Nasa’s discomfort with the study it paid for appeared to arise partly from the differing approaches of engineers who run nasa and the federal aviation administration and the social scientists who conducted the survey.
But representative bart gordon democrat of tennessee and chairman of the house committee on science and technology who extracted the promise from dr. Officials have said that the reports in the survey were not sufficiently detailed to be useful. Million program in a format that made it difficult if not impossible for outsiders to analyze in search of trends presenting the reports as documents rather than spreadsheets. Krosnick a professor at stanford who helped with the survey design said in a letter to the science committee on dec. Nasa on monday released an intentionally scrambled partly deleted version of the safety data it gathered from interviews with airline pilots making good on a promise to congress to make public information that it said earlier this year would shake public confidence in the airlines and threaten their commercial interest.