof. It's like assigning pest control to PETA. In this case, just like in many other cases before that, those two tasks collided at full speed with devastating results. I just cannot understand why not transfer the certification and airworthiness tasks to NTSB and leave the promotional mission to FAA?
Congress deleted the requirement for the FAA to promote aviation sometime in the 1990s.