"LaHood, whose agency oversees the FAA, said that public comments ran '99.9 percent' in favor of making such information accessible.
'I think all of this information ought to be made public. . . . We're going to, you know, make this information as public as anybody wants it,'"Anybody? Who wants this?
This could actually be useful data, as the January incident demonstrates that the terrorists have a new tool: flocks of geese.
"I mean, here they just released all of these CIA files regarding interrogation, and . . . the optic of us trying to tell people they can't have information about birds flying around airports, I don't think that really quite comports with the policies of the administration,"
Right, now that we have important useful information, why not release unimportant useless information?
It's not so much that it's being released that bothers me, it's that they were COLLECTING THIS DATA IN THE FIRST PLACE. And to top it all off, it was secret!
"Shh, we can't let the people know about the kamikaze geese!"
Well, all in all, I think this will be an important step in making sure that everybody knows where the birds are flying into airplanes. Hopefully, years from now we'll look back on this and say "I am so glad we new about the flocks of pigeons divebombing 727s." A new era is born, as we enter the Birds-flying-into-passenger-aircraft-awareness age.
Godspeed, avian creatures.
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