NASA Gives Glimpse of Air Safety Survey

The $11.3 million federal air safety study is only partially being released.

NASA chose to release the report late on New Year's Eve, when the public is distracted by holidays and news organizations are thinly staffed.
"We didn't deliberately choose to release on the slowest news day of the year," Griffin said."

NASA published the findings in a format that made it cumbersome for any thorough analysis by outsiders.

NASA did not provide documentation on how to use its data, nor did it provide keys to unlock the cryptic codes used in the dataset.

The released data was inadequate and "intentionally designed to prevent people from analyzing the rates properly and are designed to entrap analysts into computing rates that are much higher than the survey really shows."

NASA drew harsh criticism from Congress and news organizations for keeping the information secret.