Two's in
11th Jul 2007, 22:59
The US Government's Office of Special Counsel (OSC), the body tasked with investigating Whistleblower cases, today (11 July) released its report following allegations by a controller that other controllers and management covered up "serious operational errors and deviations" at DFW.
Report here;
http://www.osc.gov/documents/press/2005/Analysis.pdf
Amongst the findings..."A number of personnel actions were taken in response to these investigative findings. In addition to the information provided in its report, DOT OIG provided an update on disciplinary action which is included as Appendix D. FAA reassigned the facility quality assurance manager and selected a replacement. The facility manager, operations managers and supervisors were placed on Opportunity to Demonstrate Performance (ODP) status for failing to abide by FAA national policy for the investigating and reporting of operational errors, individual controllers were given training for operational errors and placed on ODPs for failing to self-report errors, and one controller was decertified for committing a previously unreported operational error. Additionally, DFW was added to the inspection schedule of the new Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service (AOV) which is charged with ensuring the safety of changes to air traffic standards and procedures. AOV conducted a safety compliance audit of DFW on June 6-10, 2005 and gave DFW a very positive review.
Finally, in response to additional requests from OSC, the DOT OIG conducted more in-depth analysis into the examples of loss of separation provided in the report. That analysis concluded that even though each incident represented a loss of separation, they were not examples of near mid-air collisions. The additional analysis is included as Appendix E to DOT’s report."
Report here;
http://www.osc.gov/documents/press/2005/Analysis.pdf
Amongst the findings..."A number of personnel actions were taken in response to these investigative findings. In addition to the information provided in its report, DOT OIG provided an update on disciplinary action which is included as Appendix D. FAA reassigned the facility quality assurance manager and selected a replacement. The facility manager, operations managers and supervisors were placed on Opportunity to Demonstrate Performance (ODP) status for failing to abide by FAA national policy for the investigating and reporting of operational errors, individual controllers were given training for operational errors and placed on ODPs for failing to self-report errors, and one controller was decertified for committing a previously unreported operational error. Additionally, DFW was added to the inspection schedule of the new Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service (AOV) which is charged with ensuring the safety of changes to air traffic standards and procedures. AOV conducted a safety compliance audit of DFW on June 6-10, 2005 and gave DFW a very positive review.
Finally, in response to additional requests from OSC, the DOT OIG conducted more in-depth analysis into the examples of loss of separation provided in the report. That analysis concluded that even though each incident represented a loss of separation, they were not examples of near mid-air collisions. The additional analysis is included as Appendix E to DOT’s report."