Originally Posted by
esscee
The best way forward in order to try to prevent this happening again would be for the FAA to be properly funded and manned accordingly to do the proper job it is meant to be doing!
One thing that would help this is to ban federal employees from taking up paid employment with any company subject to FAA regulation. The number of senior FAA managers who now work for Boeing is frightening. If you are a couple of years from retirement and have a nice, well-paid job with an aircraft manufacturer lined up, are you really going to rock the boat?
This situation is now so bad that Congress really needs to investigate the whole wasps nest, including statutory protection for anyone giving sworn evidence.