Matt Molnar
2008-11-27, 06:18 PM
GM Asks U.S. FAA to Bar Public Tracking of Leased Corporate Jet (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afrKemH3i.2Y&refer=home)
By John Hughes and Elliot Blair Smith
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., criticized by U.S. lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public’s ability to track a plane it uses.
“We availed ourselves of the option as others do to have the aircraft removed” from a Federal Aviation Administration tracking service, a GM spokesman, Greg Martin, said yesterday in an interview. He declined to discuss why GM made the request.
Flight data show that the leased Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV jet flew Nov. 18 from Detroit to Washington, where Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner Jr. spoke to a Senate committee that day and a House panel the next day on behalf of a $25 billion auto-industry rescue plan. [Full Article (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afrKemH3i.2Y&refer=home)]
By John Hughes and Elliot Blair Smith
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., criticized by U.S. lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public’s ability to track a plane it uses.
“We availed ourselves of the option as others do to have the aircraft removed” from a Federal Aviation Administration tracking service, a GM spokesman, Greg Martin, said yesterday in an interview. He declined to discuss why GM made the request.
Flight data show that the leased Gulfstream Aerospace G-IV jet flew Nov. 18 from Detroit to Washington, where Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner Jr. spoke to a Senate committee that day and a House panel the next day on behalf of a $25 billion auto-industry rescue plan. [Full Article (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afrKemH3i.2Y&refer=home)]