Politics of aviation safety and a history of related airline disasters.

<body> Independent Prosecutor Proceedings Into Corruption-Related Aviation Disasters Conducted by FAA Inspector Rodney Stich During the FAA administrative hearing at which Rodney Stich acted similar to an independent prosecutor, three additional crashes occurred, each one due to the same safety problems that Stich had reported in writing, for which he recommended preventative measures--which as standard FAA practices were never put into place−and for which FAA management retaliated against Stich for making the reports. Salt Lake City: a Textbook Classic, Proof of FAA Corruption, Crashes, and Deaths During the FAA hearing in Denver, while FAA management and lawyers argued that there were no safety problems, despite the many official reports saying there were, plus the series of airline disasters, a United Airlines jet crashes at the Salt Lake City airport. 43 people were cremated alive. Possibly no other crash had more evidence showing the deadly consequences of the culture, the corruption, and massive unaddressed safety problems. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) conducted the investigation of that crash and issued its official report. It identified the three areas of direct blame for the crash and the needless deaths of 43 passengers, which were obvious and which would be hard to hide. The NTSB left out of the report the culture and problems within the FAA that would result in a series of additional airline disasters, among them being the hijackings of four airliners on 9/11. The NTSB report blamed: The dangerous high sink rate of the captain that led to the crash. The failure of the flight engineer to perform certain duties after the crash. The failure of the flight crew to properly evacuate the passengers. As it often does, this is what the political NTSB board members left out of the report: Stich had repeatedly reported the lack of altitude awareness and was promoting a procedure to correct that problem. But FAA management ordered him to halt these procedures. During the FAA hearing, FAA management−and the hearing officer, William Jennings−claimed that Stich never made any such reports, a false statement proven by the official documents in the 4500-page hearing transcript. FAA management, after receiving a complaint from United Airlines and its pilot union, suspended Stich from any safety functions for three weeks. The reason: Stich had tactfully stated to a senior union member, Bart Stephens, following a fighter-type ultra high-sink-rate approach to Los Angeles International Airport, that his approach technique was considered unsafe. Stich had reported the dangerous high-sink-rate approach of that same captain who later crashed at Salt Lake City. The required corrective training was not ordered, and Stich was suspended for several weeks for having reported the problem at United Airlines. Stich had written numerous detailed reports describing in detail the serious problems with the UAL flight engineer training program, with numerous references to UAL captain who agreed. In response to these reports, aviation safety ignorant FAA-management accused Stich of being paranoid. The (reflecting the numerous written reports by Stich that the flight engineer training program was the worst that he had ever seen and that many flight engineers were not qualified to safely handle the aircraft systems. As it related to the poor evacuation of passengers, Stich had three written reports describing UAL's failure to provide yearly training as specifically required by the most strongly worded safety directives ever issues, and that the airline was falsifying records to show yearly training when it was only done every three years, and then only in part. And it left out the retaliation that FAA management inflicted upon Stich for making the reports. United Airlines Crash into Lake Michigan UAL crash into Lake Michigan due to lack of altitude awareness. That problem had been the subject of several reports by Stich, including a recommendation for specific corrective actions to be taken. As with every other recommendation, and following FAA culture, the problem and corrective actions were ignored.. American Airlines Crash at Cincinnati An American Airlines 727 crashed shortly thereafter while approaching the Cincinnati Airport. The NTSB blamed the crash on lack of altitude awareness. Similar problem to that of the United Airlines crash into Lake Michigan. One reason the NTSB covered up for the deep-seated culture problems within the FAA was to protect itself. Stich, and other inspectors, had reported directly to the NTSB board in the past about the corruption that existed in the FAA and did the universal cover-up, making possible subsequent crashes and deaths. NTSB Cover-Up Made Other Disasters Possible There were many deadly consequences to the cover-up by NTSB board members. These included for instance a United Airlines crash at Portland, Oregon, which was so closely tied to the corruption that was documented during the FAA hearing in Denver that it did the rare step of eliminating the public hearing. Another crash occurred in the mountains near Denver, Another occurred during takeoff from Los Angeles, crashing into the Pacific Ocean. Another occurred during approach to Chicago's Midway Airport. And these were only those occurring at United Airlines, without address those occurring at other airlines due to similar FAA problems. Long History of Corruption-Enabled Catastrophic Events As a result of the