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FAA's Aviation
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April 10 2, 2011 - As directed by Congress in the
Airline Safety and FAA Extension Act of 2010, the Office
of Inspector General (OIG) plans to review the Federal
Aviation Administration's (FAA) Aviation Safety
Inspectors (ASI) and Operations Research Analyst (ORA)
staffing at commercial air carriers.
The National Transportation Safety Board also
highlighted this issue in its report on the 2009 Colgan
Air accident, concluding that commercial carriers that
experience rapid growth, increased complexity of
operations, or increased accidents or incidents warrant
more stringent FAA oversight.
OIG audit objectives will be to evaluate the FAA?s
process for assigning Aviation Safety Inspectors and
Operations Research Analyst to each Part 121 air carrier
and to assess the number and level of experience of
Aviation Safety Inspectors, Operations Research Analysts
assigned to each Part 121 air carrier; and to evaluate
the FAA?s use of other surveillance processes to
supplement the inspections performed by assigned
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The
On
February 12, 2009, a Colgan Air, Inc., Bombardier DHC-8- 400,
N200WQ, operating as Continental Connection flight 3407, was on
an instrument approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport,
Buffalo, New York, when it
crashed into a residence in Clarence Center, New York, about
5 nautical miles northeast of the airport. The 2 pilots, 2
flight attendants, and 45 passengers aboard the airplane were
killed, one person on the ground was killed, and the airplane
was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire.
The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the
captain of Colgan Air flight 3407 inappropriately responded
to the activation of the
stick shaker, which led to an aerodynamic stall from
which the airplane did not recover. In a report adopted in a
public Board meeting in
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