Reply #81: Even if you knock out the NSTB

[DulceDecorum]

and I see no reason why we should,
that still leaves us with the FAA and the living hijackers.

We KNOW that the FAA is current because we just found out that Dodson Aviation REALLY DOES OWN that Zimbabwe plane that got caught with all those mercenaries on board, just like the FAA said that it did.

Furthermore,
the airports and airlines in question maintain their own records, independent of those kept by that private firm with close ties to the Pentagon which maintains its own mega-database of US flights.

And as it stands, the BTS IS keeping that website current.

NOTE: January 2004 is the most recent data and data are available since January 1995.
Summary Statistics - All and late flights (total number, average departure delay, average taxi-out and average scheduled departure) and late flights (total and percent of diverted and cancelled flights).
http://www.bts.gov/programs/oai/airline_ontime_statistics/

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) was born as a statistical agency in 1992. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 established BTS for data collection, analysis, and reporting and to ensure the most cost-effective use of transportation-monitoring resources. BTS brings a greater degree of coordination, comparability, and quality standards to transportation data, and to fill important gaps.
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BTS' data collection programs for aviation and motor carrier information are authorized under separate legislation enacted when the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) and Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) were terminated. Both of these programs are mandatory data collections. The Wendell Ford Aviation Investment Reform Act (AIR-21) authorized funding for the airline information program from the Aviation Trust Fund, but to date no funding has been appropriated from this source.
http://www.bts.gov/about/

The information presented by the BTS is not THAT easy to discount, eh?
Now, the BTS says that Flight 175 was diverted.
What do you have to indicate that it was not?
Speak up, we are all listening......
Wotchagot?