Mike Adams of Y2K Newsire prepared a very worthwhile report -- 21 pp or so -- available to the public on the Y2K Newsire website. It's not a scoop or journalistic coup of any sort, but a a meticulous chronicle of his efforts to obtain corrobrating documents of FAA's claims or posturing of 100% compliance. Worth checking into.

Squirrl Huntr >"<

-- SH (squirrl@huntr.com), November 18, 1999

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Does it cover why the head of the FAA and the president's special advisor on Y2K apparently don't have the combined grunt to get a plane to carry them during rollover? ;)

Wouldn't it be lovely if an airline stepped in and publically offered to put on a special flight for them? Perhaps a Chinese airline? ;) ;) ;)

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), November 18, 1999.

This sound just about how I would have handled newsmen that I didn't want to any information to get to.

I used to be in the Army and thats how it's done children.

.com before .storm

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), November 18, 1999.

Doomers@suck. big time!!

What the hell are you talking about?

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@Tminus43&counting.down), November 18, 1999.

What really disturbs me is the fact that I feel this kind of subterfuge is throughout all of the gubmint agencies. It sort of makes one sick to one's stomach. I wonder how many airline pilots read this forum. Seems to me if I were one, I would tell the airline to stuff it....or at least get the union to strike until the FAA could prove their stated compliance. After reading the article on wireless controls (aviontics) it makes one wonder if the pilot of the Egyptian airline REALLY pushed yoke over the top. Of is he just another scapegoat because he broke from the routine?

Taz...who is staying on the ground and hunkering in her bunker.

-- Taz (Tassie123@aol.com), November 18, 1999.

I work at a gov't agency and we have had many audits,both internal and external (contractors like the one in the story). In EVERY case the audit begins with an entrance meeting and an exit meeting. In EVERY case the auditors provide a draft and final document providing the results of the audit. And this doesn't happen at FAA? This is pure run-around start to finish. I believe the contractor used a checklist for each system they looked at but then they would have to combine the results into some kind of readable document. BTW who is paying them? FAA acts like they have no input or control over a contractor working for them.

-- wondering (wondering@nottoo.far), November 18, 1999.

Oh, yes ... Mr. Doomersuckbigtime: I neglected to mention -- because the rest of us know without having to be told --- that the FAA failed to produce documentation necessary to substantiate, much less corroborate, the BOGUS claim of 100% compliance. Sorry. My mistake.

-- SH (squirrl@huntr.com), November 18, 1999.