That’s what two Federal Aviation Administration whistleblowers will be telling the House transportation committee today. FAA inspectors Bobby Boutris and Douglas Peters allege they were stopped from properly inspecting Southwest Airlines planes. Southwest managers successfully went over their heads and told the FAA they could deal with the plane’s maintenance problems themselves.

The Wall Street Journal’s Andy Pasztor obtained the whistleblower’s testimony and comprehensively lays out the problems allegedly plaguing the aviation agency. The most serious charge is that FAA let commercial airlines choose which FAA employees they wanted to perform inspections.  Read Pasztor here.   MB

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