FAA official replaced...
From Rumours and News:
"Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:50 AM ET
WASHINGTON -- One of the top-ranking safety officials at the Federal Aviation Admistration is being removed from his job amid complaints from airline executives and FAA inspectors about the agency's approach to ensuring airline safety, Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Nicholas Lacey, who oversees 4,500 inspectors and other aviation-safety workers as the FAA's flight-standards director, is being reassigned within the agency and, according to FAA officials familiar with the decision, will be succeeded by Nick Sabatini, a manager in the agency's field office in Jamaica, N.Y."
Read more on R&N.
Can any of our American colleagues comment? Is this an example of a regulatory body bowing to commercial pressure? Or just an over-bearing official getting his come-uppance? Certainly its hard to see how some of the changes going on in our regulatory environment these days contributes to flight safety. There is more than a hint of commercial pressure in this report.
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