widespread corruption in overt and covert government operations, the systemic cover-ups that treat high-level corruption as the "third-rail," and the retaliation against whistleblowers, great American tragedies have repeatedly occurred, and will continue to occur. Harm to the American public in non-violent areas. Harm to people of other countries. Harm to the few people in the United States fighting the high-level corruption in a meaningful manner. Harm in general. Sampling of Early Consequences TWA Flight 800 U.S. Embassy Bombings 9/11 Easily-Preventable Multiple Hijackings These few examples of the horrors associated with airline disasters enabled to occur by documented corruption withheld from the American people. The standard culture of cover-ups in the United States enabled the corruption, cover-ups, to mutate into different areas. In the aviation area, although the continuing series of airline disasters eventually came to a halt for other reasons, the culture continued, and enabled to occur a number of easily preventable airline disasters. The inbred culture created the conditions that enabled four groups of terrorists to easily hijack four airliners within a few hours of each other and kill nearly 3,000 people. One of Over 200 Victims Choosing This Way to Die— Made Possible by Many Enablers in United States Consequences of Corruption, Cover-Ups, And Retaliation Felonies Not Limited to Aviation There were many other forms of victims from the systemic high-level corruption. These included for instance victims of the: Department of Justice prosecutorial misconduct, people being falsely charges with crimes in order to improve the prosecutors' career. The explosion of violent crime related to drug smuggling into the United States, in which CIA assets were major players. Series of financial frauds appearing every few years, with the latest housing and financial implosions surfacing in 2008. Seizure of assets from innocent people. And many other forms. These offenses are described in the books written by insiders. Corruption of the Type Described at this site does not occur in a vacuum. High-level corruption in one area is simply one tentacle of a widespread culture of corruption. And the consequences of that corruption−and the endemic cover-ups−have consequences in other areas. The culture of corruption affects the people and the nation in many other ways, That includes the latest series of financial frauds that has occurred in the housing and financial sectors. Also, the effect of the endemic corruption and endemic cover-ups−major parts of the culture in the United States−that enablers successful terrorist attacks upon U.S. interests. Harm to People Overseas From Culture Of High-Level Corruption and Lies in the United States In addition to the decades of harm resulting from the systemic corruption of key people and groups in the U.S. government, affecting aviation safety, financial, human rights, in the United States, there is the harm from outside sources brought about by the actions of U.S. politicians affecting people in other countries—such as the history of invading and killing foreigners—there are the successful "terrorist" attacks made possible by high-level corruption, and then there are the foreigners who are also victims from the same high-level corruption that adversely affects the American, but in a different form. Remains of a girl—about the age of the 9-year-old Killed in Tucson in January 2011. In criminal law, people are accomplices, and guilty, if they know of a criminal act and fail to report it to proper authorities and also to take efforts within their capability to halt their continuation. And there are endless numbers of accomplices that are complicit in these crimes and enablers of the consequences. Suggestion to people outside the United States. Become familiar with the documented systemic corruption in the United States and show the outrage lacking of people in the United States, and: Help expose the endemic corruption that seem to be acceptable to the American people, and maybe wake them up. Help to protect yourselves against the decades of ham inflicted upon people of other countries by the actions of U.S. politicians—supported by much of the American public. Examples: Serial lying by U.S. politicians to use as a pretense to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, killing tens of thousands of innocent people. U.S. politicians shifting enabling blame from their own corrupt actions that encouraged and enabled four groups of terrorists to simultaneously hijack four airliners, and shift the blame to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan—with the help of a dumbed-down American public that is mostly too lazy to learn the truth. Documentary Books Showing Corruption Among U.S. Leaders and Related Tragedies All of the books are available at amazon.com, in print and on the Kindle, and at many other Internet sites. They bring together the various pieces of the puzzle to better understand the overall picture, and why the same conditions continue year after year. Information on the books by former government agent Rodney Stich Sampling of early books reviews Sampling of complimentary letters/faxes to author/activist Rodney Stich. More information about these books by clicking here. Thanks to the Very Few Who Care Enough Thanks are given to those very very few who have contributed funds to the non-profit organization that helps to fund these exposure activities. Amazon.com Ordering Links Return to www.defraudingamerica.com </body>