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FAA admits coverup of safety issues: link
Washington Post said:Federal Aviation Administration managers covered up mistakes made by air traffic controllers at a Texas facility, making it more difficult for authorities to detect safety hazards in some of the nation's busiest airspace, FAA officials disclosed yesterday.
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FAA officials yesterday revealed the results of the Texas investigation, which centered on how supervisors misreported errors at a control center that handles thousands of airplanes arriving and departing daily from airports in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
The Department of Transportation's Inspector General found that managers at the facility were reclassifying errors caused by controllers as mistakes made by pilots,