I hope he understands that in this new role, public safety, not industry connections or quid pro quo for Trump, is paramount. The problem with Trump crony pics is that trust that the primary mission will be undertaken with integrity is always in doubt. The FAA has to be more than a rubber stamp for Boeing or Delta or any air industry. It's the public's safety monitor for all in air. Please make that job one, Mr. Dickson, instead of your golden parachute.
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Thank you God - whomever prompted Trump to finally do something for his fellow Americans deserves to be given the Medal of Honor. Can we hope that this same White House miracle worker will make further changes in the Kindergarten group called 'the President's Cabinet'? I'm not hoping for re-election here: booting Trump out of the Oval Office is the ultimate choice, however in the mean time air travel must be made safe with or without Boeing.
I no longer blame Trump, alone, for what he does and/or fails to do, for he is a sick man—very, very sick. And it's sad—very sad for the country and for the planet. His inability to distinguish between the need to attend to important problems or trite grudges is evidence of his inane perception of reality.
When not watching television, sleeping, or golfing, Trump spends much of his wakeful time writing hateful and insulting tweets, most recently against a deceased national hero. The tweets cannot be heard by the former Republican Senator and POW, and so can only be meant to either: complicate the grief suffered by his widow and children or increase his own stature as the draft-dodging, so-called president who achieved his position suspiciously. He threatens his alma-mater with a law-suit if they publish his class-standing, but publishes McCain's. Would anyone other than an idiot think he could bolster his image via such mean-spirited machinations?
A president worth his salt would have appointed a qualified permanent head of the FAA long before now—if not before the Lion Air disaster in October, then certainly before the Ethiopian Air disaster. Mr. Trump is partially culpable through negligence of duty for these incidents. Many government posts remain empty due to the same dereliction of duty. In the business world he would have been fired by now.
God speed to George Conway and to Mueller and his team. We need more like them.
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It appears it takes some form of emergency event for Trump to realize the government needs to be staffed with qualified people, otherwise we get "acting" heads. In this case I guess Mick Mulvaney had to take a pass on another part-time role for him.
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I still can't believe Trump was toying with the idea of nominating his personal pilot.
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It appears to take a tragedy for common sense and the need for professionalism to "trump" nepotism and political considerations. The best and most experienced person needs to head up this and all government agencies responsible for the public's health and safety.
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Trump named
Trump named Steve Dickson, an Exec of Delta, to become head of the F.A.A. aviation industry oversight agency. Maybe Mr. Dickson is the right guy for the job as he proposed that the national air traffic control system should be privatized from F.A.A. oversight. Boeing is one of America's most important industries. Something happened with their new MAX8 Boeing 737 jets, and now all countries have grounded those planes since their second tragic crash last week. The F.A.A. deemed they were safe to fly in the U.S. and the MAX8s weren't grounded. Let's hope that a Fox won't be guarding our aviation industry henhouse.
@Nan Socolow
I believe you misread the article. It states that Dickson wrote an op-ed about the proposal to privatize the air traffic control system saying it was "a bad idea for many reasons". Trump is the one who supports that idea.
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@Nan Socolow You missed a couple of points. Dickson did not propose that the ATC organization be privatized - in fact he wrote an OpEd saying it was a bad idea. 737 Max has been grounded in the US. Boeing is not an industry, they are a manufacturer (although they do have their own finance organization - the Export/Import bank).
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Bottom line for this voter: when Trump endorses anyone for a gov’t position having to do with safety, my knees start knocking.
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I would have felt better if had picked someone other than a stick and throttle pilot. Someone not accustomed to saying “Yes, sir”.
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Not everything is a conspiracy people......had had to choose someone and he did.
The man is qualified.
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The corruption in this country is staggering. How can people, forget about having confidence in the system, survive?
Sounds like trump has run out of unqualified friends, relatives and reality tv players to nominate. Now he has to find qualified professionals. I wonder if he’s given trump a loyalty pledge or kiss his ring in some other fashion. Seems to normal to be true in trump land. Any pictures of this guy wearing a cowboy hat in an inappropriate place? Does he live or golf in a trump property? This is just too normal to be true.
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A man of integrity is a new flavor for this Administration. Keep it up!
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One might hope and pray that Trump is the vaccine that finally inoculates Americans from the idea of ever again voting a businessperson into political office. What a disaster this has turned out to be.
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Stephen Dickson sounds eminently qualified to run the FAA. The question is why the FAA had had an acting head for so many months. It apparently took a crisis to get people to act. The acting head had neither flight or engineering experience and was a poly sci major.
