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Old 09-15-2008, 12:58 PM
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Splanky
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They will have another program, but it does not say anything about immunity from discipline for those things brought forward. So, people will be hesitant to provide information that could improve safety of the operation. Your information might be confidential from other parties involved in the incident. But it doesn't say anything about it remaining out of managers hands. It might just be that they are intending to run the program the same way as the ASAP program, and I hope that they do. But the info has potential to be used against the pilots.

In the airline I worked for we just recently got an ASAP program for the pilots. Our dispatchers and mechanics had the program before us. So, if something happened involving a combination of pilots and another work group, the other work group would file an ASAP report to cover their butt. The pilots were not able to except for NASA forms. So, the mechanic/dispatcher would make the info available to the FAA and the pilots had potential to be chased down for it.
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