[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6514-H6515]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  CALL GHOSTBUSTERS FOR AIRLINE SAFETY

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, before the ValuJet crash, an FAA 
inspector said that ValuJet is an accident waiting to happen. It is so 
bad, she

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said, that neither she nor her family would ever fly on ValuJet. But 
after the crash, a DOT spokesman said ValuJet is completely safe. It is 
perfectly OK.
  Yesterday, after a Three-Stooges-type soap opera, the Government, who 
has been speaking out of both sides of their mouth on the ValuJet 
incident, did the following thing. They grounded ValuJet as unsafe, and 
they threw the top safety man, Tony Broderick, to the wolves.
  Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. It is evident after this soap opera that the 
only call the flying public can make is to Ghostbusters, because the 
FAA is out to lunch with a bunch and the DOT has gone for soup with the 
group. Think about it.

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