Saturday, April 10, 2010

College Boosters & Athletic Departments at Alabama & Ole Miss Blocked Flights from FAA Tracking to Hide Coaching Searches & Recruiting Trips

If you click through on this article, make sure to read down to the bottom to see the information referenced in the title. However, Alabama and Ole Miss were not the entities taking advantage of the little-known program that lets private plane owners block their flights from view in the government’s system for tracking air traffic.

To prevent the public from seeing where they fly, all have over the years turned to a little-known program that lets private plane owners block their flights from view in the government’s system for tracking air traffic.

The owners don’t have to meet any test to keep their flights secret. They merely submit a request to the National Business Aviation Association [1], a trade group that lobbied to set up the program on the grounds that secrecy is justified to protect business deals and the security of executives.

Source: Alter Net


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