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Hardcover,
373 pages,
May 1997, Avon
Books
IBSN:
0-380-97532-7
List Price:
$25.00
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Review:
Mary Fackler Schiavo is a genuine crusader for aviation safety.
She dares to share the shocking truth concerning the FAA and
"business as usual" in Washington, DC. This is a
"must read" before your next flight. Take advantage of her
experience to make your next trip safer. Learn about the inner
workings of the FAA with industry and how recommendations of the NTSB
are ignored or delayed, denying improved safety for all aviation
passengers. The book's descriptive chapter titles speak for
themselves.
From the Book's Table of Contents:
Introduction: The ValuJet Tragedy
Chapter 1: Who Does the FAA Work for, Anyway? Not
you.
Chapter 2: The Plane Truth
Chapter 3: The Tombstone Agency
Chapter 4: Business As Usual
Chapter 5: See No Evil: Bogus Parts
Chapter 6: Cash Cows: Where your Airport Money Went
Chapter 7: Relative Truth: CULT-ure at the FAA
Chapter 8: The Second Greatest Thrill
Chapter 9: Who Watches the Manufacturers
Chapter 10: TWA Flight 800
Chapter 11: There's No Such Thing As "Safety" at the FAA
Chapter 12: Airplanes
Chapter 13: Airlines
Chapter 14: Airports
Chapter 15: Straighten Up and Fly Right
Chapter 16: Flying Healthy
Chapter 17: Weather
Chapter 18: When You Have to Fight
Chapter 19: Silencing the Watchdog
Epilogue If We Really Want Change....
Help Yourself
Chapter Notes
From
the publisher:
"Mary
Schiavo, the former inspector General of the US Department of
Transportation, has written a scathing expose of the fraud,
corruption, waste, mismanagement, and dangerous negligence that runs
rampant throughout the aviation industry and its ineffectual
"policing" organization, the FAA. At the same time,
she offers sane and valuable information and advice that will enable
travelers to increase their safety in the air. This is an
essential work by the ultimate insider; a book that must be read by
anyone who flies."
From
the book jacket....
"Mary
Schiavo, the Transportation Department inspector general, was not a
conventional government watchdog. For one thing, she
barked....After [The Secretary of Transportation] insisted that
ValuJet was safe, Ms. Schiavo produced contrary evidence from the
government files. The FAA later shut the airline down....[S]he
has been...a force for safer skies."
--------The
New York Times
"Enough
'tombstones' at FAA; get on with the job....The agency needs
a....review of its methods of enforcing safety....Of particular
concern should be issues raised by Schiavo."
--------USA
Today
"Credit
Schiavo as a vital catalyst for needed changes in air safety....Her
six years as inspector general culminated in what any fair observer
would conclude was an impressively sturdy stand in the true public
interest."
--------Ft.
Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"Mary
Fackler Schiavo should be hailed as a hero....The American people
should give her a hearty thanks for that rare quality she brought to
public service----honesty."
--------The
Phoenix Gazette
"Sometimes
a bureaucracy needs people like Mary Schiavo .... Subsequent
revelations have proved that Schiavo knew what she was talking
about."
--------The
Atlanta Constitution
"Schiavo
is a brave, honest government inspector who has withstood incredible
pressure from the DOT and the FAA, and deserves to be respected for
doing her job."
--------The
Indianapolis Star
"When the
Transportation Department's own inspector general, Mary Fackler
Schiavo, herself a pilot, is moved to warn of 'serious deficiencies in
airline inspections, parts and training and in the air traffic control
system,' Congress, the administration, and the industry should pay
attention."
---------The
Washington Post
"an
incisive primer on what ails the aviation industry and the fed's
regulation of it."
---------Business
Week
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