Mary Fackler Schiavo, J.D., is the former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation, where for six years she withstood pressure from within DOT and the Federal Aviation Administrationas she sought to expose and correct problems at the agencies. In 1997, after her stormy tenure at the DOT, Schiavo wrote Flying Blind, Flying Safe, which summed up her numerous concerns about the FAA's systemic flaws...
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