

Pressure applied by Congress forced NASA to turn over the report









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RE: You've got it backwards
By Doormat on 1/2/2008 10:43:04 AM , Rating: 2
Because without the confidentiality agreement that this data was collected under, the information would have never been obtained.

That is, had the pilots and everyone else who contributed known that the data would eventually be released to the general public they would have never volunteered the information in the first place.

Now that that trust has been destroyed, hope for projects like this in the future that rely on confidentiality agreements between government agencies and folks who would otherwise contribute information is now zero.

And comparing this with Cigarette makers is completely preposterous - last I checked flying wasn't hazardous to your health. It seems you're the one who is smoking something.

RE: You've got it backwards
By smitty3268 on 1/2/2008 9:10:59 PM , Rating: 2
Please. Are you saying the government is so impossibly incompetent they can't get any of this kind of information without promising to keep it buried? Why wouldn't a promise of anonymity be enough, like it is for everyone else?

