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ABC's lead by Lisa Stark was a preview of House committee hearings into the Federal Aviation Administration. It is an investigation that broke last month with the revelation that FAA inspectors turned a blind eye to lax routine maintenance inspections of the Being 737 fleet at Southwest Airlines. Since then American, Delta and now United have had to play catch-up with scheduling-disrupting checks of MD-80s and 777s. Stark told us that whistleblower inspectors will testify to Congress that their FAA supervisors have been "too cozy with the airlines" putting pressure on them to "downplay problems, soften reports, drop enforcement actions." For its part, the FAA admitted to Stark that "inspectors did fall down on the job in the case of Southwest Airlines" but that a "spot audit found high compliance with safety directives."
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