{"id":260912,"date":"2025-08-03T02:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usdot-criticizes-faa-oversight-skywest-violations\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T02:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T16:11:26","slug":"usdot-criticizes-faas-oversight-of-skywest-airlines-maintenance-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=260912","title":{"rendered":"USDOT Criticizes FAA&#8217;s Oversight Of SkyWest Airlines Maintenance Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261425\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-department-of-transportation\/\"  >United States Department of Transportation<\/a><\/span> (DOT) has criticized the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s (<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"135393\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/faa\/\"  >FAA<\/a><\/span>) failure to sufficiently resolve its oversight of SkyWest&#8217;s maintenance practices. A DOT audit of the FAA&#8217;s oversight found &#8220;key gaps in oversight&#8221; in a number of areas, with the DOT issuing seven recommendations for the FAA to implement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agency failed to adhere to many of its own guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4421,1112,420,3975,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-department-of-transportation","category-dot","category-faa","category-skywest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260913,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260912\/revisions\/260913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}