you know there are innocents out there who can't even board an aircraft (because they're WRONGLY on some sort of terror watch list OR because they have the wrong name) let alone PILOT ONE. but these people still get to keep their licenses? one was CONVICTED of terrorism even. how fucked is that?
6 Considered Threats Kept Licenses for Aviation
By MATTHEW L. WALD
WASHINGTON — At least six men suspected or convicted of crimes that threaten national security retained their federal aviation licenses, despite antiterrorism laws written after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that required license revocation. Among them was a Libyan sentenced to 27 years in prison by a Scottish court for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie.
In response to questions from The New York Times, the Transportation Security Administration, which is supposed to root out such individuals, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration suspended the licenses on Thursday.
The two agencies appeared to be unaware that the men were among the nearly one million people licensed as pilots, mechanics and flight dispatchers. They were identified by a tiny family-owned company in Mineola, N.Y., demonstrating software it developed to scrub lists of bank customers for terrorism links.............
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