FAA Press Release Analysis
The author of this report has been asked to take a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) press release and analyze it. Rather than just identifying and summarizing what is present, the author of this report is to draw conclusions and analyze precisely what was going on, what was ostensibly not going on and what could have caused all of the above. The basic points to be covered, per the assignment, is the basic results of the analysis (e.g. percentages, etc.), an analysis of the company-owned material and the training issues raised by the list along with associated explanations that justify the same. While the FAA is often criticized and lampooned, their intentions and performance are usually good and their fines are typically extremely justified.
Analysis
The author of this report will first look at many of the individual items in the press release list and will then offer broader conclusions and summaries of what is going on. When it comes to the first item, there seemed to be a mix of excess aircraft parts but some of the cartons (not quite half of them) contained oxygen generators. The second item was similar (and...
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