FAA loses One-Third of US Planes

Does the FAA know who owns it or not?

If you fly you know that there is a possibility that TSA security knows the size of the bra in your luggage, has seen you on screen naked or will soon ‘touch your junk’. It’s embarrassing and inconvenient, but it’s their best option right now to make flying safe from terrorism. That’s what we’re being told, anyway.

Maybe a better way to keep the world safe would be to know who owns the planes that take to the sky.

The Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t know who owns approximately 119,000 airplanes in the United States. That’s both commercial and private planes.

The aircraft could all be legitimate, or they could be owned by drug cartels, terrorists, human traffickers, smugglers or just someone’s grandmother.

Since planes were used to attack the United States on September 11, 2001, you’d think that an attempt would have been made by now to get the ownership of planes documented. How hard is it to enter the information into a database and do a sort to find out what records weren’t updated correctly? How many years does it take for someone to realize that if there are supposed to be 357,000 private and commercial planes in the US, and 119,000 are missing important registration information, or have suddenly disappeared, there may be a problem.

The FAA is finally taking action to find out if these planes are still flying or have been junked. All owners of aircraft will have to reregister their aircraft next year as the FAA plans to cancel their registration certificates.
Let’s hope that it won’t take years to figure out what’s happened to about a third of the planes.

Maybe they could hire a few of the unemployed workers in the US who know data entry.