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OSI-95-12R 1 (1994-12-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacksm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Uited States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of Special Investigations B-259621 December 29, 1994 The Honorable Robert A. Borski Chairman The Honorable James M. Inhofe Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Committee on Public Works and Transportation House of Representatives This letter responds to your letter of March 21, 1994, in which you asked us to investigate whether eligible employees of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were abusing their authority to use access-to-aircraft privileges aboard commercial aircraft. Our investigation focused on use of the privileges on the flight deck or in the cockpit of the aircraft. In November 1994, your offices advised us that our findings at NTSB headquarters were sufficient to address the Subcommittee's concerns. Your offices also advised us that in light of an ongoing Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General audit of jumpseat' use by FAA personnel, further OSI investigation at FAA would not be required. In summary, we found that a number of NTSB employees were using access to aircraft on must fly status for various reasons, including travel to training, instead of space available status, as they should have done. To travel under this program, NTSB employees must indicate the space available or must fly status on the Form 7000-5 access- to-aircraft coupons. Apparently, NTSB management does not oversee the appropriateness of which status the employees indicate. Also, NTSB Order 52-A, regarding use of the access-to-aircraft authority, contains no provision for retaining the used Form 7000-5 access-to-aircraft coupon 'Jumpseat is a vernacular term for the extra seat in the cockpit of the aircraft. GAO/OSI-95-12R NTSB Access-to-Aircraft Privileges