September 11th; The FAA Administrator Speaks

This is the seventh anniversary of the terror attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington that included the hijacking of four airliners eventually used as suicide bombs, the first time we all learned that sitting back and hoping for the best as passengers or crew was no longer an option. Air travel everywhere on the globe would never again be the same.

We remember the 3000 plus people who perished in the towers, the Pentagon and in a small grassy field in Pennsylvania on 9/11, as well as the 4,100 plus U.S. service men and women who have died as a direct result of those attacks.

I invite you to take a minute and read a speech given by then FAA Administrator Jane Garvey just a few weeks after the attacks. I found it worth the time to look at what this lady had to say seven years ago, as well as the plans she outlined for the future of aviation.

Compare Garvey’s plans to what has been accomplished to improve our industry since she spoke. Then compare Garvey’s plans and those results with the vision of our current Administrator Bobby Sturgell. 

It’s pretty clear the current agency is like a ship adrift without a captain, a problem that won’t be solved until January 20th at the earliest.