Shutdown keeps planes grounded, crab fleet docked

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Shutdown keeps planes grounded, crab fleet docked

Economic impact will increase as shutdown goes on
By Henry C. Jackson Associated Press
Posted: 10/11/2013 11:07:36 PM MDT
Updated: 10/11/2013 11:08:05 PM MDT

WASHINGTON -- New airplanes are grounded, investigations of fatal air and car crashes are going undone and scientific studies dependent on government funding have ground to a halt because of the partial government shutdown now in its second week, the Senate Commerce Committee was told Friday.
The economic impact will only intensify as the shutdown continues, affecting everything from the aviation industry to Alaska crab fishermen who may see their lucrative, one-month harvest delayed, witnesses told the panel.

Marion Blakey, CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, said the shutdown already has virtually stopped certification of new aircraft, equipment and training simulators because the Federal Aviation Administration has furloughed more than 90 percent of its employees who work on those issues. Blakey is a former FAA administrator.

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Deborah Hersman, who chairs the government's National Transportation Safety Board, said furloughs have stopped her agency from sending investigators to most air and motor vehicle accident sites, including those with fatalities. Already, she said, the agency has ignored a fatal bus crash that killed eight people in Tennessee, an oil spill site in North Dakota and a small airplane crash in Arizona that killed four people.

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[jakeXT]

1. "I feel like we're putting the Russians to work and American fishermen out of work," Colburn said.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/11/news/economy/shutdown-deadliest-catch/

[RC]

2. And yet we have plenty of money for the wars we start. We have plenty of money for

our own government wholesale spying on the private communications and electronic correspondents of us citizens. Plenty of money to militarize our police and other state and local law enforcement.