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NASA Releases Heavily Censored Airline Safety Survey Data

Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit

See also the strange explanation for banning lithium batteries in
check-in luggage (effective today, Jan 1, 2008) because they are a
"fire hazard" but allowing two per passenger in carry-on luggage:

"Lithium Batteries Banned from Checked Baggage as "Fire Risk" 12/31/07
https://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20071231/073597.html

The New York Times - Jan 1, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/us/01nasa.html

NASA Offers Airline Safety Data

By MATTHEW L. WALD

WASHINGTON " NASA on Monday released an intentionally scrambled, partly
deleted version of the safety data it gathered from 24,000 interviews
with airline pilots, making good on a promise to Congress to make
public information that it said earlier this year would shake public
confidence in the airlines and threaten their commercial interest.

The article of which part is. reproduced below was penned by Bernard Levin
for. the Features section of the Times on 21 September 1991. To my mind, it
described the situation at the time and in particular a recent meeting. with
a friend, during which I. for the first time admitted to someone other than
my GP. that I had been subjected to a conspiracy of harassment over the
previous year and. a half.