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So now there's a direct path from the incompetence of this administration at, well, administrating, to lives lost. Does this mean that when you don't believe regulation is important or beneficial that you might do a bad job at regulating?
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I'm no fan of Trump, but this guy does seem like he's qualified. For one thing, he rejected the idea of privatizing the FAA and it looks like his training, experiences, and skills are in line with the job. If he hired someone from Lockheed or Boeing, that would be different. He was on the using end of the plane business.
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@Kurtis E
one can be certain that the agency will be run for the benefit of the airline industry rather than the flying public
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@charles hoffman
I hope your comment is due to the current state of mind in the country - called negative. I think Mr. Dickson is fully qualified for the position. Corruption is out of control in this administration, however one must keep in mind that corruption and capitalism run together, so it's not going to go 'away'. We can only hope that this man has higher morals than those he'll meet in and around the halls of the White House.
look at the bright side---he can read and write and is not the target of a criminal investigation.... things looking up in trump world.
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Wait! Isn't this like appointing the fox to guard the hen-house?
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He should have appointed Sully.
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Well, at least he’s a better businessman than Trump ever was - his airline bought out five others during W’s Great Recession, while the President was kept running between Federal Bankruptcy Court, Camden, NJ and Federal Bankruptcy Court, NYC. Trump Shuttle, formerly a highly profitable division or Eastern Airlines managed, after Trump turned his 727s into overpriced luxury liners, was sold to US Air after losses threatened Donald with personal bankruptcy.
He should feel right at home defending Boing, with coal company executives “protecting” the environment and oil types doing the same for federal land.
I wonder who Trump’s going to appoint to the Department of Agriculture to say human-caused climate change had nothing to do with the Midwest floods, which the Times reported Tuesday killed dozens of “baby calves” along, I guess with baby kittens, baby puppies and baby ducklings.
(Sorry, but around this time of year, baby cattle may be newborn calves; early arriving kittens and pups “unweaned” but the copy editors at the “epicenter” of the paper, working on the roof, overlooking the Port Authority bus terminal, I guess, are getting into redundant repetition of things. Too much carbon monoxide?)
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How about picking someone who was not an executive of a major airline? Like maybe an airplane safety specialist? How about Sully Sullenberger? The pilot who landed the plane in the Hudson. He’s an aviation specialist I understand. He’d be the perfect head to the FAA. When will we ever learn?
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Sadly, at this point being offered a position by Trump besmirches the candidate's reputation and character.
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No one can claim that Trump is inconsistent. When an opportunity presents itself, always hire the fox to guard the hen house.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we no longer have a government representing our interests.
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Isn’t what we have been discussing through all this? A former executive of an airline that is overseen, examined, and if need be, fined and disciplined by the FAA, is nominated to be the head of it.? But that’s the way the Trump administration works I guess
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I’m a glass half full kinda guy... at least he didn’t appoint his bodyguard; or his caddy; or Donald Jr.; or a young, second tier talking head from Fox ‘News.’
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What is it they say? Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result? Trump continues to appoint industry people to be the watchdogs of the industries they've been (and are) beholdend to. I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E.
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The headlines today all have todo with lax oversight- Boeing’s 737, PGE’s negligence, Deutchbank’s dubious loan approvals to Trump, and the inhability to regulate social media, we gave up on guns after Sandyhook. The ‘ideology’ of small government and deregulation is an excuse for the powerful to go unchecked, as we become an international pariah of reliability and QA/QC
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This is what they mean with the phrase "business friendly"? That finally makes sense to this man's cynical mind.
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Another case of the fox guarding the hen house. 2020 can not get here soon enough!
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I have zero confidence in anyone appointed by this administration. It will take decades to undo the damage it has done to government agencies, out international reputation and faith in government itself.
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Isn't this like closing the barn door after the horse got our?
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@Ellen
correction - out, not our.
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Was a Boeing executive not available??
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Now that he works under Trump, I wonder whether his views on privatization will change.
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Another airline executive to regulate the airlines. That seems to be working well.
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I know industry capture is bad at all, but this is a heck of a lot better than Trump’s personal pilot being head of the FAA.
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Why on earth any other country would trust a US “regulator” without checking for itself is beyond me.
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This is a far, far better choice than Trump’s personal pilot!
And the fact that he went against Trump’s idea of privatization for the agency is a plus as well.
Here’s hoping that for once Trump hasn’t chosen yet another swamp critter!
