Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:40:38 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re:News you want to hear about the shutdown....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 10/10/2013 2:38 PM, mark wrote:
> I was at a rally downtown this morning, here in DC, set up by the
> House Progressive Caucus, and one of the speakers... Nancy Pelosi,
> maybe... announced that, as of this morning, all but 300 of the
> Nuclear Regulatory Commission's employees are now furloughed.
>
> Oh, and so is most of the FAA, so no one is inspecting planes for
> air-worthiness, checking that pilots and crew have enough rest, and
> Boeing's got planes to deliver... and they're sitting on the ramp,
> because there's no one to inspect them.

Aircraft inspections are done by A&P mechanics, who are certified by the
FAA for signing off on the airworthiness of aircraft.  The FAA sets the
standards, and tests applicants for certifications, but doesn't handle
inspection of each and every aircraft at each and every inspection...and
airliners don't get inspections at periodic intervals like your average
private plane...they are handled under on-going maintenance plans as
certified by the FAA at the time they are set up.

So who told you Boeing can't deliver an aircraft because the FAA was closed?

-- Mike B.