Business Week: Unqualified Mechanics Working on Air Force One?NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1999-- Military investigators fear a host of airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. mechanics with bogus certifications from a discredited dis·cred·it tr.v. dis·cred·it·ed, dis·cred·it·ing, dis·cred·its 1. To damage in reputation; disgrace. 2. To cause to be doubted or distrusted. 3. To refuse to believe. n. Florida aviation school may be working on Air Force One and other military aircraft, Business Week reports. In a federal trial that ended May 20, the owner of the St. George Aviation school in Sanford, Florida Sanford is a city in and the county seatGR6 of Seminole County, Florida, United States. The population was 38,291 at the 2000 census. As of 2006, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 49,124. was convicted of fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors said he helped more than 1,800 mechanics, many of them in the military, achieve certification by giving them the answers to the FAA test. An undisclosed number working on the Presidential jet have already been pulled, Business Week reports. The FAA says it will have the St. George mechanics working on civilian planes retake re·take tr.v. re·took , re·tak·en , re·tak·ing, re·takes 1. To take back or again. 2. To recapture. 3. To photograph, film, or record again. n. 1. the test. |
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