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Article: FAA Transfers Inspector after Hardline Response to Alaska Airlines Crash.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- September 13, 2002
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By Steve Miletich, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 13--A veteran Federal Aviation Administration inspector who clashed with his superiors by taking a tough stance with Alaska Airlines after the fatal crash of Flight 261 has been reassigned to a new job within the agency.
The ouster of Bill Whitaker as principal maintenance inspector overseeing Alaska Airlines is the latest in a line of reassignments of local FAA inspectors who held Alaska to tight standards.
Whitaker's reassignment this week comes as the Seattle-based airline is moving past special FAA scrutiny imposed on it after the January 2000 crash, leaving ...