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Time to Panic? Airline Safety Survey Results Kept Secret to Prevent Panic.

Paul McNamara writes on the NetworkWorld Buzzblog:

So concerned that the flying public and airline investors will panic when they learn the apparently panic-worthy results, NASA has fought successfully to keep secret the results of a major safety survey of pilots that it was commissioned to conduct.

They’ve even gone so far as to order a contractor to destroy its copies of the survey data, which was collected more than two years ago.

There’s only one way this keep-them-in-the-dark decision could make sense … and that would be if the results of the survey are even more alarming that than the most alarmist among us could imagine.

posted by Fergie @ 10/22/2007 12:05:00 PM