JohnBurke

You're not stupid enough to think that the FAA is running around counting pieces of plastic in people's wallets, are you?

The FAA doesn't need to do that, you see. They issued the damn certificates. They have computer records to count the number of certificated mechanics.

You have no idea what accounts for the differences in the numbers. You're far too busy jumping to conclusions and making non sequitur inferences and illogical and ill informed false statements to worry about the actual reason.

Apparently it's very important to you, though one would be hard pressed to tell, given your diversions into unsubstantiated theories and outright false statements.

There have been cases in the past few years of mechanic certificates that were invalidated when the FAA investigated the entity that was facilitating the certification. There are those who surrender their certificates, quit, die, or have them revoked through certificate action. It may be that the FAA simply did some housecleaning in their records. Who knows? Who cares?

You've waffled repeatedly on the subject, most recently asserting that there are too many mechanics. Now you postulate that the lower number of mechanics, while still far too high for you, is cause for alarm. Flip-flop. Flip-flop. Back peddle, and flip again.