FAA reassigns senior managers in office overseeing Southwest Airlines
The FAA has removed 3 senior managers in the office overseeing Southwest Airlines, amid allegations of lax safety enforcement raised by agency whistleblowers and various resulting govt inquiries, according to people familiar with the matter. The DoT's inspector-general has been looking into some of the safety issues for many months, these people said, including lapses by the airline in documenting maintenance for more than 100 of its jets. Other parts of the probe focus on failures to reliably compute the weight of checked baggage and hazardous landing incidents in which one aircraft smacked a wingtip on the tarmac and another ran off the strip in stormy weather. Separate congressional investigations began delving into a number of such operational and maintenance slipups by Southwest more recently. <br/>
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FAA reassigns senior managers in office overseeing Southwest Airlines
The FAA has removed 3 senior managers in the office overseeing Southwest Airlines, amid allegations of lax safety enforcement raised by agency whistleblowers and various resulting govt inquiries, according to people familiar with the matter. The DoT's inspector-general has been looking into some of the safety issues for many months, these people said, including lapses by the airline in documenting maintenance for more than 100 of its jets. Other parts of the probe focus on failures to reliably compute the weight of checked baggage and hazardous landing incidents in which one aircraft smacked a wingtip on the tarmac and another ran off the strip in stormy weather. Separate congressional investigations began delving into a number of such operational and maintenance slipups by Southwest more recently. <br/>