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Absolutely tone def. The Boeing crashes on everyone’s mind and this is your answer. Not a day goes by without some Trump non-sense.
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I’m always suspect of any Trump choices to fill positions. But, I think, this could be an exception. This candidate has a very impressive resume for the job. Let’s hope!
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Once again, consumer safety is co-opted by corporate greed. But why would we dare to expect more?
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There is simply. no. bottom. The self-dealing of the Trump Organization is being successfully spread to all the major industries in the nation.
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I cannot trust any Trump appointee since it's become clear that the primary job skill Trump looks for is personal loyalty. Not competence, not knowledge of the industry -- everything is secondary to the candidate's willingness to go before a microphone and chant "No collusion!" None of these people can be trusted. None should be allowed in our government.
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How about that?! Another important government agency managed by an acting head. Whodathunk that could happen in the Trump administration?
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@Dr if Some indication that Cadet Bone Spurs actually believes "Acting" is indeed acting. Aides afraid to explain it to him.
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Has that former Delta Airlines executive and all of her/his family members (including 2nd cousins, etc.) completely divested any and all financial interest in all airlines and in any and all businesses that help manufacture or service aircraft or airport or airline, or any part thereof? This would include drones of all types and any air-spacecraft.
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Good choice, experienced with knowledge of the industry, about time.
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The Fox guarding the chicken coop, all at 30 thousand feet. What could possibly go wrong ?
Sad.
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Surprisingly, he seems like a decent pick. The fact that he had worked and recently retired from a company with experience is a career interest and the escalating situation requires a response.
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Also, Delta has not flown any 737 Max Jets so far. They fly older aircraft longer and have a good safety record.
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The wolf will be guarding the henhouse.
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Hm, wonder what stock he could possibly hold?
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If you say you didn't immediately think this was just another hire by Trump of a company person to police that same company, you are lying.
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@B.R. Indeed, I did; but on more consideration, I think he might well prove to be a good choice.
Maybe I'll be proven wrong; it's happened before.
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"He is a former Air Force officer, Air Force Academy graduate and F-15 fighter pilot . . ."
I like what I read and am impressed with his strong credentials and him being "extremely well regarded" and a "man of great integrity." I think his training as an F-15 pilot will come in handy amidst the grueling Senate confirmation hearings.
I frankly see this man as a beacon of hope, calm and reason, against an unsettling and turbulent past 6 months.
As one other commenter poignantly stated, I too believe Stephen Dickson could be "the real deal". I am hoping he will be "The World's Most Trusted F.A.A. Chief."
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Why not trump’s private jet pilot? I am jus waiting.
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Another conflict of interest appointee. I guess we can count on less regulations for Delta.
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@LouiseDelta does not fly ANY Max8 or 9'. They are more partial to Airbus. If anything this is an outstanding impartial pick.
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@John At this point I agree. Clearly the 2020 campaign is underway - wiser heads are now calling some of the shots. They are a huge minority in the White House.
Of course? Is this a nightmare I’m having? Please wake me up.
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Looks like a good pick on the surface.
People who truly understand the issues that need to be addressed will almost always come from the industry. Make the head someone without significant aviation experience, then you are hiring someone dependent upon his staff for making his decisions and this person will have great difficulty when didfferent staff memebrs give conflicting advice.
Coming from industry is ok, as long as all members of his household and adult children no longer have economic interests tied to what the FAA regulates.
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Mr. Dickson sounds like he might be one of the rare good picks by Trump.
He worked for Delta, not Boeing. He has a background as a pilot, overseeing safety and pilot training. His concern should be airline safety first, not Boeing's profits.
Boeing and the FAA made unconscionable mistakes. Hopefully Mr. Dickson knows this, and will fix the problems and restore America's confidence in U. S. aviation.
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Are we somehow to imagine that Boeing bigwigs didn’t vet & OK this nominee?
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You realize the FAA regulates Delta too right? A lot more than Boeing for that matter. Still - no way to get an expert that doesn’t come from industry.
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In all seriousness, the fact that Mr. Dickson is a former F-15 pilot means he is very likely to be the real deal: an old-school, no-nonsense, serious pilot and aviator. I think this is a talented qualified candidate for the role, given his experience flying one of the best military jets and many years also flying commercial aircraft as well.
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@Dale
Fly-boys tend to think they know everything. We don't need arrogance in this leadership position.
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@farhorizons
Stereotypes like this serve no one. I know plenty of fighter jet pilots who are not arrogant Tom Cruise characters.
