Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Company advised us that the FAA mistakenly released a large amount of ASAP data in response to a FOIA request initiated by the media. Sounds like all airlines industry-wide are affected.
Supposedly no detailed data about the events was released, but pilots may have been identified by name. The FAA will issuing apology letters.
For what it's worth the FAA reports that the media cooperated in destroying the records once advised of the situation.
I thought ASAP reports were de-identified before being accepted into the program, so how would they have any identifying information to disclose? Hmm.....