I shall simply join readers and shake my head in disbelief.
Unchecked aliens cram flight schools
by Bill Hutchinson
Daily News staff writer
Thursday, February 28th 2008, 4:00 AM
Despite tough post-9/11 laws, thousands of foreign students are training at U.S. flight schools without proper visas or security background checks, government documents show.
“TSA’s enforcement is basically nonexistent,” Bill McNease, a former Federal Aviation Administration inspector, said in an interview aired last night on ABC’s “World News With Charles Gibson.” Revelations that some of the Sept. 11 hijackers were trained as pilots in the United States prompted a crackdown on flight schools.
Legislation was passed requiring the schools to do security background checks and notify the federal Transportation Security Administration. But internal TSA documents found by ABC News indicate the rules are largely ignored.