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I predict hitchhiking is about to make a big comeback. First the Delta Airlines C.E.O. was brought in to destroy all of Amtrak's long-distance service in contravention to Amtrak's Congressional mandate. Now another Delta exec will likely neuter the F.A.A. Exercise those thumbs, folks.
I would say something about having the fox guard the hen house but, given the comparison, I feel it would be unaduly disparaging toward foxes.
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I guess the Trump administration, like most conservatives, doesn’t understand government oversight.
The idea is to have an outside, impartial player overseeing industry to ensure that industry plays by the rules and doesn’t cut corners.
That way people trust that the product has met the highest safety standards.
And if you can’t do that, because you’ve stuffed every oversight agency with industry hacks, people will buy an Airbus.
Saving capitalism from its own stupidity is a thankless and nearly impossible job in a Republican administration.
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@Objectively Subjective
The Trump administration doesn't want regulations on the huge corporations that make huge profits. He cares nothing about the air we breathe, the water we drink, or how much we pay for health care. He cares about the greedy executives who don't want to have to be tied to anything that eats into their profits, even if it puts someone's life at risk.
Should Mr. Dickson disagree with anything Trump says or wants, he'll be insulted via tweets by his boss, and shown the door, even if he is telling Trump that safety comes first. Should Mr. Dickson get caught dealing with his former employer on the side, Trump will pat him on the back and say he's a great guy.
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Something strange is happening with this appointment. Trump actually is picking someone competent. How did this happen?
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Ask any Delta pilot how much or little they respected Dickson.
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Show me your company, Mr. Dickson.
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if nothing else, Dickson shows bad judgment if he accepts a nomination from trump.
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Nothing like Donald to the rescue! This position has been open since January, 2018 when Mr. Huerta retired. No appointment from Donald until 356 people have been killed and Dan Elwell, acting Administrator tried to talk Donald into keeping those Boeing planes going in these past few days. That’s over a year for Donald to do something for the F.A.A.
Oh, my.
We cannot wait until we get a president in the White House who knows what he’s doing! In the meanwhile, fingers crossed no further worldwide damage or tragedy that haunts the United States.
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The Asleep-At-The-Wheel Trump Administration wakes up after someone woke them up to tell them that public safety matters and they suddenly decide to staff the FAA.
What a corrupt, inhumane and and incompetent reign of error this is.
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An airline executive to lead the FAA. Oh well. So far there have been oil executives appointed to lead the EPA and the Interior, a personal doctor to head Veterans Affairs, a surgeon to lead Housing, a pharmaceutical executive to head the FDA, another oil exec to lead State, a son in law to be Middle East advisor and God knows what else, someone who basically knows nothing to lead the Dep't of Energy, someone who doesn't like schools to be leading Education, a Fox news presenter to be the American UN ambassador, a Vice President who believes the world was made in six days. What could possibly go wrong?
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Perhaps the new appointee will not be asked to swear his oath of allegiance to Trump as I would imagine his own personal pilot might have been.
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If only Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger had interest in the job…….he would have been a much better choice. Instead, we have another corporate executive with connections to the airline industry.
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@A.A.F.
Actually Captains Sullenberger and Dickson have very similar resumes.
Both are graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, both are former fighter pilots (Sullenberger flew the F-4 Phantom), both have extensive experience as airline pilots, both were experts in pilot training and safety, and both spent their careers working in the airline industry.
The only significant difference is that Sullenberger retired from USAir as a senior pilot and Dickson retired from Delta as the senior flight operations executive, which gives him the management experience to run an agency with 45,000 employees.
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I guess no Boeing execs were available.
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At least on paper and comments by others, this man should be speedily confirmed.
But we live in interesting times and even before senators have opined, we have one sided negative comments below.
Optics matter - yes, as someone below wrote, if he was a music producer. If anything, coming from a customer side where FAA regulations have an impact, good to have this man.
Come on, just because this POTUS nominated him is not a ground for disqualification.
Let the process work itself.
But there is no doubt, someone needs to be in that chair permanently who has the backing of the Senate.
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The point is that this is like nominating a fox to be in charge of the hen house.
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@Neil
Speedily confirmed by a partisan process, long history of ties to the industry he is supposed to be regulating, and appointed by a president with a poor track record of appointments.
