"Airtech" Sells Hazardous Airplane Parts To Virtually Every Country

By John J. Tormey III, Esq,

To: NATIONS OF THE WORLD - GOVERNMENTS, EMBASSIES, AND PRESS (Please See The Distribution List Below). Dear Your Excellencies, And Other Honorable World Citizens:

I trust that each of you will remember my prior and detailed memo to you by fax, e-mail, and mail, dated Sunday, March 23, 2008, entitled "Defective Airplanes And Parts Potentially About To Flood The Market".
You will find another copy of my blog entry which thereafter posted that group letter to you, entitled "World Party", as a March 28, 2008 blog entry, at the following Internet URL:

http://ejectsturgell.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

Well, I am very heartsick, and angered, to now report to you, that my prediction apparently came true, in at least one documented case. I am very concerned that more such similar cases may follow. You should be similarly concerned, too.

While I realize that some of you may have seen the above-cited, below-quoted CBS News article, some others of you may have not yet seen it. And I believe that as a human being and as a world citizen, I cannot afford to take that chance that you have not yet seen it. Even though I thankfully have no connection to the aviation industry other than as a staunch critic, I am disgusted and embarrassed by the below-discussed account of alleged corporate fraud which put human lives at unnecessary and unacceptable risk. Perhaps yours. Perhaps mine.

The below article reports that one of the largest suppliers of materials used in the production of composite parts for aircraft, a company named "Airtech", is alleged by United States Army investigators, after a 4-year investigation, to have sold "sub-standard materials to virtually every aircraft manufacturer in the world". The offending sales occurred from 1997 through 2005. We must now wonder what types of sales are taking place in Year 2008, as they have likely yet to be investigated. My group, Quiet Rockland, will make sure that they will be investigated. Could those in your country, those in your government, have already bought these parts and planes?

You see, here in the United States of America, we have a temporary problem. Our United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), is run by a bunch of soul-less criminals - the leader of which is a failed Acting Administrator named "Bobby" Sturgell whose mom used to work as a personal secretary to none other than the late FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover. See: http://www.TheHappyHarbor.com According to the below CBS news account and letter from Congressman Oberstar, Head of the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the FAA performed a perfunctory (that is, illusory, or "pretend") one-month investigation of the same Airtech matter that the U.S. Army investigated for four years. Yet the FAA "investigation" quickly "found no wrong[-]doing" and considered the matter "closed".
Remember, again, please, that our FAA, is (temporarily) run by criminals. Yet that fact already likely affected your life, the lives of your neighbors, and the lives of your countrymen and countrywomen. My life too.

Our FAA rubber-stamped Airtech's misconduct because there was money in it, for both of those entities - Airtech, and FAA. FAA management are political hacks who will be out of office by next year. They are right now desperately clawing to cash-out into the civil private sector. At your expense. At my expense.

In this Airtech matter, FAA management and Airtech laughed with derisive contempt - at me, at you, and at the world's citizens. All the while, from at least 1997 through 2005, Airtech, now with FAA's knowing complicity, sold dangerous aircraft parts all over the world. These aircraft parts were possibly sold to airlines located within your very own country. Your countrymen and countrywomen might be riding on airplanes containing and using those dangerous parts right now. For that matter, YOU might even be riding on an airplane containing these dangerous Airtech-sold parts, while you are reading this letter on a BlackBerry or an iPhone 35,000 feet in the air. Or perhaps you will catch a flight tomorrow after reading this letter. Or perhaps you will decide to cancel it pending further inquiry.

The massive response which I expect to receive to this letter, like last time, may not allow me to respond to individual inquiries about it. Please understand that, if you can. You see, I now fight the FAA every day of my life in the interests of airline safety, and I have more such causes and items to engage. However, I urge you to please review the below Internet link, review the CBS news story, and review the scanned "Word" document copy of the June 5, 2008 letter from Congressman James Oberstar to Inspector General Calvin Scovel. Mr. Oberstar is a good man. Although Mr. Scovel's response to the June 5 letter remains to be seen, I can in the interim vouch for Congressman Oberstar as a man who, unlike FAA management, is himself vitally concerned about aviation safety, like I am.

