Congress worried air safety data destroyed

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional committee ordered NASA on Monday to more quickly turn over records on a study the agency conducted on airline safety, fearful some data may have been suppressed or destroyed to protect the industry.

"We are directing NASA to halt any destruction of records relating to the project, whether in the possession of the agency or its contractors," Rep. Bart Gordon, a Tennessee Democrat and chairman of the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee, said in a letter to NASA Administrator Michael Griffin.

Gordon said NASA had made "repeated representations" to committee staff that the "material interests of the commercial airline industry may be harmed" by releasing the study findings.

Gordon's committee requested last week that NASA turn over records related to the study. But Gordon ordered the space agency to accelerate those efforts, citing in his letter an Associated Press report on Monday that NASA had told the lead contractor on the project to return material to NASA and then "purge it from their computers and files."

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If ya got bad data, delete the data. It never happened.

As usual

Why do republicons hate America?

...I wonder if it might have been an indicator of what they're going to do to avoid having an election next year.

don't used accountants and burn all the documents.

no paper trail no evidence no trial.

it didnt happen... and if it did happen me and W weren't there... and we never heard about it until now... and if you check with gonzo, he'll tell you we were with him, but he doesn't remember where... and if you can find dick with his head in his undisclosed location, he will confirm that we were elsewhere, hunting quail, and playing poker with some guys from the neighborhood. in the words of my friend kenny-boy lay, if i'm lying, may i drop dead.

:thumbsup:

Do they go back as far as 9/11?