This is poison for the FAA, which relies in large part on its reputation of being the best in the business. Simply, when the next crash happens, do you think people will take the FAA at its word? Will the FAA be able to maintain the public’s confidence in the safety of the airline industry? Will other countries continue to basically rubber stamp FAA decisions as has been done for years, or instead treat FAA rulings with a health dose of skepticism? Why would anyone trust the FAA or even given them the benefit of the doubt in the future? Why do trump and his supporters not see that trust and reputation are vital to an organisation like the FAA? Why are they even considering undermining this trust?
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Mr. Dickson's motives became suspect the minute his name was attached to that of Donald Trump. And, so would anyone else's whether he come from the airline industry or not. Recognition by Donald Trump brings with it distrust. Sorry to those who believe that not everything Trump does is suspect, but his track record is not good.
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I’d really like to know how this apparently well qualified ex-pilot/business leader came to Trump’s attention and whether his greater loyalty will lie to the flying public or whether he was asked to swear fealty to Trump before all else. With two deadly crashes under investigation this is no time for politics.
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What’s his golf handicap? —clearly that’s DJT’s first priority.
In view of recent events that have led many to question the impartiality of the FAA, it is a very odd and worrying choice to have someone appointed from an industry with a vested interest in keeping airplanes flying as much as possible. I guess the French are going to become much busier in regards to crash investigations in the coming years.
Whether we like it or not and whether he is competent or not is largely irrelevant - optics matter.
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Dickson does get points for: “a bad idea for many reasons.”, but then, I had the same response to privatization.....so maybe one point.
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You become an expert by being in an industry for almost 30 years. Would the critics rather a music producer or pharmaceutical CEO head up the FAA? Judge the man on his merits.
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@Jim T
I think I would prefer someone who has spent their professional life on airline safety, investigations, etc. rather than someone regulating a business they ran.
Best that the head of the FAA—
NOT come from the industry that the FAA regulates.
[Especially in view of the very recent history of the FAA, and indeed the compromise of its independence since 2005.]
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We probably should applaud the appointment Stephen Dickson from Delta Airlines to head the F.A.A.
Having a man known for trapping passengers in parked Delta planes on the tarmac for hours is better than having the planes take off and crash nose down a couple minutes later.
How naïve of us to hope that an experienced investigator from NASA or the National Transportation Safety Board would take over at the F.A.A.
The last thing the industry wants is an independent person running the F.A.A.
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Too many commenters here seem to offer nothing but guilt by association criticism of Dickson. Basically, ad hominem attacks.
Just because Trump appointed him does not, by itself, make the choice a poor one.
Is this the level of argument that will sway the base? More to the point, perhaps there's another base.
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@Karl Gauss
Look what happend to Rex Tillerson and so many others.
It will be interesting to see how long he lasts.
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Run, Stephen, run!
He can fly a plane, he can run the FAA. This is the same "logic" that Trump used when he nominated Dr. Ronny Jackson for VA Secretary. Well, Ronny DID tell the world that Trump wasn't fat, so he had that going for him, too.
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We must give credit when due. Honestly, Mr. Dickson is among very few (if not the only of) Trump administration appointees with critical and lengthy experience relevant to his responsibilities.
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@James
Someone from the NTSB would be a whole lot better qualified. Safety should be the issue, not protecting an industry.
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I guess this guy will be okay, given his reputation, but it just seems like all these people are being recruited to oversee the industries where they used to work. It's the fox guarding the chicken coop.
Trump said he would only get the best people - something he never does. The fact that his supporters don't wake up to this shows just how shallow they are. We must defeat the entire republican party in 2020.
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It’s called regulatory capture - where the industry controls the regulation of itself.
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Why is now the time to fill this position instead of over a year ago, before these disasters happened? Did Trump get chastised by someone important to him? He is clearly leaving large portions of the government unmanned and leaderless, per Republican philosophy. There hasn’t been a peep from him about a replacement until now.
Boeing is a mess (check out the story about Air Force tankers delivered by Boeing in February that were full of trash and forgotten tools forcing the Air Force to halt the contract) and I believe the GOP philosophy of removing government completely from oversight of critical industries is directly responsible for it. There are big stories of corruption and blatant disregard for the safety of passengers waiting to be exposed.
I’m choosing to fly Airbus planes now. I never in all my life thought the day would come that I wouldn’t trust the American aerospace industry. In my youth, it was the envy of the world and a jewel in the American crown. A deep and abiding respect for science was foundational to its success but I believe that thirty years of Republican attacks on science and idolatry of profits have finally reached the aviation industry.
Shine a light into the underbelly of this unfolding American catastrophe to force change and a return to the true American values of scientific integrity, engineering excellence, excellent craftsmanship, corporate honesty, and respect for the lives of customers all over the planet.