I hope and pray that you are, too:

Internet Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/05/cbsnews_investigates/main4158308.shtml

See also: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/22/eveningnews/main4120978.shtml

Call for DOT to Investigate FAA

June 5, 2008

(CBS) CBS News Investigative producer Michael Rey wrote this story for CBSNews.com.

The Chairman of the House Transportation Committee sent a letter today raising questions about an FAA investigation into Airtech International, a major supplier of materials used in the production of military and civilian aircraft.

CBS News reported on May 22nd that Army investigators alleged that Airtech has sold sub-standard materials to virtually every aircraft manufacturer in the world. Airtech denied the allegations to CBS quoting an FAA investigation which found no wrong doing and considered the matter "closed."

"I have serious questions as to how two investigations into identical allegations could result in such divergent conclusions," Chairman James Oberstar (D-MN) wrote in the letter dated June 5th to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation. In other words, the Committee is wondering why the four-year Army investigation alleged fraud and the subsequent one-month FAA investigation found no illicit activity.

<http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/JLOLettertoIGScovel.pdf> House Transportation Committee Chairman James Oberstar's Letter Oberstar added, "I request that you reassure the Committee that FAA's conclusions are based on the best evidence available and that the traveling public is not being put at risk as a result of the alleged fraud."

Again, I wish you all safe travels. Please help make this a safer and better world. Again, please send a friend my letter.

Respectfully, John J. Tormey III, Esq. Quiet Rockland Pearl River, Rockland County, New York United States of America

cc: ALL U.S. SENATORS, ALL U.S. REPRESENTATIVES, THE GAO, OTHER FEDERAL OFFICIALS, STATE OFFICIALS, COUNTY OFFICIALS, TOWN OFFICIALS, LAWYERS, CITIZENS, BUSINESSES, GROUPS, NEWS MEDIA, LAW ENFORCEMENT, CLERGY, EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS, OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES; OTHER U.S.-FRIENDLY COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, EMBASSIES, AND WORLD MEDIA; AND FAA, USDOT, I.G., AND NASA PERSONNEL.
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Washington, DC 20515
June 5, 2008

The Honorable Calvin L. Scovel, III Inspector General United States Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. West Building, W70-300 Washington, DC 20590

Dear Mr. Scovel:

On May 22, 2008, CBS News reported that Airtech International Inc. ("Airtech"), one of the largest suppliers of materials used in the production of composite parts on commercial and military aircraft, committed fraud on "every aircraft manufacturer in the world" between 1997 and 2005. The news report cited a memorandum, drafted after a four-year joint investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Command (hereinafter "Army") and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service ("DCIS"), which recommended that action be taken against Airtech to protect Department of Defense interests. The Army criminal investigator wrote, "In my career investigating allegations of fraudulent acts against the DOD, seldom have I come across a company with such brazen disregard for the safety of soldiers and civilians as well as for the sanctity of laws, rules and regulations."

Subsequent to the Army's investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA") independently embarked upon its own investigation. On October 20, 2006, the FAA sent a letter to Airtech, advising the company of its intent to investigate allegations of Suspected Unapproved Parts. One month later, on November 28, 2006, the FAA concluded that no violations had occurred and advised Airtech to, "consider this matter closed."

I have serious questions as to how two investigations into identical allegations could result in such divergent conclusions. I request that you reassure the Committee that FAA's conclusions are based on the best evidence available and that the traveling public is not being put at risk as a result of the alleged fraud.

Please provide a report to the Committee which includes responses to the following questions:

1. What process did the FAA use to coordinate its investigation with the Army and DCIS?

2. Is it common for investigating agencies to separately conduct investigations into the same set of criminal allegations?

3. What, if any, different information or sources did the two investigations access that led to the conflicting conclusions?

4. Were FAA's efforts to investigate the allegations sufficient to verify whether the allegations of Suspected Unapproved Parts were true?

5. Is there any evidence that Airtech's products have been failing at rates that are higher than normal?

If you have any questions regarding this request, you may contact Leila Kahn with the Committee's Oversight and Investigations staff at (202) 226-4697.

Sincerely, James L, Oberstar, M.C. Chairman

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