Transcript of Hearing 12/12/97 - TWA Flight 800 Investigation

12691The next thing, Mr. McSweeney, that I wanted234to cover is basically thejust a little bit earlier,public comments.–– we had talked about itwhich was the FAA solicited5678Could you give us just an overview from yourpoint of view personally of what you were attempting todo by asking the questions in terms of -- you probablyfelt that you would get both technical information and910opinions.little bit?Could you just, you know, clarify that a11AWell, when we issued the notice to get12comments on the NTSB recommendations we had several13objectives.First was we wanted to obtain answers to1415specific questions.the notice.Those specific questions are in16But,we also wanted to frame as best we could171819a background of history so that when those questionswere answered there was some framework around which wewould get those answers.20so,we also included things in our notice of21what we felt the published information was on fuel22properties,what the FAA had done in the past about23explosion hazards,past activity in nitrogen inerting24by the FAA,complete history to what we had of civil25and military accidents,and we realized we would getCAPITAL HILL REPORTING, INC.(202) 466-9500