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@left coast finch
Or else, China will be flying the sky before long. Boeing planes will belong to a heap of mental scrap ready for recycling.
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Well, at least he wasn’t hired from Boeing
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I wonder how his name came up?
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@LaLa Probably that meeting at the WH in 2017 when Trump promised the airline execs to free them from the “regulatory morass” of aviation safety.
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Yeah; good idea for the WH to nominate this airlines exec a few days after yet another air disaster kicks off an investigation into why the FAA continued to approve this Boeing project in the first place. Wouldn't make sense to wait till the smoke from the burning fuselage clears before bringing in an industry insider,
obviously. Nothing to see here...
Don't they even care anymore about how this kind of impropriety looks?
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@James
No!
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Simply another instance of putting a fox in charge of the hen house.
This administration has no shame.
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shame that a position is only filled once people have perished and there's public outcry.
guess that's just the new standard we can expect from conservatives? some lives, policies, positions, whatever are only worth conserving once it starts to hit home?
good grief
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GOP/MAGA voters, every election cycle, choose the faux news approved candidates that will eviscerate the government THEY’RE PAYING FOR! The government that we depend on to live in a safe, civilized society that is able to compete in the global economy.
It’s no different than taking their new car back to the dealership and asking them to break it, because it’s working too well!
We’re going to be left in the dust for at least a generation after this flaming dumpster fire of an administration.
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Also: Martin Shkreli nominated as FDA Commissioner, Lloyd Blankfein as the head of the Federal Reserve, Al Capone - director of FBI. Other top positions already filled by equally competent incumbents.
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@Tumiwisi
Just wanting to say I LOVE your tagline.
Privatise gravity NOW ? Fantastic.
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I'm surprised that it isn't the chief exec of Boeing. Part time at that.
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Wasn't Jared available?
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@gdurt or Mick Mulvaney?
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Gosh. Do you think it's about time the agency had a head? Now that we have a nominee, do you suppose another industry insider inside our government is really going to improve anything? I must say, I have never seen such incompetence at the head of any government. Trump is doing an amazing job. Are all of these folks his golfing buddies?
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Sorry, Donald and staff, but I don't trust you so I need more information.
How did Mr. Dickson come to your attention?
What are your administration's and the GOP'S connections with Delta ?
What is the vetting....both personal and professional and military ....on Mr. Dickson?
Does he want to privatize the FAA ?
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@Baba "How did Mr. Dickson come to your attention?"
Recommended by Donald's personal pilot, seconded by Jared.
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Good luck, Mr. Dickson! Please make the FAA TRANSPARENT in all its aviation oversight responsibilities. I do NOT envy you having to dig the FAA's reputation out from under the recent ire and new mistrust of global regulators, after the Indonesian and Ethiopian crashes.
We expect toughness from you and the FAA regarding adherence to the highest safety standards by aircraft manufacturers.
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@Slann
Since it has not been proven yet that either the plane or the two airlines and their pilots are responsible for the crashes, citing "ire and mistrust" of anyone is social media gone wild.
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@JBC Our country being the LAST to ground the Max8s, and the Ethiopians not trusting us to examine the contents of the black boxes have, indeed, created ire and mistrust (as many foreign officials have stated).
The MCAS system, lack of instructions, lack of warnings, lack of training have all been noted as obvious potential causes of both crashes, NOT TO MENTION, the "self certification" the FAA allowed Boeing to make on critical safety systems of their own products. There is nothing "wild" about logic.
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At least he seems to have relevant experience, unlike many Trump appointees.
Coming from the industry, he may show deference to carriers, but we can wait and see. At least he doesn't come from the manufacturing side. (And Delta, I suspect, is plenty angry at Boeing.)
Boeing is about to find out how expensive de-regulation can be. Had they been properly regulated (rather than 'self-regulated'), it's hard to imagine a plane being approved with all of the problems the 737 Max has.
Let's hope Mr. Dickson can reinstate proper regulatory oversight.
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@Justin
You must know very little about pilots. To think an individual with his background would curry favor with bureaucracies is very far from reality.
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@Justin
Why should Delta be upset with Boeing? Delta flies only the 737-800, not the Max version. I checked that last week when I had family returning from the Caribbean on Delta, on what was listed on their itinerary as "737-800".
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Delta can certainly be very angry at Boeing since it almost succeeded in blocking the airline from buying 225 of the finest, most quiet and advanced aircraft in the world : the Bombardier C-Series, also known as Airbus A220.
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